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- Saturday, Aug 28, 2010
Commentary 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.” -
- Saturday, Aug 14, 2010
Book Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle to be a human being.” The journey from masculinity to humanity is found in the candid and intelligent exploration of porn’s devastatin... Book At the root of the current political, economic, cultural, and ecological chaos is a national spiritual unrest, a fragmentation that has inhibited society's self-awareness and slowed theological progress to a glacial crawl. Book In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: “How does it feel to be a problem?” In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously re... -
- Sunday, Jul 18, 2010
Commentary 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. -
- Wednesday, Jun 30, 2010
Commentary 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. -
- Tuesday, Jun 08, 2010
Commentary 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. -
- Saturday, Mar 27, 2010
Commentary 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 ... -
- Saturday, Feb 13, 2010
Commentary 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... -
- Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010
Commentary 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... -
- Saturday, Nov 21, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009
ZNet Article The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for the KVRX radio show “The Pursuit of Injustice.†-
- Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
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- Wednesday, Sep 16, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009
ZNet Article 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... ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Thursday, Jul 16, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Saturday, Jul 04, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, Jul 02, 2009
Video In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois suggested that the question white people so often want to ask black people is, How does it feel to be a problem? This program turns the tables and recognizes some simple facts: Race problems have their roo... -
- Saturday, Jun 20, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Sunday, Jun 14, 2009
Commentary "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... -
- Wednesday, Feb 04, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Jan 13, 2009
Commentary 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. -
- Saturday, Nov 15, 2008
Audio Vision, analysis, and strategy for a left/progressive movement in the aftermath of the election. -
- Thursday, Oct 23, 2008
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Monday, Sep 22, 2008
ZNet Article 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. -
- Thursday, Sep 18, 2008
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Sep 11, 2008
ZNet Article 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... -
- Saturday, Aug 16, 2008
Audio We’re in trouble, on all fronts, and the trouble is wider and deeper than most of us have been willing to acknowledge. We should struggle to build a road on which we can walk through those troubles -- if such a road is possible -- but I doubt it’s... - All Most Recent Content
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- Saturday, Nov 15, 2008
Audio Vision, analysis, and strategy for a left/progressive movement in the aftermath of the election. -
- Saturday, Aug 16, 2008
Audio We’re in trouble, on all fronts, and the trouble is wider and deeper than most of us have been willing to acknowledge. We should struggle to build a road on which we can walk through those troubles -- if such a road is possible -- but I doubt it’s... -
- Saturday, Mar 08, 2008
Audio 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... - All Recent Audio
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- Saturday, Aug 14, 2010
Book Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle to be a human being.” The journey from masculinity to humanity is found in the candid and intelligent exploration of porn’s devastatin... Book At the root of the current political, economic, cultural, and ecological chaos is a national spiritual unrest, a fragmentation that has inhibited society's self-awareness and slowed theological progress to a glacial crawl. Book In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: “How does it feel to be a problem?” In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously re... -
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