Henry Giroux Quotes
America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared war on all the institutions that make democracy possible. And we see it with the war on public schools. We see it with the war on education. We see it with the war on the healthcare system.
Giroux, Henry A. "Henry Giroux on Zombie Politics." Interview by Bill Moyers. Moyers & Company, 22 Nov. 2013.
The irony was that the Shah was overthrown by a population whom he had tried to control and deny basic freedoms. However, after he was overthrown, the Iranians ended up with a dictatorial fundamentalist Islamic theocracy. They had gone from the frying pan into the fire—from the absolute rule of the civil Shah to the absolute rule of the religious Supreme Leader.
Most historians agree that by “superstition,” Grant was referring to the Catholic Church, which had been steadily growing will more and more immigrants arriving in America. There was great hostility between Protestants and Catholics at the time.
The Republicans in the previous decades had gone so far to the right and were so opposed to anything the government might do, that they could not support anything that might be constructive for the country if it might look like the Government was capable of something positive. They accomplished almost nothing as a result, and the nation was gridlocked.
Henry Armand Giroux is an American and Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. In 2002 Routledge named Giroux as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period.
