Robert Jensen
- June 23, 2011 - 7:58am
As we cope with downturns in American power in the world and the American economy at home, there is much talk about reviving, renewing, rescuing, or redefining the American Dream. We would be better off facing the anguish inherent in the American Dream.
- May 2, 2011 - 5:18pm
[This essay originally appeared May 2, 2011, on the Texas Observer website, http://www.texasobserver.org/oped/delivering-educational-products-the-job-formerly-known-as-teaching]
Hi, I’m Robert Jensen, a provider of educational products to consumers at the University of Texas at Austin.
I used to introduce myself as a UT professor, but that was before I attended a Texas Public Policy Founda
- January 2, 2011 - 4:25pm
My greatness as a writer is simply a fact.
You don’t agree? Well, then obviously you are churlish or malevolent.
If I were serious about such a claim of superiority, now would be the time to stop reading -- on the reasonable assumption that I’m a dull-witted bore with no capacity for critical self-reflection.
- December 15, 2010 - 6:08pm
A review of All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons/How to Save the Economy, the Environment, the Internet, Democracy, Our Communities, and Everything Else That Belongs to All of Us
by Jay Walljasper and On the Commons
The New Press, 2010, 288 pages, $18.95by Robert Jensen
All That We Share is an exciting and exasperating book.
- October 30, 2010 - 6:24am
November 2 is going to be a big day in our political lives.
But November 3 will be far more important.
On mid-term Election Day, voters will choose between candidates with different positions on health-care insurance, withdrawal from Afghanistan, and CO2 levels that drive global warming.
- October 5, 2010 - 11:39am
There’s no shortage of political blather in this year’s mid-term election campaigns, but most of us yearn for substantive discussion of the serious problems we face. What should the politicians be discussing?
- September 3, 2010 - 12:13pm
Robert Jensen interviewed by Alex Doherty, New Left Project
Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas. He is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity; The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege; and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity, among other works.
- August 30, 2010 - 11:56am
[A version of this essay appeared on the Texas Observer website at http://www.texasobserver.org/thewholestar/item/16898-glenn-becks-redemption-song.]
About halfway through Saturday’s “Restoring Honor” rally on the DC mall, I realized that I was starting to like Glenn Beck.
Before any friends of mine initiate involuntary commitment proceedings, let me explain.
- August 23, 2010 - 6:26am
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.”
While we can understand the pride of professional soldiers and the emotion behind that statement, it’s time for Americans -- military and civilian -- to face a difficult reality: In seven years of the deceptively
- July 26, 2010 - 7:40am
[This is an edited version of a sermon delivered July 25, 2010, at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, TX. http://www.staopen.com/]
Let’s approach the question “Why am I here?” at two different levels.
The first is the question of the ages, which we all have asked at some point: Why is any one of us here?
