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Jensen: Elections: The Day After
Commentary, October, 31 2010
Robert Jensen
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On mid-term Election Day, voters will choose between candidates with different positions on health-care insurance, withdrawal from Afghanistan, and CO2 levels that drive global warming.
Jensen: Economics: Doing business as if people mattered
Commentary, October, 06 2010
Robert Jensen
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When politicians talk economics these days, they argue a lot about the budget deficit. That’s crucial to our economic future, but in the contemporary workplace there’s an equally threatening problem -- the democracy deficit.
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: 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: 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: 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...
Jensen: What does it mean to be a human being? Balancing theological and political insights
Commentary, June, 20 2009
Robert Jensen
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My first venture into political activism was in the feminist movement to end men's violence against women and men's use of women in the sexual-exploitation industries (stripping, pornography, prostitution), grounded in a critique of the underlying...
Jensen: Lingering white supremacy in South Africa sounds much like United States
Commentary, June, 14 2009
Robert Jensen
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"During apartheid the racism of white people was up front, and we knew what we were dealing with. Now white people smile at us, but for most black people the unemployment and grinding poverty and dehumanizing conditions of everyday life haven't ch...
Jensen: Beyond grief and rage: Palestine and the politics of resistance
Commentary, January, 13 2009
Robert Jensen
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We need to analyze and strategize about political realities, but let’s begin with an emotional reality: For the past few weeks the scenes from Gaza have been driving many of us mad.
Jensen: Universal patterns within cultural diversity: Patriarchy makes men crazy and stupid
Commentary, July, 11 2008
Robert Jensen
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Islamabad, Pakistan - Some lessons learned while spending time in a different culture come from paying attention to the wide diversity in how we humans arrange ourselves socially. Equally crucial lessons come from seeing patterns in how people beh...
Jensen: Masculine, Feminine or Human?
Commentary, June, 11 2008
Robert Jensen
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In a guest lecture about masculinity to a college class, I ask the students to generate two lists that might help clarify the concept.
Jensen: The Sorrows of Race and Gender in the 2008 Presidential Election
Commentary, April, 28 2008
Robert Jensen
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It may seem odd to talk of sorrows around race and gender in politics when we are a few months away from being able to vote for a white woman or a black man for president of the United States. When I was born in 1958, any suggestion that such an e...
Jensen: The end of Osheroff's dance: Lessons from a life of resistance and love
Commentary, April, 15 2008
Robert Jensen
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As Abe Osheroff's body slowly began to betray him in his 80s and 90s, one of his favorite lines was, "I have one foot in the grave but the other keeps dancing."
Jensen: Beyond Peace
Commentary, March, 20 2008
Robert Jensen
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It has long been a staple of the antiwar movement that there can be no meaningful peace without justice on a global scale...
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...
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: 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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
