Robert Jensen
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Emeritus Professor, University of Texas at Austin.
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Iâm finally activating my Dead Dogma Substack. For details, go to
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Up and running, finally
Iâm going to begin posting articles to the Dead Dogma Substack.
https://deaddogma.substack.com/p/up-and-running-finally
4 days ago
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Recommended read: âPronatalism, a Conversation with Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin.â
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Pronatalism, a Conversation with Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin
Shoshanna Ehlich interviews Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin about pronatalism.
https://signsjournal.org/pronatalism-a-conversation-with-nandita-bajaj-and-michele-goodwin/
5 days ago
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In a roundabout attack on James Talarico, The Christian Post challenges St. Andrewâs 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...
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4 things to know about Senate candidate James Talarico's PCUSA pastor: 'Wolf in sheep's clothing'
Here are four things to know about Jim Rigby, the lifetime pastor and spiritual mentor of Texas state Rep James Talarico, who faces a U S Senate primary
https://www.christianpost.com/news/4-things-to-know-about-jim-rigby-james-talaricos-pastor.html?page=4
6 days ago
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Wes Jackson on being a misfit. âI have never really fit anywhere. I donât fit in genetics anymore. I didnât fit in the nonprofit world. I certainly wouldnât fit in any university. And I donât think I would fit as a farmer.â
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Wes Jackson: A Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming - 3 Quarks Daily
by Robert JensenWes Jacksonâs career demonstrates that sometimes the race goes not to the swift but to the unconventional, that the battle can be won not only
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/02/wes-jackson-a-misfit-trying-to-change-the-future-of-farming.html
11 days ago
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Wes Jackson and friends: âOne day his brother Elmer noted that Jackson was always quoting others in his writing and asked, âDonât you have a mind of your own?â Jackson said he did not. âI donât know what I think until I talk to my friends,â
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Wes Jackson: A Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming - 3 Quarks Daily
by Robert JensenWes Jacksonâs career demonstrates that sometimes the race goes not to the swift but to the unconventional, that the battle can be won not only
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/02/wes-jackson-a-misfit-trying-to-change-the-future-of-farming.html
17 days ago
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Wes Jacksonâs rhetorical question that goes to the core of our ecological crises: âWhy is this not enough?â Why are people not satisfied, he asked, with all the beauty, creativity, and complexity of the ecosystems around us?
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Wes Jackson: A Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming - 3 Quarks Daily
by Robert JensenWes Jacksonâs career demonstrates that sometimes the race goes not to the swift but to the unconventional, that the battle can be won not only
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/02/wes-jackson-a-misfit-trying-to-change-the-future-of-farming.html
18 days ago
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âWes Jacksonâs 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 donât always lead the way.â
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Wes Jackson: A Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming - 3 Quarks Daily
by Robert JensenWes Jacksonâs career demonstrates that sometimes the race goes not to the swift but to the unconventional, that the battle can be won not only
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/02/wes-jackson-a-misfit-trying-to-change-the-future-of-farming.html
19 days ago
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I have started a monthly column at 3 Quarks Daily. My first piece is âWes Jackson: A Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming .â
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Wes Jackson: A Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming - 3 Quarks Daily
by Robert JensenWes Jacksonâs career demonstrates that sometimes the race goes not to the swift but to the unconventional, that the battle can be won not only
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/02/wes-jackson-a-misfit-trying-to-change-the-future-of-farming.html
20 days ago
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A successful malpractice suit and changes in medical association guidelines this past week signaled a shift in the trans debate. If youâre wondering where to start to understand the issue, I recommend my chapter (available online for free)
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https://robertwjensen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Chapter-5-Defining-Sex-Gender-Beyond-Trans-Ideology-v2.pdf
about 1 month ago
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Thanks to my friend Julie Bindel for running Darrell Jacksonâs essay, âPracticing vulnerability: A black manâs struggle toward understanding and belonging.â
juliebindel.substack.com/p/practicing...
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Practicing vulnerability: A black manâs struggle toward understanding and belonging
By Darrell Jackson
https://juliebindel.substack.com/p/practicing-vulnerability-a-black
about 1 month ago
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âThe conventional wisdom isnât always wrong, of course, but itâs wrong often enough that reflexively adopting it is dangerous. Challenging the assumptions of the dominant culture is crucial, especially in a journalism class.â
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âTeaching Students to Think for Themselvesâ Starts with Political Self-Awareness
My nomination for the most predictable platitude invoked by university professors when describing the essence of their job is âteaching students to think for themselves.â
https://hxlibraries.substack.com/p/teaching-students-to-think-for-themselves
about 1 month ago
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Reading about CBS Evening News declaring âWe Love Americaâ took me back to my 2003 article, âPatriotismâs a Bad Idea at a Dangerous Time.â
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Patriotismâs a Bad Idea at a Dangerous Time â ROBERT JENSEN
https://robertwjensen.org/articles/patriotisms-a-bad-idea-at-a-dangerous-time/
about 2 months ago
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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...
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Anthropause by Stan Cox: 9781644215142 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A rallying cry to save the Earth with an âanthropauseââa term that can apply to any broad rollback of economic activity that gives nature room to recover and flourish. âAn iconoclast...
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796376/anthropause-by-stan-cox/
about 2 months ago
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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...
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Robert Jensen - Media's Lies: Vietnam & Iraq War Cover-ups, Journalism Saved Me: Weird to Confident
YouTube video by World XP Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um9DzRGNAf4
about 2 months ago
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A clip from my interview for the World XP Podcast, on the joy of connecting with students.
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https://x.com/worldxppodcast/status/2010450357005287525
about 2 months ago
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âTeaching is not politics, but there is always an underlying political current to teaching about human affairs because there is inescapably a politics to living.â
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Teaching Students to Think for Themselves Is Never Apolitical
Journalism professor Robert Jensen considers how educators should handle contentious politics in the classroom, from the Iraq War to more recent American actions in Venezuela. He argues that honest di...
https://www.merionwest.com/teaching-students-to-think-for-themselves-is-never-apolitical/
2 months ago
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âTeaching Students to Think for Themselves Is Never Apoliticalâ in Merion West.
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Teaching Students to Think for Themselves Is Never Apolitical
Journalism professor Robert Jensen considers how educators should handle contentious politics in the classroom, from the Iraq War to more recent American actions in Venezuela. He argues that honest di...
https://www.merionwest.com/teaching-students-to-think-for-themselves-is-never-apolitical/
2 months ago
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Helena Addison, PhD, RN
Helena Addison, PhD, RN Postdoctoral Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program, Yale University PhD, Nursing Science â University of Pennsylvania MSN â
https://m.yale.edu/c446
2 months ago
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From 2016, reflections on the sexual predators Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.
wagingnonviolence.org/2016/11/why-...
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Why Professor Watchlist gets my teaching values completely wrong
The question isn't whether to politicize the classroom, it's whether we presented the material with evidence, reasoned argument and critical reflection.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2016/11/why-professor-watchlist-gets-my-feminist-teaching-values-completely-wrong/
3 months ago
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âIf you want to be a good man, do your best to be a good person.â From âHow to be a good man.â
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How to be a good man
A guest post, by Robert Jensen
https://juliebindel.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-good-man
3 months ago
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My response to the conversation on âHow to be a good man.â
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How to be a good man
A guest post, by Robert Jensen
https://juliebindel.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-good-man
3 months ago
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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-...
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Why I work out in prison
The nurse offered pills to lower his blood pressure. He chose to work out instead. In his first for Grassroots Thinking, Antoine Davis shares the physical and mental health benefits of exercise, and h...
https://www.grassrootsthinking.com/essay-why-i-work-out-in-prison/
4 months ago
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âthe 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?â
juliebindel.substack.com/p/pornograph...
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Pornography, Hate Speech, and the Inconsistencies of the Left
By Robert Jensen
https://juliebindel.substack.com/p/pornography-hate-speech-and-the-inconsistencies
4 months ago
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Thanks to Howie Richey for a great conversation at âTurbulent Times Book Reviewâ and on KURU Radio about my writing on the multiple cascading ecological crises.
ttbc.substack.com/p/my-intervi...
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My Interview with Robert Jensen
fewer and less
https://ttbc.substack.com/p/my-interview-with-robert-jensen
4 months ago
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âI 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.â
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Pornography, Hate Speech, and the Inconsistencies of the Left
By Robert Jensen
https://juliebindel.substack.com/p/pornography-hate-speech-and-the-inconsistencies
4 months ago
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See Julie Bindelâs Substack for my reflections on âPornography, Hate Speech, and the Inconsistencies of the Left.â
juliebindel.substack.com/p/pornograph...
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Pornography, Hate Speech, and the Inconsistencies of the Left
By Robert Jensen
https://juliebindel.substack.com/p/pornography-hate-speech-and-the-inconsistencies
4 months ago
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reposted by
Robert Jensen
University Press of Kansas
4 months ago
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âWe are more likely to advance human dignity and ecological sustainability if we focus less on âwhy are those people so bad?â and more on âwhat forces shaped this outcome?ââ from âWhoâs to Blame? Political Action, Personal Accountability, and Human Natureâ
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Whoâs to Blame? Political Action, Personal Accountability, and Human Nature | Common Dreams
âWe are more likely to advance human dignity and ecological sustainability if we focus less on âWhy are those people so bad?â and more on âWhat forces shaped this outcome?â
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/who-to-blame-for-polycrisis
4 months ago
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My plea for humility in politics: âThe moral high ground is a dangerous place to stand, even when itâs warranted.â
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Whoâs to Blame? Political Action, Personal Accountability, and Human Nature | Dissident Voice
[A version of this essay was presented at the Taos Community of Love service on October 19, 2025.] I know this isnât a conventional church service, but I would like to start with scripture: âThe moral...
https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/whos-to-blame-political-action-personal-accountability-and-human-nature/
5 months ago
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âThe only human future I can imagine is âfewer and lessâ: fewer people consuming less energy and stuff. To deal with the temptations of dense energy, we need to agree to limits.â from my essay âWhoâs to blame?â
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Whoâs to Blame? Political Action, Personal Accountability, and Human Nature | Dissident Voice
[A version of this essay was presented at the Taos Community of Love service on October 19, 2025.] I know this isnât a conventional church service, but I would like to start with scripture: âThe moral...
https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/whos-to-blame-political-action-personal-accountability-and-human-nature/
5 months ago
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âThe only human future I can imagine is âfewer and lessâ: fewer people consuming less energy and stuff. To deal with the temptations of dense energy, we need to agree to limits.â from my essay âWhoâs to blame?â
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Whoâs to Blame? Political Action, Personal Accountability, and Human Nature | Dissident Voice
[A version of this essay was presented at the Taos Community of Love service on October 19, 2025.] I know this isnât a conventional church service, but I would like to start with scripture: âThe moral...
https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/whos-to-blame-political-action-personal-accountability-and-human-nature/
5 months ago
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âWhoâs to blame? Political action, personal accountability, and human natureâ is online at Dissident Voice.
dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/whos...
The ideas come from my last two books and the forthcoming _This I Donât Believe._
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Whoâs to Blame? Political Action, Personal Accountability, and Human Nature | Dissident Voice
[A version of this essay was presented at the Taos Community of Love service on October 19, 2025.] I know this isnât a conventional church service, but I would like to start with scripture: âThe moral...
https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/10/whos-to-blame-political-action-personal-accountability-and-human-nature/
5 months ago
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Trumpâs new âpeace planâ reminded me of âOccupation Blues,â my 2003 review of Tanya Reinhartâs _Israel/Palestine How to End the War of 1948_: âfor the âpolitical generals,â ⊠the maximalist dream never died, and the plans for more land, and more war, went forward.â
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Occupation Blues â ROBERT JENSEN
https://robertwjensen.org/articles/occupation-blues/
5 months ago
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My latest attempt to summarize the trans debate in plain language: âTeaching the Transgender Debate: Journalism, Academic Freedom, and Responsible Reportingâ in the LA Progressive.
www.laprogressive.com/lgbtq/teachi...
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Teaching the Transgender Debate: Journalism, Academic Freedom, and Responsible Reporting
How educators can navigate state mandates, cultural conflict, and the responsibility to prepare future journalists for difficult conversations
https://www.laprogressive.com/lgbtq/teaching-the-transgender-debate-journalism-academic-freedom
5 months ago
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âthe worst teaching is simplistic teaching. Trying to understand a complex topic in philosophy canât be done through platitudes. Grappling with the complex history of the United States takes more than political slogans.â
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The Freedom to Teach about Freedom
The worst teaching is simplistic teaching. Grappling with the complex history of the United States takes more than political slogans. And our most vexing cultural problems wonât be solved by dogma.
https://blueearbooks.substack.com/p/the-freedom-to-teach-about-freedom
6 months ago
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I speculate on what the MAGA reaction to my teaching would be if I were still in the classroom in âThe Freedom to Teach about Freedomâ on Heterodoxy in the Stacks.
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The Freedom to Teach about Freedom
I had my share of political critics when I taught in Texas, back in what today seems like the quaint era of professor watchlists, but I never felt my job was in jeopardy.
https://hxlibraries.substack.com/p/the-freedom-to-teach-about-freedom
6 months ago
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Darrell Jackson, one of the wonderful prison writers I work with, describes his college experience in prison. âThinking Beyond the Barsâ is at the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.
jbhe.com/2025/09/thin...
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Thinking Beyond the Bars | The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
How higher education helped a prison inmate develop confidence and rediscover his humanity.
https://jbhe.com/2025/09/thinking-beyond-the-bars/
6 months ago
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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...
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An Inconvenient Apocalypse
Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanityâs future w...
https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268203665/an-inconvenient-apocalypse/
6 months ago
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Ecologist Bill Rees provides a concise counter to the unhelpful hype that renewable energy can power modern societies. âWhat energy transition?â
reeswilliame.substack.com/p/what-energ...
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What energy transition?
(will we soon be running on empty?)
https://reeswilliame.substack.com/p/what-energy-transition
7 months ago
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We can support a robust conception of free speech without relying on jargon and platitudes. âThere Is No Such Thing as Free-Speech Absolutism.â
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There Is No Such Thing as Free-Speech Absolutism - 3 Quarks Daily
by Robert Jensen
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2024/07/there-is-no-such-thing-as-free-speech-absolutism.html
7 months ago
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Given the recent flood of arguments for expanding the human population, I thought I would repost this book excerpt, âPopulation: The fear of limiting people and our things.â
www.populationbalance.org/publications...
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Population: The fear of limiting people and our things â Population Balance
Hereâs a question almost no one wants to talk about: What is the sustainable size of the human population, at what level of aggregate consumption? Why are so many people afraid to discuss something so...
https://www.populationbalance.org/publications/population-the-fear-of-limiting-people-and-our-things
8 months ago
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If you are skeptical about transgender ideology but put off by the cruelty of Trumpâs rhetoric, my chapter âDefining Sex/Gender: Beyond Trans Ideologyâ may be helpful. Itâs part of my most recent book. Read it for free at
robertwjensen.org/books/its-de...
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Itâs Debatable: Talking Authentically about Tricky Topics â ROBERT JENSEN
https://robertwjensen.org/books/its-debatable/
8 months ago
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Thanks to Donna Hughes, editor of the great journal âDignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence,â for publishing my article "Why Are Men So Obsessed with Pornography? Andrea Dworkin Was Right."
digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/vol1...
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Why Are Men So Obsessed with Pornography? Andrea Dworkin Was Right
By Robert Jensen, Published on 07/01/25
https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/vol10/iss3/6/
8 months ago
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French translation of my latest article on pornography and Andrea Dworkin:
tradfem.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/p...
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Pourquoi les hommes sont-ils autant obsédés par la pornographie ? Andrea Dworkin avait raison
ROBERT JENSEN: « Si un mouvement politique proposait une analyse perspicace dâun phĂ©nomĂšne social destructeur et que, des dĂ©cennies plus tard, cette analyse sâavĂ©rait plus juâŠ
https://tradfem.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/pourquoi-les-hommes-sont-ils-tellement-obsedes-par-la-pornographie-andrea-dworkin-avait-raison/
8 months ago
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Yesterday I spoke to the National Organization for Men Against Sexism conference on âWhy are men so obsessed with pornography? Andrea Dworkin was right.â The text is online at
juliebindel.substack.com/p/why-are-me...
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Why are men so obsessed with pornography?
Andrea Dworkin was right
https://juliebindel.substack.com/p/why-are-men-so-obsessed-with-pornography
8 months ago
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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
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New Album Reviews â Lonesome Highway
Simeon Hammond Dallas Seventeen self release The third EP from London native Simeon Hammond Dallas sees her looking back on her life, friendships and relationships to date as she enter...
https://www.lonesomehighway.com/music-reviews/2025/7/14/new-album-reviews
8 months ago
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After reading a NYT story about the cultural obsession with being âhot,â 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...
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Pornographic distortions: The struggle for intimacy in the 21st Century
Pornography impedes love, intimacy, respect, and connection. Yet many continue to defend it.
https://www.feministcurrent.com/2021/03/28/pornographic-distortions-the-struggle-for-intimacy-in-the-21st-century/
8 months ago
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I just learned that
Academia.edu
is producing AI summaries of articles. Hereâs one of my post-9/11 essays. AI Podcast of "September 11 and the failures of American intellectuals"
www.academia.edu/ai_podcast/9...
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Academia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers
Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.
https://Academia.edu
8 months ago
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Why I donât endorse patriotism, a chapter from my 2004 book Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity, online at
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https://robertwjensen.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Citizens-of-the-Empire-Chapter-3-Patriotism-pdf.pdf
8 months ago
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I had an engaging conversation about men and feminism with DĂ©vashi Shakti for her âBeyond Patriarchal Sexâ podcast. Thanks to her for the thoughtful questions.
devashi-shakti.mykajabi.com/podcast
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Podcast
https://devashi-shakti.mykajabi.com/podcast
9 months ago
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