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Jensen: U.S. Culpability
Znet Article, April, 10 2002
Robert Jensen
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U.S. Culpability
Jensen: Seeking Pain And Reducing Pleasure
Znet Article, March, 20 2002
Robert Jensen
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In most situations, people tend to seek pleasure and avoid pain, which generally makes sense. I want to suggest that at this moment in history, U.S. citizens need to invert that. If we want to become human beings in the fullest sense of the term, ...
Jensen: Resisting Masculinity: The Importance Of Feminism To Men
Commentary, February, 24 2002
Robert Jensen
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Feminists hate men. How do we know this? Because it is repeated over and over in the media and by right-wing politicians and other so-called guardians of the moral values of the society.
Jensen: September 11 And The Politics Of University Teaching
Commentary, January, 04 2002
Robert Jensen
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At various time in my teaching career -- more than ever since Sept. 11 -- I have been advised by faculty colleagues that I should avoid being "too political" in the classroom.
Jensen: Why I Write (for Newspapers)
Commentary, December, 20 2001
Robert Jensen
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My clearest memory of the 1991 Persian Gulf War is a few moments on a bus when the world melted in front of me.
Jensen: Constricting critical inquiry in universities
Commentary, October, 21 2001
Robert Jensen
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Each year on our annual reports, University of Texas faculty members are asked to list grants we have received, one of the many ways we demonstrate to the bosses that we have been Òproductive.Ó
Jensen: Fast-track: The next attack on democracy
Commentary, July, 23 2001
Robert Jensen
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Conservatives are usually the most strident defenders of the doctrine of original intent, the idea that we should follow the will of the Founding Fathers in interpreting the U.S. Constitution.
Jensen: Rich America, Unfair America
Commentary, June, 13 2001
Robert Jensen
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THE BIGGEST THREAT to democracy in the United States today is economic prosperity. That observation isn't motivated by a desire to see people suffer, but rather is a challenge to the celebration of a certain kind of prosperity, distributed in a c...
Jensen: FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS (batteries not included)
Commentary, March, 19 2001
Robert Jensen
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The University of Texas' commitment to free speech on campus -- which has been a curiously lethargic commitment given the centrality of such freedom to higher education -- has gotten curiouser lately.
Jensen: Inauguration 2001: A Citizens' Oath of Office
Commentary, January, 22 2001
Robert Jensen
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On Inauguration Day 2001, standing on the steps of the State Capitol just a Êfew blocks from the governor's mansion that George W. Bush recently had Êvacated, about 1,000 Austin residents raised their hands as I administered Êa Citizens' Oath of O...
Jensen: Martin Luther King Jr.: America's all-purpose icon
Commentary, January, 15 2001
Robert Jensen
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People who once branded King a threat to the nation will march today in MLK Day parades. Cities around the country -- even places where King battled segregation -- name streets after him and put up statues. People of all colors invoke his name, le...
Jensen: Even Now We Lie To Ourselves About Vietnam
Commentary, November, 27 2000
Robert Jensen
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Bill Clinton has always been keen on apologizing, for himself and on behalf of the nation. He has apologized not only for a sex scandal, but for U.S. support of repression in Guatemala and for slavery.
