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Jensen: Writing Dissent
Audio, March, 08 2008
Robert Jensen
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This interview focuses on how activists can bring dissenting views into the dominant media institutions, the place of institutional analysis in writing, and how activists should approach journalists and editors, and more...
Jensen: Sexuality, masculinity and men's choices
Znet Article, February, 27 2008
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
One of the most divisive issues on the left regarding sexuality has been the sex industry -- prostitution, pornography, strip bars, and similar enterprises. Feminist critics have focused on the harm to women and children in these systems, while se...
Jensen: Investigative Journalism Project Reveals Problem at Core of Mainstream Journalism
Commentary, February, 06 2008
Robert Jensen
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Pro Publica, an initiative launched last month in the United States to help revitalize investigative journalism, is a great idea trapped by the worst aspects of the best instincts in contemporary corporate commercial journalism. The project remind...
Dines: The Anti-Feminist Politics Behind the Pornography that “Empowers” Women
Znet Article, February, 01 2008
Gail Dines
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Pornography’s supporters often claim that critics don’t pay enough attention to the wide range of sexually explicit images available today, especially the material that is said to be empowering for women.
Jensen: King of the Hill
Commentary, November, 07 2007
Robert Jensen
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The object of the children's game King of the Hill is to be the one who remains on top of the hill (or, if not an actual hill, a large pile of anything or the center of any designated area).
Jensen: Masculinity: Where we are stuck
Znet Article, October, 23 2007
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
I am having dinner on a Thursday night in a restaurant in New York
Jensen: Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
Znet Article, September, 28 2007
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
Jensen: We are all prophets now: Responsibilities and risks in the prophetic voice
Znet Article, August, 12 2007
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
[Sermon delivered August 5, 2007, at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Churc...
Jensen: Beyond Advocacy v. Objective Journalism
Znet Article, July, 28 2007
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
In a recent discussion with other journalism professors, I suggested that mainstream journalists have failed to grasp the depth of the crises -- cultural and political, economic and ecological -- that the United States and modern industrial societ...
Jensen: Lessons from the Lal Masjid tragedy
Znet Article, July, 16 2007
Robert Jensen
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- For my first three days in Pakistan, no conversation could go more than a few minutes without a reference to the crisis at the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) compound. I had landed in Islamabad on July 8, and by then it seemed clea...
Jensen: The Reality of Race: Is the Problem That White People Don't Know or Don't Care?
Znet Article, July, 15 2007
Robert Jensen
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The Reality of Race: Is the Problem That White People Don't Know or Don't Care?
Jensen: The Last Last Sunday?
Znet Article, June, 24 2007
Robert Jensen
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As we were setting up for an early Last Sunday gathering, a longtime participant in local progressive politi...
Jensen: Last Sunday: Anti-capitalism in five minutes or less
Commentary, May, 15 2007
Robert Jensen
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[Remarks to the final ÒLast SundayÓ community gathering in Austin, TX, April 29, 2007. For a PDF of all five of the talks in this series, write to rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu .]
Jensen: Impeachment, all down the line
Commentary, April, 25 2007
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
[A speech delivered to the "Impeachment: Our Right, Our Duty" rally in Houston, TX, April 9, 2007.]
Jensen: Last Sunday: Liberal icons and the problem of bipartisan empire-building
Commentary, March, 06 2007
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
Ia political culture defined by a centrist-to-reactionary political spectrum, Paul Wellstone was a breath of fresh air when he brought his progressive politics to the U.S. Senate in 1991. His death in 2002 robbed the country of a humane voice on t...
Jensen: Last Sunday: What to do with/about white folks?
Commentary, February, 24 2007
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
After the initial "Last Sunday" gathering in November, many people made the observation that it was a mostly white audience, and then asked the question, "How can we attract more people of color to the event?"
Jensen: Media reform should include critique of sexual-exploitation media
Commentary, February, 11 2007
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
At a progressive media reform conference dedicated to resisting corporate control of mass media, where many of the participants focus on gender and racial justice, it shouldn't be difficult to interest people in the feminist critique of mass-marke...
Jensen: Saying goodbye to my "Fargo" accent
Commentary, January, 01 2007
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
Ever since the movie "Fargo" came out a decade ago, my ability to mimic the Scandinavian-inflected accent of my hometown and home state of North Dakota has been a guaranteed way to elicit laughter during my public speaking.
Jensen: Opportunities lost: When bullies derail dialogue, we all lose
Commentary, December, 09 2006
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
In a world of spin, no one expects truth from corporate executives or the politicians who serve them, but many of us hold out hope that in the classroom and sanctuary we can engage one another honestly in the struggle to understand the world and o...
