Robert Jensen

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Robert Jensen

Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and a board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center in Austin. His latest books are Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialogue and We Are All Apocalyptic Now: On the Responsibilities of Teaching, Preaching, Reporting, Writing, and Speaking Out.

By Robert Jensen:

The Observer Review: Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

by Robert Jensen | Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:36 pm CST

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Books

Reviewing The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism

Barking dogs and sinking ships: Journalism’s search for metaphor and meaning.

Thu, Mar 27, 2014 |

Texas Observer contributor and University of Texas journalism professor Robert Jensen reviews Dean Starkman's "The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism." Read More

"Jacob Wrestling the Angel," 1985.

Culture

Robert Jensen on Zealot and The Self Beyond Itself

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Mon, Oct 14, 2013 |

In this essay, Robert Jensen explores two new books: Zealot by Reza Aslan and The Self Beyond Itself by Heidi M. Ravven. Read More

Cover Story

The Soul Seeker

A neuroscientist's search for the human essence

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Thu, Jun 3, 2010 |

There’s a struggle going on inside the brain of David Eagleman for the soul of David Eagleman. That is, there might be such a struggle if Eagleman’s brain believed that Eagleman had a soul, which he is not sure about. … Read More

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Media Observer

Covering the Naked Emperor

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Fri, Jan 22, 1999 |

When the missiles and bombs rained down on Iraq in December, the irony was striking, and painfully obvious: to force Iraq to comply with United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning weapons inspections, the United States and Great Britain violated the … Read More

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