Robert Jensen
Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center in Austin. He is the author of Arguing for Our Lives: A User's Guide to Constructive Dialogue (City Lights, 2013); All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice, (Soft Skull Press, 2009); Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007); The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005); Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang, 2002). Jensen is also co-producer of the documentary film "Abe Osheroff: One Foot in the Grave, the Other Still Dancing" (Media Education Foundation, 2009), which chronicles the life and philosophy of the longtime radical activist. An extended interview Jensen conducted with Osheroff is online here.
Jensen can be reached at rjensen@austin.utexas.edu and his articles can be found online here.
Other articles by this author
“There Are Marxists in India?”: Economist Prabhat Patnaik on the Global Crisis
By Robert Jensen, Dissident Voice | Interview![]()
The Corporate Media Crisis: Everything Old Is New Again
By Robert Jensen, Litwin Books | Book Excerpt
The Emperor's Messenger Has No Clothes: Belén Fernández Dresses Down Thomas Friedman
By Robert Jensen, Truthout | Review
Prophetic Politics: Charting a Healthy Role for Religion in Public Life
By Robert Jensen, Jadaliyya | Op-Ed
The Plow and the iPhone: Conservative Fantasies About the Miracles of the Market
By Robert Jensen, Energy Bulletin | Op-Ed
Occupy Congress: Norman Solomon Sees a Role for Progressive Legislators
By Robert Jensen, Truthout | Report
Occupy Demands: Let's Radicalize Our Analysis of Empire, Economics, Ecology
By Robert Jensen, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Fire Next Time Is Now: On Planetary Patriotism
By Robert Jensen, Common Dreams | Interview
My Presbyterian Cult
By Robert Jensen, Truthout | Op-Ed