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).

Introduction
Part I: Fascist Nightmares and the Cult of Violence
1. Fascism’s Trial Run: Rethinking Education in an Age of Conspiracy Theories and Election Deniers
2. Vigilantes on Parade
Part II: Neoliberal Fascism, Cruelty and Street Politics
3. Neoliberal Fascism, Cruel Violence, and the Politics of Disposability
4. Street Fascism and the Politics of Denialism
Part III: The Language of Fascism
5. Language and Violence as Spectacle in the New Age of Fascist Politics
6. Language and the Politics of Lying: The Big Lie and White Supremacy
Part IV: Fascism’s Fundamentalist Passions
7. Fascist Politics and the Scourge of Antisemitism in the Age of Disconnected Present
8. Fascism, White Christian Nationalism, and QAnon Rising
Part V: Fascism’s Attack on Political Agency and Historical Memory
9. The Menace of American Authoritarianism and the Crisis of Political Agency
10. Politicizing January 6, White Supremacy, and the Assault on Historical Memory
Part VI. American Society and the Turn Towards Fascism
11. The Nazification of American Society
12. What Fascism is (and Isn’t): The White Working Class and White Supremacy
VII. Education and The Mobilizing Passions of Fascism
13. The Nazification of American Education
14. Orwell, Totalitarian Politics, and the War on Anti-Racism in Education
Conclusion
References
Index