I’m finally activating my Dead Dogma Substack. For details, go to deaddogma.substack.com/p/up-and-run....

Recommended read: “Pronatalism, a Conversation with Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin.” signsjournal.org/pronatalism-...

In a roundabout attack on James Talarico, The Christian Post challenges St. Andrew’s pastor Jim Rigby, in part by highlighting the controversy 20 years ago when I joined the church but rejected supernatural claims of the Bible and conventional ideas about God. www.christianpost.com/news/4-thing...

Wes Jackson on being a misfit. “I have never really fit anywhere. I don’t fit in genetics anymore. I didn’t fit in the nonprofit world. I certainly wouldn’t fit in any university. And I don’t think I would fit as a farmer.” 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

Wes Jackson and friends: “One day his brother Elmer noted that Jackson was always quoting others in his writing and asked, “Don’t you have a mind of your own?” Jackson said he did not. “I don’t know what I think until I talk to my friends,” 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

Wes Jackson’s rhetorical question that goes to the core of our ecological crises: “Why is this not enough?” Why are people not satisfied, he asked, with all the beauty, creativity, and complexity of the ecosystems around us? 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

“Wes Jackson’s career demonstrates that sometimes the race goes not to the swift but to the unconventional, that the battle can be won not only by the strong but by the stubborn. Straight-A students don’t always lead the way.” 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

I have started a monthly column at 3 Quarks Daily. My first piece is “Wes Jackson: A Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming .” 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

A successful malpractice suit and changes in medical association guidelines this past week signaled a shift in the trans debate. If you’re wondering where to start to understand the issue, I recommend my chapter (available online for free) robertwjensen.org/wp-content/u...

Thanks to my friend Julie Bindel for running Darrell Jackson’s essay, “Practicing vulnerability: A black man’s struggle toward understanding and belonging.” juliebindel.substack.com/p/practicing...

“The conventional wisdom isn’t always wrong, of course, but it’s wrong often enough that reflexively adopting it is dangerous. Challenging the assumptions of the dominant culture is crucial, especially in a journalism class.” hxlibraries.substack.com/p/teaching-s...

Reading about CBS Evening News declaring ‘We Love America’ took me back to my 2003 article, “Patriotism’s a Bad Idea at a Dangerous Time.” robertwjensen.org/articles/pat...

My friend Stan Cox's new book is out. "In Anthropause, Stan Cox writes that by embracing degrowth, we are not turning our backs on progress. Instead, we are redefining it." www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796376...

I had a great conversation with Eric Jennings on the World XP Podcast, covering politics, culture, and my career. www.youtube.com/watch?v=um9D...

A clip from my interview for the World XP Podcast, on the joy of connecting with students. x.com/worldxppodca...

“Teaching is not politics, but there is always an underlying political current to teaching about human affairs because there is inescapably a politics to living.” www.merionwest.com/teaching-stu...

“Teaching Students to Think for Themselves Is Never Apolitical“ in Merion West. www.merionwest.com/teaching-stu...

From 2016, reflections on the sexual predators Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. wagingnonviolence.org/2016/11/why-...

“If you want to be a good man, do your best to be a good person.” From “How to be a good man.” juliebindel.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

My response to the conversation on “How to be a good man.” juliebindel.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

One of the prison writers I work with, Antoine Davis, writes about taking control of his health through exercise in prison. Online at Grassroots Thinking, www.grassrootsthinking.com/essay-why-i-...

“the paradox of pornography. ,,, How can a media genre become more mainstream at the same time that it becomes more misogynist and racist? Why would liberals/progressives/leftists who routinely critique sexism and racism give pornography a pass?” juliebindel.substack.com/p/pornograph...

Thanks to Howie Richey for a great conversation at “Turbulent Times Book Review” and on KURU Radio about my writing on the multiple cascading ecological crises. ttbc.substack.com/p/my-intervi...

“I learned quickly that my new brethren on the left were mostly opposed to radical feminism, and eventually embracing radical feminism got me shunned by liberal and postmodern feminists.” juliebindel.substack.com/p/pornograph...

See Julie Bindel’s Substack for my reflections on “Pornography, Hate Speech, and the Inconsistencies of the Left.” juliebindel.substack.com/p/pornograph...

FREE screening of "Prairie Prophecy" at Lawrence Arts Center, Nov. 21st, 7:00PM. Get 40% off (UPKHOLIDAY25) these Wes Jackson books: -Hogs Are Up (kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700630592/) -The Restless & Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson by @robertjensen.bsky.social (kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700636808/).

“We are more likely to advance human dignity and ecological sustainability if we focus less on ‘why are those people so bad?’ and more on ‘what forces shaped this outcome?’” from “Who’s to Blame? Political Action, Personal Accountability, and Human Nature” www.commondreams.org/opinion/who-...

My plea for humility in politics: “The moral high ground is a dangerous place to stand, even when it’s warranted.” dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/whos...

“The only human future I can imagine is ‘fewer and less’: fewer people consuming less energy and stuff. To deal with the temptations of dense energy, we need to agree to limits.” from my essay “Who’s to blame?” dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/whos...

“The only human future I can imagine is ‘fewer and less’: fewer people consuming less energy and stuff. To deal with the temptations of dense energy, we need to agree to limits.” from my essay “Who’s to blame?” dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/whos...

“Who’s to blame? Political action, personal accountability, and human nature” is online at Dissident Voice. dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/whos... The ideas come from my last two books and the forthcoming _This I Don’t Believe._

Trump’s new “peace plan” reminded me of “Occupation Blues,” my 2003 review of Tanya Reinhart’s _Israel/Palestine How to End the War of 1948_: “for the ‘political generals,’ … the maximalist dream never died, and the plans for more land, and more war, went forward.” robertwjensen.org/articles/occ...

My latest attempt to summarize the trans debate in plain language: “Teaching the Transgender Debate: Journalism, Academic Freedom, and Responsible Reporting” in the LA Progressive. www.laprogressive.com/lgbtq/teachi...

“the worst teaching is simplistic teaching. Trying to understand a complex topic in philosophy can’t be done through platitudes. Grappling with the complex history of the United States takes more than political slogans.” blueearbooks.substack.com/p/the-freedo...

I speculate on what the MAGA reaction to my teaching would be if I were still in the classroom in “The Freedom to Teach about Freedom” on Heterodoxy in the Stacks. hxlibraries.substack.com/p/the-freedo...

Darrell Jackson, one of the wonderful prison writers I work with, describes his college experience in prison. “Thinking Beyond the Bars” is at the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. jbhe.com/2025/09/thin...

My book with Wes Jackson, An Inconvenient Apocalypse, undpress.nd.edu/978026820366... is 40% off from the publisher. Use the code at undpress.nd.edu/apsa-virtual...

Ecologist Bill Rees provides a concise counter to the unhelpful hype that renewable energy can power modern societies. “What energy transition?” reeswilliame.substack.com/p/what-energ...

We can support a robust conception of free speech without relying on jargon and platitudes. “There Is No Such Thing as Free-Speech Absolutism.” 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

Given the recent flood of arguments for expanding the human population, I thought I would repost this book excerpt, “Population: The fear of limiting people and our things.” www.populationbalance.org/publications...

If you are skeptical about transgender ideology but put off by the cruelty of Trump’s rhetoric, my chapter “Defining Sex/Gender: Beyond Trans Ideology” may be helpful. It’s part of my most recent book. Read it for free at robertwjensen.org/books/its-de...

Thanks to Donna Hughes, editor of the great journal “Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence,” for publishing my article "Why Are Men So Obsessed with Pornography? Andrea Dworkin Was Right." digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/vol1...

French translation of my latest article on pornography and Andrea Dworkin: tradfem.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/p...

Yesterday I spoke to the National Organization for Men Against Sexism conference on “Why are men so obsessed with pornography? Andrea Dworkin was right.” The text is online at juliebindel.substack.com/p/why-are-me...

lonesomehighway.com/music-review... Review of Eliza Gilkyson Dark Ages "… Gilkyson is in fine vocal form throughout ... that's hardly surprising; she has consistently hit that high mark with her recordings for over four decades now." Declan Culliton

After reading a NYT story about the cultural obsession with being “hot,” I thought of this passage at the end of a talk I gave on pornography four years ago, about heat and light. www.feministcurrent.com/2021/03/28/p...

I just learned that Academia.edu is producing AI summaries of articles. Here’s one of my post-9/11 essays. AI Podcast of "September 11 and the failures of American intellectuals" www.academia.edu/ai_podcast/9...

Why I don’t endorse patriotism, a chapter from my 2004 book Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity, online at robertwjensen.org/wp-content/u....

I had an engaging conversation about men and feminism with Dévashi Shakti for her “Beyond Patriarchal Sex” podcast. Thanks to her for the thoughtful questions. devashi-shakti.mykajabi.com/podcast