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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.

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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 1, 2006
The paradox of pornography
(18 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 25, 2010
The Collapse of Journalism/The Journalism of Collapse: New Storytelling and a New Story A new journalism needed for a society in collapse.
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 25, 2010
Great television/bad journalism: Media failures in Haiti coverage U.S. mainstream media fail to tell the real story of Haiti.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 20, 2006
“Crash” and the self-indulgence of white America “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.
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 8, 2010
Struggling to be "fully alive': Reports on coping with anguish for a world in collapse People report on their emotional reactions to a world in collapse.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Pornography is a left issue Leftists should critique pornography as they do other media.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, September 29, 2012
From Start to Finish: Why We Won and How We Are Losing We label as "crazy" those members of the human species whose behavior we find hard to understand, but the cascading crises in contemporary political, economic, and cultural life make a bigger question increasingly hard to ignore: Is the species itself crazy?
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 14, 2008
The old future's gone: Progressive strategy amid cascading crises 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.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The Color of the Race Problem Is White "The Color of the Race Problem Is White," a lecture by Professor Robert Jensen, University of Texas at Austin
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 26, 2010
Why am I here? Our struggle for meaning, in the world and church Progressive religion and coping with collapse
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 24, 2008
The anti-feminist politics behind the pornography that "empowers" women The politics of male supremacy on display at the pornography industry's convention in Las Vegas.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 18, 2008
The cruel boredom of pornography 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.
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 22, 2010
The anguish of the age: Emotional reactions to collapse Coping with collapse
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SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 5, 2022
A Practical Radical Politics We need to be practical when it comes to politics, to work for policies that we can enact today, inadequate though they may be to answer calls for social justice and ecological sustainability. We also need to maintain a relentlessly radical analysis, to highlight the failures of systems and structures of power, aware that policies we might enact today won't resolve existing crises or stave off collapse.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, June 20, 2009
What does it mean to be a human being? Balancing theological and political insights 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
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 27, 2009
Teachable moments require willing learners 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.
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 15, 2008
Still riding the Second Wave: Reflections on feminist struggles Robert Jensen, interviewing Ruth Anne Koenick about feminism and men's violence against women.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 25, 2008
Technological fundamentalism in media and culture [originally published in Media Development, No. 3, 2008.]
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Bush isn't a racist -- just one more privileged, soulless person
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 6, 2009
The false gods of state and corporation: Becky Garrison interviews Robert Jensen Religion and politics in All My Bones Shake.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 25, 2009
Is Obama a socialist? Reflection on the degradation of politics and the ecosystem [This is an expanded version of a talk given to the University Democrats student group at the University of Texas at Austin, September 23, 2009.]
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, November 18, 2006
Pornographic query: Is a DP inherently sexist?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Diagnosing the U.S. 'national character': Narcissistic Personality Disorder' 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...
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Finding a stubborn hope to live in a dead culture Rather than saving the dominant culture, our task is not only to let it pass from the scene but to hasten that transition.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 23, 2006
Following the principles we claim to hold/being the people we claim to be A version of this talk was delivered to the First Unitarian Universalist Church, Cincinnati, OH, January 22, 2006.]
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 29, 2009
Future farming: The call for a 50-year perspective on agriculture Wes Jackson of The Land Institute discusses how to approach the problem of agriculture through a 50-year farm bill.
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 23, 2010
There Are No Heroes in Illegal and Immoral Wars 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.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 25, 2012
"There are Marxists in India?" Economist Prabhat Patnaik on the global crisis Indian economist looks at the big picture.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 6, 2007
We are all prophets now: Responsibilities and risks in the prophetic voice Sermon delivered August 5, 2007, at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, http://www.staopen.com/
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 1, 2011
Occupy Congress: Norman Solomon sees a role for progressive legislators Longtime progressive activist Norman Solomon makes a big for Congress.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, February 28, 2010
"Getting rid of hope and faith": Abe Osheroff on the struggle for a better world Facing difficult truths honestly.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 23, 2008
Taking politics seriously: Looking beyond the election and beyond elections We shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that the most important political moment in our lives comes in the voting booth.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 15, 2010
No Nukes/No Empire: The Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Requires the End of the U.S. Empire Getting serious about the abolition of nuclear weapons.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 6, 2008
The prophetic challenge: "Few are guilty, but all are responsible" A version of this essay was delivered as a sermon to the Henry David Thoreau Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fort Bend County, Texas, August 3, 2008.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 21, 2008
The sorrows of race and gender in the 2008 presidential election This is an expanded version of a talk given to the University Democrats at the University of Texas at Austin, April 16, 2008.
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Feminism's challenge: Articulating alternatives to unsustainable hierarchies "What is the most important challenge facing women in the 21st century, and why?"
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 31, 2007
Weinberg's claim of moral high ground rings hollow in face of bigoted remark Learning from claims of anti-Semitism and expressions of anti-Palestinian bigotry.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Conflicting visions of romantic love a review of A Vindication of Love Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century by Cristina Nehring
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 30, 2007
Last Sunday: Anti-capitalism in five minutes or less [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.]
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 22, 2008
Free speech not safe from attack by Canadian media corporation A Canadian media corporation uses trademark law to punish activists.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 29, 2007
Last Sunday: What to do with/about white folks? Remarks to the third "Last Sunday" community gathering in Austin, TX, January 28, 2007.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Real hope: Facing difficult truths about an uncertain future Now is the time to articulate an authentic sense of hope, one that is realistic.
SHARE More Sharing        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.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 15, 2006
MLK Day: Dreams and nightmares [Talk to be delivered to University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, January 16, 2006.]
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 17, 2006
Florida's fear of history: New law undermines critical thinking
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 14, 2009
Can journalism schools be relevant in a world on the brink? A call for Journalism for Justice/Storytelling for Sustainability
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 19, 2009
A "Citizens' Oath of Office" for Inauguration Day 2009 "I do solemnly pledge that I will faithfully execute the office of citizen of the United States, ...
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 16, 2005
Intelligent-design debate reveals limits of religion and science
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Saying goodbye to my "Fargo" accent
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 9, 2009
An inspirational political life captured on film A review of Abe Osheroff: One Foot in the Grave, the Other Still Dancing
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 14, 2005
Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 21, 2005
Give Thanks No More; It’s Time for a National Day of Atonement Coming to terms with U.S. history and the lies at the heart of Thanksgiving
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 27, 2006
Why leftists mistrust liberals It's time to highlight distinctions between liberals and leftists.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 11, 2008
audio: Taking politics seriously Vision, analysis, and strategy for a left/progressive movement.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 25, 2007
Finkelstein tenure case exposes the commonplace cowardice of the "responsible" The controversy over Norman Finkelstein's tenure case at DePaul puts on public display the clash of conflicting definitions of the responsibility of academics.
SHARE More Sharing        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.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 12, 2008
The end of Osheroff's dance: Lessons from a life of resistance and love A great radical activist dies at 92, leaving lessons for us all.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, January 2, 2007
The problem with solutions Remarks to the second "Last Sunday" community gathering in Austin, TX, December 29, 2006.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 27, 2006
Last Sunday: Digging in and digging deep Remarks to the first in a series of "Last Sunday" community gatherings in Austin, TX, November 26, 2006.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 14, 2006
Getting cognitive: The limits of George Lakoff's politics A review of Whose Freedom? The Battle over America's Most Important Idea by George Lakoff (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006).
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Eulogy for America/Hope for Creation
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 13, 2007
Lessons from the Lal Masjid tragedy What the news accounts of the confrontation at the Red Mosque missed.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 12, 2007
It didn't start with Iraq: A review of the film WAR MADE EASY A review of the new film featuring Norman Solomon, "War Made Easy."
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 8, 2006
Parallel Purges: Academic Freedom in Iran and America Liberal professors under attack, in Iran and the United States.
SHARE More Sharing        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.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, February 18, 2007
Last Sunday: Liberal icons and bipartisan empire-builiding Remarks to the fourth "Last Sunday" community gathering in Austin, TX, February 18, 2007.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 19, 2008
Fear and hope on the runaway train: A review of Eliza Gilkyson's "Beautiful World" Eliza Gilkyson's new CD, "Beautiful World," offers challenge and comfort.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 14, 2006
5 years later, it's clear the anti-war movement was right
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 21, 2005
Abe Osheroff: On the joys and risks of living authentically in the empire Long-time radical reflects on our political future.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 12, 2005
Our grief is not special:
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Media reform should include critique of sexual-exploitation media 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.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 25, 2006
Propriety and paranoia in the empire Reaction to FOX appearance reveals pathology in U.S. politics
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 17, 2008
Beyond peace 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.

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