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Jensen: "A world in collapse?"
Znet Article, September, 04 2010
Robert Jensen
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Robert Jensen interviewed by Alex Doherty, New Left Project
Jensen: There Are No Heroes In Illegal And Immoral Wars
Commentary, August, 28 2010
Robert Jensen
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When the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division rolled out of Iraq last week, the colonel commanding the brigade told a reporter that his soldiers were “leaving as heroes.”
Jensen: Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
Book, August, 14 2010
Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle to be a human being.” The journey from masculinity to humanity is found in the candid and intelligent exploration of porn’s devastatin...
Jensen: All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice
Book, August, 14 2010
At the root of the current political, economic, cultural, and ecological chaos is a national spiritual unrest, a fragmentation that has inhibited society's self-awareness and slowed theological progress to a glacial crawl.
Jensen: The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege
Book, August, 14 2010
In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: “How does it feel to be a problem?” In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously re...
Jensen: Struggling to Be "Fully Alive"
Commentary, July, 18 2010
Robert Jensen
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we struggle in the moment with complex problems that defy simple solutions -- problems that may be beyond our capacity to solve in any meaningful way.
Jensen: Think Outside The Bomb
Commentary, June, 30 2010
Robert Jensen
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If we are serious about the abolition of nuclear weapons, we have to place the abolition of the U.S. empire at the center of our politics.
Jensen: The Soul Seeker: A Neuroscientist's Search For The Human Essence
Commentary, June, 08 2010
Robert Jensen
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Welcome to the world of "possibilian" neuroscientist-writer David Eagleman, to life in the space between what-is and what-if, between the facts we think we know and the fictions that illuminate what we don't know.
Jensen: The Collapse of Journalism/The Journalism of Collapse: New Storytelling and a New Story
Commentary, March, 27 2010
Robert Jensen
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There is considerable attention paid in the United States to the collapse of journalism -- both in terms of the demise of the business model for corporate commercial news media, and the evermore superficial, shallow, and senseless content that is ...
Jensen: NY Times: No conflict of interest - with the conventional wisdom
Commentary, February, 13 2010
Robert Jensen
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The New York Times' public editor wrestled this week with conflict-of-interest charges sparked by the revelation that Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner's son had joined the Israeli army. The executive editor of the paper responded with a sensib...
Jensen: Great television/bad journalism: Media failures in Haiti coverage
Commentary, January, 26 2010
Robert Jensen
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CNN's star anchor Anderson Cooper narrates a chaotic street scene in Port-au-Prince. A boy is struck in the head by a rock thrown by a looter from a roof. Cooper helps him to the side of the road, and then realizes the boy is disoriented and unabl...
Jensen: How I stopped hating Thanksgiving and learned to be afraid
Commentary, November, 21 2009
Robert Jensen
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Over the past few years a growing number of white people have joined the longstanding indigenous people's critique of the holocaust denial that is at the heart of the Thanksgiving holiday. In two recent essays I have examined the disturbing nature...
Jensen: Wars and Crises
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Robert Jensen
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The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for the KVRX radio show “The Pursuit of Injustice.â€
Jensen: Can journalism schools be relevant in a world on the brink?
Commentary, September, 16 2009
Robert Jensen
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Journalism schools have much in common with the mainstream news media they traditionally serve. As the business model for conventional corporate journalism collapses and digital technologies reshape the media landscape, journalism schools struggle...
Jensen: Teachable moments require willing learners
Commentary, July, 29 2009
Robert Jensen
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Honoring President Obama's request that the controversy involving a black Harvard University professor and a white Cambridge police officer become "a teachable moment," here's my contribution to an old lesson that we white people tend to be slow t...
Jensen: Life in a Dead Culture
Znet Article, July, 21 2009
Robert Jensen
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When we seek the truth, we try to make sense of a chaotic world. We struggle to achieve what clarity is possible. When we look honestly, we face the cruelty of that truth. But the crucible, the most important test of our capacity to face the truth...
Jensen: Romantic Love?
Znet Article, July, 21 2009
Robert Jensen
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Cristina Nehring's title marks the problem with her attempt to vindicate love and reclaim romance: Love needs no vindication, and we shouldn't be eager to reclaim the vision of romance she offers - dark and dramatic, tortured and tragic, always a ...
Jensen: Getting radicalized, slow and painful
Commentary, July, 16 2009
Robert Jensen
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My transition to political radicalism -- going to the root of problems, recognizing that dramatic and fundamental change in the way society is organized is necessary if there is to be a decent human future -- involved a lot of pain, in two differe...
Jensen: Beyond Independence: We are most free when we are most bo
Commentary, July, 04 2009
Robert Jensen
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Power is typically approached as a question of dominance and submission. Power is marked by the ability to impose or the ability to resist that imposition. This is what some have called “power-over,†which assumes a zero-sum game in which indi...
