Robert Jensen
The Observer Review: Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
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.
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
Robert Jensen on Zealot and The Self Beyond Itself
In this essay, Robert Jensen explores two new books: Zealot by Reza Aslan and The Self Beyond Itself by Heidi M. Ravven. Read More
The Soul Seeker
A neuroscientist's search for the human essence
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
Monitoring the Myths
Monitoring the Myths BY ROBERT JENSEN War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death By Norman Solomon John Wiley & Sons 291 pages, $24.95 o put the problems of U.S. foreign and military policy into the … Read More
Alternative Futures
Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy There is no alternative. Capitalism is the only future. Free markets are the essence of democracy. How do we know? Because we are told repeatedly by smart guys from corporations and government, and by the journalists … Read More
Interview with Louis Malfaro
The organizing efforts of the University Staff Association have reminded folks that public-sector employees – people who work for state or local governments in Texas – are denied basic rights that are recognized around the world. Article 23 of the … Read More
Fleeing Whiteness
Invisible Privilege: A Memoir About Race, Class, and Gender In the year and half since a couple of essays that I wrote on white privilege and racism were published and circulated on the Internet, I have received about 800 letters, … Read More
Media Observer
Covering the Naked Emperor
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