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Jensen: “There are Marxists in India?” Economist Prabhat Patnaik on the Global Crisis
Znet Article, April, 25 2012
Robert Jensen
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If we can’t go back to business as usual, and there’s no reason to expect that new rules will solve our problems, what kinds of solutions are possible?
Jensen: Journalists Rock! Journalism Sucks!
Znet Article, March, 24 2012
Robert Jensen
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Why media activists should love the players and hate the game
Jensen: The Emperor’s Messenger Has No Clothes: Belén Fernández Dresses Down Thomas Friedman
Znet Article, February, 27 2012
Robert Jensen
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A review and interview with the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, by Belén Fernández, published by Verso
Jensen: Prophetic Politics: Charting a Healthy Role For Religion In Public Life
Znet Article, February, 12 2012
Robert Jensen
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Instead of bracketing religion out of politics, we should discuss how it can play a key role in a healthy politics
Jensen: The Plow and the Iphone: Conservative Fantasies About the Miracles of the Market
Znet Article, January, 24 2012
Robert Jensen
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Conservative fantasies about the miracles of the market
Jensen: Occupy Congress: Norman Solomon Sees a Role for Progressive Legislators
Znet Article, November, 29 2011
Robert Jensen
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Solomon argues that when the left has treated elections as irrelevant, the result has been self-marginalization that helps empower the military-industrial complex
Jensen: Occupy Demands: Let’s Radicalize Our Analysis of Empire, Economics, Ecology
Znet Article, November, 07 2011
Robert Jensen
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The demand for demands is an attempt to shoehorn the Occupy gatherings into conventional politics
Jensen: Combatting Ignorance, Avoiding Arrogance
Znet Article, September, 09 2011
Robert Jensen
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The worldwide demonstrations that involved at least 10 million people on February 15, 2003, were the result of incredible organizing efforts
Jensen: The Anguish in the American Dream
Znet Article, June, 26 2011
Robert Jensen
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The American Dream is born of, and maintained by, domination
Jensen: Toni Tipton-Martin Explores the Politics of the Kitchen, Past and Present
Znet Article, May, 31 2011
Robert Jensen
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Tipton-Martin knows well how the white world rewards people of color who fit in, rather than challenge, white norms
Jensen: The Job Formerly Known as Teaching
Znet Article, May, 06 2011
Robert Jensen
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The question is not whether we sometimes fail, but why failure sometimes becomes routine
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: 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: 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: Future farming: The call for a 50-year perspective on agriculture
Znet Article, February, 04 2009
Robert Jensen
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As everyone scrambles for a solution to the crises in the nation’s economy, Wes Jackson suggests we look to nature’s economy for some of the answers. With everyone focused on a stimulus package in the short term, he counsels that we pay more a...
Jensen: Taking politics seriously: Looking beyond the election and beyond elections
Znet Article, October, 23 2008
Robert Jensen
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We shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking that the most important political moment in our lives comes in the voting booth. Instead, people should take politics seriously, which means asking considerably more of ourselves than the typical fixation ...
Jensen: Free speech not safe from attack by Canadian media corporation
Znet Article, September, 22 2008
Robert Jensen
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When the bottom line is threatened, corporations typically show little concern for holding the line on political principles such as freedom of expression. In capitalism, freedom is too often just another word for maximizing profits.
Koenick: Still Riding the Second Wave
Znet Article, September, 18 2008
Ruth anne Koenick
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The term second-wave feminism is used to mark the U.S. women’s movement that emerged in the 1960s, distinct from the women’s suffrage movement -- the first wave -- that won the vote in 1920. In the 1990s, the idea of third-wave feminism became pop...
Jensen: Arrogance, ignorance, and cowardice: Lessons from 9/11
Znet Article, September, 11 2008
Robert Jensen
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Given the disastrous decisions made by U.S. officials in the seven long years since September 11, 2001, it would be easy tonight simply to catalog those many mistakes and condemn the bipartisan depravity of the Republican and Democratic politician...
Jensen: The prophetic challenge: “Few are guilty, but all are responsible”
Znet Article, August, 09 2008
Robert Jensen
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One of the common refrains I heard from progressive people in Pakistan and India during my month there this summer was, “We love the American people -- it’s the policies of your government we don’t like.”
Jensen: Fear and hope on the runaway train: A review of Eliza Gilkyson’s “Beautiful World”
Znet Article, June, 25 2008
Robert Jensen
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This really isn’t a music review because I don’t know anything about music. I’m the guy they put in the back row of the choir with instructions to mouth the words as quietly as possible. I learned three guitar chords once; I remember two of them.
Jensen: Diversity and the incoherence of journalism’s ideology
Znet Article, June, 13 2008
Robert Jensen
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The ideology of contemporary corporate commercial journalism is incoherent, and one place to see clearly this confusion is the news media industry’s approach to “diversity.”
Jensen: Raining on the Thanksgiving Day parade: “Redefining” the holiday is a failed project
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Robert Jensen
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After years of being constantly annoyed and often angry about the historical denial built into Thanksgiving Day, I published an essay in November 2005 suggesting we replace the feasting with fasting and create a National Day of Atonement to acknow...
Jensen: Sexuality, masculinity and men's choices
Znet Article, February, 27 2008
Robert Jensen
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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...
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: Masculinity: Where we are stuck
Znet Article, October, 23 2007
Robert Jensen
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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
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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
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[Sermon delivered August 5, 2007, at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Churc...
Jensen: Beyond Advocacy v. Objective Journalism
Znet Article, July, 28 2007
Robert Jensen
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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...
