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Znet Article Jensen: Last Sunday: Digging in and digging deep

Znet Article, November, 28 2006 Robert Jensen
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[Remarks to the first in a series of "Last Sunday" community gatherings in Austin, TX, November 26, 2006.] We billed Last Sunday as a place for people to come together to explore the intersections of the political, artistic, and spiritual. The id...

Commentary Jensen: The consequences of the death of empathy

Commentary, November, 16 2006 Robert Jensen
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One of the most devastating consequences of unearned privilege -- both for those of us on top and, for very different reasons, those who suffer beneath -- is the death of empathy.

Znet Article Jensen: The 2006 elections and the coming train wreck: Does it matter if we slow down the train?

Znet Article, November, 10 2006 Robert Jensen
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As I stood in line for coffee on the morning after election night, a Democratic Party supporter ahead of me in line said, “Thank God this country is finally switching trains.” If only that were true.  On Election Day 2006, the U.S....

Znet Article Jensen: Academic Freedom on the Rock(s): The Failures of Faculty in Tough Times

Znet Article, October, 27 2006 Robert Jensen
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[This essay was commissioned by the guest editors of a special issue of the academic journal Social Text but rejected by the journal’s editorial collective on the grounds it was theoretically unsophisticated that included a “cheap...

Commentary Jensen: Finding my way back to church -- and getting kicked out:
The struggle over what it means to be Christian today

Commentary, October, 12 2006 Robert Jensen
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[A version of this was presented to the Methodist Federation for Social Action, Austin, TX.]

Commentary Jensen: University Repression

Commentary, October, 08 2006 Robert Jensen
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When I published an article this summer that condemned the past six decades of U.S. policy toward Iran, and the Middle East more generally, as a strategy of "domination-through-violence," http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/attackingiran.h...

Commentary Jensen: Propriety and paranoia in the empire

Commentary, September, 27 2006 Robert Jensen
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After appearing on FOX News this weekend to defend Venezuelan President Hugo ChavezÕs speech at the United Nations, I got the usual assortment of fair-and-balanced emails from viewers, many of whom were critical of my support of Òthis Satanic barb...

Znet Article Jensen: The other 9/11 tragedy: The road not taken

Znet Article, September, 15 2006 Robert Jensen
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We all remember where we were and what we felt on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. I also have a clear recollection of the morning of Sept. 14. I got to my office early, and the red message light on my phone was already blinking. My voice-mailbox wa...

Commentary Jensen: Getting Cognitive: The Limits Of George Lakoff's Politics

Commentary, September, 02 2006 Robert Jensen
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[A review of Whose Freedom? The Battle over America's Most Important Idea by George Lakoff (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006).]

Commentary Jensen: Constraining history/controlling knowledge

Commentary, August, 14 2006 Robert Jensen
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One way to measure the fears of people in power is by the intensity of their quest for certainty and control over knowledge.

Commentary Jensen: Attacking Iran: Bad Policy Is A Bipartisan Affair

Commentary, June, 20 2006 Robert Jensen
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Will the United States attack Iran?

Commentary Jensen: The Four Fundamentalisms and the Threat to Sustainable Democracy

Commentary, June, 08 2006 Robert Jensen
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[A version of this talk was delivered to the Brisbane Social Forum, Australia, May 21, 2006.]

Znet Article Jensen: Why Leftists Mistrust Liberals

Znet Article, April, 29 2006 Robert Jensen
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Some of my best friends are liberals. Really. But I have found it is best not to rely on them politically. Bashing the left to burnish credibility in mainstream circles is a time-honored liberal move, a way of saying “I’m critical ...

Commentary Jensen: Diagnosing the U.S. 'national character': Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Commentary, April, 24 2006 Robert Jensen
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Politicians and pundits in the United States love to talk about our "national character," typically in rapturous tones of triumphalism.

Commentary Jensen: America's most influential pimp helped mainstream pornography

Commentary, April, 13 2006 Robert Jensen
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Hugh Hefner is 80 today (April 9). America, say happy birthday to our most influential pimp.

Commentary Jensen: Why I am a Christian (sort of)

Commentary, April, 06 2006 Robert Jensen
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I don't believe in God.

Commentary Jensen: Crash

Commentary, March, 25 2006 Robert Jensen
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"Crash" is a white-supremacist movie.

Commentary Jensen: The Paradox Of Pornography

Commentary, February, 23 2006 Robert Jensen
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Pornography's business has always been the exposure of women's bodies for the pleasure of men, and that was readily evident at the annual Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas last month.

Znet Article Jensen: "Dangerous" Academics: Right-Wing Distortions About Leftist Professors

Znet Article, February, 08 2006 Robert Jensen
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In an “urgent” email last week, right-wing activist David Horowitz hyped his latest book about threats to America’s youth from leftist professors. The ad for “The Professors -- The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in A...

Znet Article Jensen: MLK Day: Dreams and nightmares

Znet Article, January, 15 2006 Robert Jensen
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[Talk to be delivered to University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, January 16, 2006.] In Martin Luther King Jr’s most famous speech, he had a dream.  But in another of King’s important addresses, he faced the depth of our ni...

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