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The great American torture debate has been rekindled by the nationwide release of “Zero Dark Thirty,” the hot new movie about the…
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.
“Good teaching is living your life honestly in front of students.” I don’t recall exactly when Jim Koplin first told me that,…
I have never much liked football. But after 20 years as a professor at the University of Texas, I have learned to…
After an engaging half-hour interview with India’s pre-eminent Marxist economist during a conference at New York University, I told a friend about…
At an antiwar conference with predominantly left/progressive activists, I began a talk on the failures of contemporary news media by asking how…
[A review of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, by Belén Fernández, published by Verso in its new series Counterblasts, dedicated to…
A review of Walter Brueggemann's The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipatory Word (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012). Does God take sides in the…
A central doctrine of evangelicals for the “free market” is its capacity for innovation: New ideas, new technologies, new gadgets — all…
Conventional politics in the United States focuses on elections, while left activists typically argue that political change comes not from electing better…
[This is an expanded version of remarks at an Occupy Austin teach-in, October 30, 2011.] There’s one question that pundits and…