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The reading of Assassins of Memory is indispensable for all who yearn to salvage our democracy and contribute to the construction of a more humane world. By coupling a language of critique that denounces with a language of possibility that announces, Assassins of Memory is yet another testament of Paulo Freire’s truism who, decades ago, wrote: “For Giroux, there is no hope without a future to be made, to be built, to be shaped.” -- Donaldo Macedo, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Liberal Arts and Education, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

The reading of Assassins of Memory is indispensable for all who yearn to salvage our democracy and contribute to the construction of a more humane world. By coupling a language of critique that denounces with a language of possibility that announces, Assassins of Memory is yet another testament of Paulo Freire’s truism who, decades ago, wrote: “For Giroux, there is no hope without a future to be made, to be built, to be shaped.” -- Donaldo Macedo, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Liberal Arts and Education, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA We have entered the time of disappearances, where the ideas, concepts, and intellectual frameworks for understanding how the world works and the networks of power that profit from the system that dominates us are being elided, erased from our collective memory. It is, of course, only a small step from the disappearance of ideas to the disappearance of people who hold them. There is no better guide to this premeditated numbing of the mind than Henry Giroux, who navigates through our darkening political landscape with an unflinching moral clarity, illuminating a path toward both reclaiming the truth of our past and salvaging a more just future. Assassins of Memory is an urgently needed antidote to our perilous moment. -- Jeffrey St. Clair, Editor of CounterPunch, author of ""Born Under a Bad Sky"" Henry Giroux’s writing is always lucid and fearless but now it is also urgent. As his new book Assassins of Memory, makes clear, we are hovering on a precipice. The ground that supports us––our own history and its analysis––is being deliberately and rapidly eroded. Without knowledge of the past, we are immobilized and cannot envision a concept for the future. Giroux insists there is still hope, but only if we move quickly and “fight to remember” through education and “moral accountability.” These essays can lead the way to solid ground. They could not be more timely. -- Carol Becker, Professor of Arts and Dean of Faculty, Columbia University School of the Arts, USA Henry Giroux has been lighting the way toward democracy and solidarity by identifying the storm winds aimed against it for a long time. He is an articulate and passionate champion of kids and education. And he does not give up and he does not stop offering us his critical and political insights. Assassins of Memory is his latest contribution to what we need the most: a complicated analysis of the rapidly changing contemporary conjuncture and its political possibilities. It adds yet another layer to our understanding of the place of culture in the current struggles by elucidating how time and memory themselves have become fungible and weaponized. It is vital reading for anyway trying to figure out what’s going on. -- Lawrence Grossberg, Co-Director of the University Program in Cultural Studies and Morris Davis Distinguished Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

The reading of Assassins of Memory is indispensable for all who yearn to salvage our democracy and contribute to the construction of a more humane world. By coupling a language of critique that denounces with a language of possibility that announces, Assassins of Memory is yet another testament of Paulo Freire’s truism who, decades ago, wrote: “For Giroux, there is no hope without a future to be made, to be built, to be shaped.” -- Donaldo Macedo, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Liberal Arts and Education, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA We have entered the time of disappearances, where the ideas, concepts, and intellectual frameworks for understanding how the world works and the networks of power that profit from the system that dominates us are being elided, erased from our collective memory. It is, of course, only a small step from the disappearance of ideas to the disappearance of people who hold them. There is no better guide to this premeditated numbing of the mind than Henry Giroux, who navigates through our darkening political landscape with an unflinching moral clarity, illuminating a path toward both reclaiming the truth of our past and salvaging a more just future. Assassins of Memory is an urgently needed antidote to our perilous moment. -- Jeffrey St. Clair, Editor of CounterPunch, author of ""Born Under a Bad Sky""

The reading of Assassins of Memory is indispensable for all who yearn to salvage our democracy and contribute to the construction of a more humane world. By coupling a language of critique that denounces with a language of possibility that announces, Assassins of Memory is yet another testament of Paulo Freire’s truism who, decades ago, wrote: “For Giroux, there is no hope without a future to be made, to be built, to be shaped.” -- Donaldo Macedo, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Liberal Arts and Education, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA We have entered the time of disappearances, where the ideas, concepts, and intellectual frameworks for understanding how the world works and the networks of power that profit from the system that dominates us are being elided, erased from our collective memory. It is, of course, only a small step from the disappearance of ideas to the disappearance of people who hold them. There is no better guide to this premeditated numbing of the mind than Henry Giroux, who navigates through our darkening political landscape with an unflinching moral clarity, illuminating a path toward both reclaiming the truth of our past and salvaging a more just future. Assassins of Memory is an urgently needed antidote to our perilous moment. -- Jeffrey St. Clair, Editor of CounterPunch, author of ""Born Under a Bad Sky"" Henry Giroux’s writing is always lucid and fearless but now it is also urgent. As his new book Assassins of Memory, makes clear, we are hovering on a precipice. The ground that supports us––our own history and its analysis––is being deliberately and rapidly eroded. Without knowledge of the past, we are immobilized and cannot envision a concept for the future. Giroux insists there is still hope, but only if we move quickly and “fight to remember” through education and “moral accountability.” These essays can lead the way to solid ground. They could not be more timely. -- Carol Becker, Professor of Arts and Dean of Faculty, Columbia University School of the Arts, USA

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Henry A. Giroux holds the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. His recent books include The Burden of Conscience (2025), Insurrections (2023), Pedagogy of Resistance (2022), Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy (2021) and On Critical Pedagogy, 2nd Edition (2020), all published by Bloomsbury.

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