Fascism on Trial

Henry A. Giroux holds the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. His books include Insurrections (Bloomsbury, 2023), Pedagogy of Resistance (Bloomsbury, 2022), Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2021), On Critical Pedagogy, 2nd Edition (Bloomsbury, 2020) and American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism (2018).Anthony R. DiMaggio is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University, USA. He is the author of Rebellion in America (2020), Political Power in America (2019) and Selling War, Selling Hope (2015).

• IntroductionPart I: Fascist Nightmares and the Cult of Violence1. Fascism’s Trial Run: Rethinking Education in an Age of Conspiracy Theories and Election Deniers2. Vigilantes on Parade Part II: Neoliberal Fascism, Cruelty and Street Politics3. Neoliberal Fascism, Cruel Violence, and the Politics of Disposability 4. Street Fascism and the Politics of DenialismPart III: The Language of Fascism5. Language and Violence as Spectacle in the New Age of Fascist Politics6. Language and the Politics of Lying: The Big Lie and White SupremacyPart IV: Fascism’s Fundamentalist Passions 7. Fascist Politics and the Scourge of Antisemitism in the Age of Disconnected Present8. Fascism, White Christian Nationalism, and QAnon RisingPart V: Fascism’s Attack on Political Agency and Historical Memory9. The Menace of American Authoritarianism and the Crisis of Political Agency10. Politicizing January 6, White Supremacy, and the Assault on Historical MemoryPart VI. American Society and the Turn Towards Fascism11. The Nazification of American Society12. What Fascism is (and Isn’t): The White Working Class and White Supremacy VII. Education and The Mobilizing Passions of Fascism13. The Nazification of American Education14. Orwell, Totalitarian Politics, and the War on Anti-Racism in EducationConclusionReferences Index

With the world burning and flooding and the political system unraveling, with wars on the rise and many displaced due to storms and violence, with politicians holding our finances and intellectual freedoms hostage, unable to act to reduce hardship or build towards peace, many may feel alone and isolated. Giroux and Dimaggio teach us that this is not so. With insight and anger, Giroux and Dimaggio guide us along the path to continued critical thought and ongoing organizing in the face of attacks on democracy. An essential, hard-hitting intervention! A powerful rallying call!!