The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism — How Democracy Hollows Out
A democracy can preserve many of its visible institutions while losing the civic culture that allows those institutions to function democratically.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism by Henry A. Giroux as our lens, this investigation examines Giroux’s argument that Trumpism should be understood not only through the actions of Donald Trump, but through longer-running economic, political, cultural, and educational conditions.
Giroux connects neoliberalism, inequality…
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