Source: ABC Religion & Ethics An earlier version of this essay was presented to the National Conference on Racial and Social Justice…
Robert Jensen
Robert Jensen is an emeritus professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin and a founding board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center. He collaborates with New Perennials Publishing and the New Perennials Project at Middlebury College.
Jensen is associate producer and host of Podcast from the Prairie, with Wes Jackson.
Based on more than three decades of research and activism, I can state without hesitation or reservation that pornography and the other sexual-exploitation industries are an impediment to stable, decent human communities
Reasonable people can disagree, and a university should be a place where those disagreements are celebrated. That would be a good starting point for a Liberty Institute
A review of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
Radical feminism helped me understand how deeply patriarchy is woven into the fabric of everyday life and how central it is to the domination/subordination that defines the world
How can we determine what are good and bad ideas in the gender identity debate if we cancel those having the conversation?
In my last couple years of university teaching before retiring, I repeated two catch phrases as often as possible—“reasonable people can disagree” and “if two things are both true, then both are relevant.”
Instead, we should atone for the genocide that was incited — and condoned — by the very men we idolize as our ‘heroic’ founding fathers
Acquiring the land base of the United States required the most extensive genocide in recorded human history
The consequences of human recklessness define our future
