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Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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?

Znet Article 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Znet Article Jensen: Intelligent-design Debate Reveals Limits Of Religion And Science

Znet Article, December, 18 2005 Robert Jensen
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Despite the clashes between claims based in faith v. reason, it seems that most people -- on both sides of the debate about religion and science in the United States -- share a belief in a kind of magic. Sadly, this need for magical thinking under...

Znet Article Jensen: Hope is for the Weak

Znet Article, November, 15 2005 Robert Jensen
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[Sermon delivered at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin, TX, November 13, 2005] My title this morning -- “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World” -- may seem unnecessarily harsh. After all, hope is an e...

Znet Article Jensen: TV Images Don't Bring Change

Znet Article, October, 28 2005 Robert Jensen
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For weeks after the racialized poverty of New Orleans was laid bare in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, people in the United States asked, "Could this be a turning point? Is this a moment when America might wake up to the inequality and racism ...

Znet Article Jensen: The Fears of White People

Znet Article, September, 08 2005 Robert Jensen
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It may seem self-indulgent to talk about the fears of white people in a white-supremacist society. After all, what do white people really have to be afraid of in a world structured on white privilege? It may be self-indulgent, but it's critical to...

Znet Article Jensen: Book Interview

Znet Article, August, 29 2005 Robert Jensen
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Interview about his book "The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege"

Znet Article Jensen: Belonging and Becoming

Znet Article, August, 15 2005 Robert Jensen
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[Remarks to an interfaith service at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Austin, TX, August 14, 2005] We gather here this afternoon, challenged by Cindy Sheehan's courage. Out of her struggle to come to terms with the ultimate loss has come a moment...

Znet Article Jensen: Feminism's gift -- and challenge -- to men

Znet Article, April, 19 2005 Robert Jensen
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I have lost count of the number of times since her death earlier this month that I have heard feminist writer Andrea Dworkin referred to as a "man-hater." Of all the lies told about feminists, one that always made me particularly angry and sad is...

Znet Article Jensen: Feminism's Gift -- And Challenge -- To Men

Znet Article, April, 19 2005 Robert Jensen
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I  have lost count of the number of times since her death earlier this month that I have heard feminist writer Andrea Dworkin referred to as a "man-hater." Of all the lies told about feminists, one that always made me particularly angry and s...

Znet Article Jensen: Iraq's Non-Election

Znet Article, January, 28 2005 Robert Jensen
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Iraq's Non-Election

Znet Article Jensen: Iraq's Non-Election

Znet Article, January, 28 2005 Robert Jensen
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Predictably, the U.S. news media are full of discussion and debate about this weekend’s election in Iraq. Unfortunately, virtually all the commentary misses a simple point: There will be no “election” on Jan. 30 in Iraq, if...

Znet Article Jensen: God Condemn America

Znet Article, November, 04 2004 Robert Jensen
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After hearing both John Kerry and George W. Bush end their concession and victory speeches with the ubiquitous "God bless America," I decided to conclude all my future political talks with the call "God condemn America," and quote the Bible in sup...

Znet Article Jensen: Election Day Fears

Znet Article, October, 15 2004 Robert Jensen
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We have two great fears about Election Day 2004. The first is that George W. Bush will be elected. The second is that John Kerry will be elected. Those fears are rooted in an understanding that the threats to global justice and world peace c...

Znet Article Jensen: Fahrenheit 9/11 is a Stupid White Movie

Znet Article, July, 05 2004 Robert Jensen
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I have been defending Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" from the criticism in mainstream and conservative circles that the film is leftist propaganda. Nothing could be further from the truth; there is very little left critique in the movie. In fac...

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