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Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center. His latest book, All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice, was published in 2009 by Soft Skull Press. He also is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007); The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005); Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang, 2002). Jensen's articles can be found online at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html.
Monday, August 23, 2010 There Are No Heroes in Illegal and Immoral Wars (10 comments)
The Afghan & Iraq invasions were illegal under Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution which required United Nations Security Council clearance of the invasions as a response to imminent attack. The Bush/Cheney administration lied its way around this legal barrier.
Monday, July 27, 2009 Teachable moments require willing learners (8 comments)
In this allegedly "post-racial" era, these teachable moments are an important reminder that white supremacy is woven deeply into the fabric of this country.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Conflicting visions of romantic love (5 comments)
a review of A Vindication of Love Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century
by Cristina Nehring
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 The Color of the Race Problem Is White (6 comments)
"The Color of the Race Problem Is White," a lecture by Professor Robert Jensen, University of Texas at Austin
Saturday, June 20, 2009 What does it mean to be a human being? Balancing theological and political insights (7 comments)
Which practices, systems, and fundamental conceptions of what it means to be human,
are consistent with a sustainable human presence on the earth, respectful of other life,
in societies that provide the necessary resources for all people to live a decent life,
within a culture that fosters individual flourishing alongside a meaningful sense of collective identity,
helping us to take seriously ou
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 Finding a stubborn hope to live in a dead culture (4 comments)
Rather than saving the dominant culture, our task is not only to let it pass from the scene but to hasten that transition.
Saturday, October 18, 2008 The cruel boredom of pornography (7 comments)
The dirty secret of the porn industry is that, with a finite number of ways that human bodies can fit together, their product is repetitive and dull by definition. So they must resort to sexualizing degradation itself.
Thursday, August 14, 2008 The old future's gone: Progressive strategy amid cascading crises (8 comments)
A version of this essay was delivered to the Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice, Peace, and Social Movements at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, August 11, 2008.
Monday, May 5, 2008 The selling and shaping of our souls
an edited version of a sermon delivered May 4, 2008, at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin, TX.
Monday, March 31, 2008 Podur on Sustainability
An edited transcript of the keynote speech Justin Podur gave at the "Spirituality and Activism Conference," St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Austin, TX, March 29, 2008.
Monday, March 17, 2008 Beyond peace (1 comments)
Now it's time for those of us in the peace-and-justice movement in the First World, especially in the United States, to take the next step: We must recognize that there can be no justice over the long term without sustainability, and creating a sustainable world will require not only radical change in systems and structures of power but also a radical change in the way we in affluent societies live.
Monday, April 30, 2007 Last Sunday: Anti-capitalism in five minutes or less (6 comments)
[Remarks to the final "Last Sunday" 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.]
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Media reform should include critique of sexual-exploitation media (13 comments)
Facing the pornography industry forces us to acknowledge the deep misogyny and white supremacy that still exists in the culture, even with the gains of the feminist and civil-rights movements. Both women and men might understandably be afraid of confronting what pornography tells us about the cruelty of our culture, our own sexual socialization, and the difficult struggles we face to create a world free of sexual violence.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007 The problem with solutions (3 comments)
Remarks to the second "Last Sunday" community gathering in Austin, TX, December 29, 2006.
Monday, November 27, 2006 Last Sunday: Digging in and digging deep (1 comments)
Remarks to the first in a series of "Last Sunday" community gatherings in Austin, TX, November 26, 2006.
Monday, May 8, 2006 Covering and the law
A review of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, Kenji Yoshino (Random House, 2006). 282 pp. $24.95.
Thursday, April 27, 2006 Why leftists mistrust liberals (5 comments)
It's time to highlight distinctions between liberals and leftists.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Diagnosing the U.S. 'national character': Narcissistic Personality Disorder' (1 comments)
Can a nation have a coherent character? ....What if, for purposes of analysis, we treated the nation as a person? Scan the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (the bible of mental-health professionals, now in its fourth edition) and one category jumps out: Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
DSM-IV describes the disorder as...
Monday, March 20, 2006 Crash and the self-indulgence of white America (2 comments)
Crash is a white-supremacist movie,a setback in the crucial project of forcing white America to come to terms the reality of race and racism, white supremacy and white privilege.
Sunday, January 15, 2006 MLK Day: Dreams and nightmares (1 comments)
[Talk to be delivered to University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, January 16, 2006.]
