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- Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012
ZNet Article Conservative fantasies about the miracles of the market -
- Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011
ZNet Article Solomon argues that when the left has treated elections as irrelevant, the result has been self-marginalization that helps empower the military-industrial complex -
- Monday, Nov 07, 2011
ZNet Article The demand for demands is an attempt to shoehorn the Occupy gatherings into conventional politics -
- Friday, Sep 09, 2011
ZNet Article The worldwide demonstrations that involved at least 10 million people on February 15, 2003, were the result of incredible organizing efforts -
- Sunday, Jun 26, 2011
ZNet Article The American Dream is born of, and maintained by, domination -
- Tuesday, May 31, 2011
ZNet Article Tipton-Martin knows well how the white world rewards people of color who fit in, rather than challenge, white norms -
- Friday, May 06, 2011
ZNet Article The question is not whether we sometimes fail, but why failure sometimes becomes routine -
- Sunday, Oct 31, 2010
Commentary 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. -
- Wednesday, Oct 06, 2010
Commentary When politicians talk economics these days, they argue a lot about the budget deficit. That’s crucial to our economic future, but in the contemporary workplace there’s an equally threatening problem -- the democracy deficit. -
- Saturday, Sep 04, 2010
ZNet Article Robert Jensen interviewed by Alex Doherty, New Left Project -
- Saturday, Aug 28, 2010
Commentary 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.” -
- Saturday, Aug 14, 2010
Book Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle to be a human being.” The journey from masculinity to humanity is found in the candid and intelligent exploration of porn’s devastatin... Book At the root of the current political, economic, cultural, and ecological chaos is a national spiritual unrest, a fragmentation that has inhibited society's self-awareness and slowed theological progress to a glacial crawl. Book In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: “How does it feel to be a problem?” In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously re... -
- Sunday, Jul 18, 2010
Commentary we struggle in the moment with complex problems that defy simple solutions -- problems that may be beyond our capacity to solve in any meaningful way. -
- Wednesday, Jun 30, 2010
Commentary If we are serious about the abolition of nuclear weapons, we have to place the abolition of the U.S. empire at the center of our politics. -
- Tuesday, Jun 08, 2010
Commentary Welcome to the world of "possibilian" neuroscientist-writer David Eagleman, to life in the space between what-is and what-if, between the facts we think we know and the fictions that illuminate what we don't know. -
- Saturday, Mar 27, 2010
Commentary There is considerable attention paid in the United States to the collapse of journalism -- both in terms of the demise of the business model for corporate commercial news media, and the evermore superficial, shallow, and senseless content that is ... -
- Saturday, Feb 13, 2010
Commentary The New York Times' public editor wrestled this week with conflict-of-interest charges sparked by the revelation that Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner's son had joined the Israeli army. The executive editor of the paper responded with a sensib... -
- Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010
Commentary CNN's star anchor Anderson Cooper narrates a chaotic street scene in Port-au-Prince. A boy is struck in the head by a rock thrown by a looter from a roof. Cooper helps him to the side of the road, and then realizes the boy is disoriented and unabl... -
- Saturday, Nov 21, 2009
Commentary Over the past few years a growing number of white people have joined the longstanding indigenous people's critique of the holocaust denial that is at the heart of the Thanksgiving holiday. In two recent essays I have examined the disturbing nature... -
- Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009
ZNet Article The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for the KVRX radio show “The Pursuit of Injustice.†-
- Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
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- Wednesday, Sep 16, 2009
Commentary Journalism schools have much in common with the mainstream news media they traditionally serve. As the business model for conventional corporate journalism collapses and digital technologies reshape the media landscape, journalism schools struggle... -
- Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009
Commentary Honoring President Obama's request that the controversy involving a black Harvard University professor and a white Cambridge police officer become "a teachable moment," here's my contribution to an old lesson that we white people tend to be slow t... -
- Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009
ZNet Article When we seek the truth, we try to make sense of a chaotic world. We struggle to achieve what clarity is possible. When we look honestly, we face the cruelty of that truth. But the crucible, the most important test of our capacity to face the truth... ZNet Article Cristina Nehring's title marks the problem with her attempt to vindicate love and reclaim romance: Love needs no vindication, and we shouldn't be eager to reclaim the vision of romance she offers - dark and dramatic, tortured and tragic, always a ... -
- Thursday, Jul 16, 2009
Commentary My transition to political radicalism -- going to the root of problems, recognizing that dramatic and fundamental change in the way society is organized is necessary if there is to be a decent human future -- involved a lot of pain, in two differe... -
- Saturday, Jul 04, 2009
Commentary Power is typically approached as a question of dominance and submission. Power is marked by the ability to impose or the ability to resist that imposition. This is what some have called “power-over,†which assumes a zero-sum game in which indi... -
- Thursday, Jul 02, 2009
Video In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois suggested that the question white people so often want to ask black people is, How does it feel to be a problem? This program turns the tables and recognizes some simple facts: Race problems have their roo... - All Most Recent Content
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- Saturday, Nov 15, 2008
Audio Vision, analysis, and strategy for a left/progressive movement in the aftermath of the election. -
- Saturday, Aug 16, 2008
Audio We’re in trouble, on all fronts, and the trouble is wider and deeper than most of us have been willing to acknowledge. We should struggle to build a road on which we can walk through those troubles -- if such a road is possible -- but I doubt it’s... -
- Saturday, Mar 08, 2008
Audio This interview focuses on how activists can bring dissenting views into the dominant media institutions, the place of institutional analysis in writing, and how activists should approach journalists and editors, and more... - All Recent Audio
Recent Books-
- Saturday, Aug 14, 2010
Book Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle to be a human being.” The journey from masculinity to humanity is found in the candid and intelligent exploration of porn’s devastatin... Book At the root of the current political, economic, cultural, and ecological chaos is a national spiritual unrest, a fragmentation that has inhibited society's self-awareness and slowed theological progress to a glacial crawl. Book In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: “How does it feel to be a problem?” In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously re... -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
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