Delivering educational products: The job formerly known as teaching
by Robert Jensen [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
Listening to Life, before it’s too late: An interview with Ellen LaConte
by Robert Jensen People of conscience face two crucial challenges today: (1) Telling the truth about the dire state of the ecosphere that makes our lives possible, no matter how grim that reality, and (2) remaining committed to collective action to create a more just and sustainable world, no matter
Technological Fundamentalism: Why Bad Things Happen When Humans Play God
Religious, national, and market fundamentalisms are frightening, but they may turn out to be less dangerous than our society’s technological fundamentalism.
“All That We Share” Isn’t Enough
A review of All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons
Elections: The Day After
Election Day is far from the most important moment in our political lives.
Political Wish List: Honest Talk about Economics, Empire, and Energy
What politicians should be discussing in the mid-term election campaigns.
A World in Collapse?
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. He spoke to NLP’s Alex Doherty about the threat of environmental catastrophe. http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/a_world_in_collapse/
Glenn Beck’s Redemption Song
Beck’s rally in DC marks a new kind of right-wing politics.
There are No Heroes in Illegal and Immoral Wars
In seven years of the deceptively named “Operation Iraqi Freedom” and nine years of “Operation Enduring Freedom” in Afghanistan, no member of the U.S. has been a hero.
Why am I here? Our struggle for meaning, in the world and church
The role of progressive religion in coping with collapse.