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RobertJensen wrote a new diary post: Delivering educational products: The job formerly known as teaching
by Robert Jensen Hi, I’m Robert Jensen, a provider of educational products to consumers at the University of Texas at Austin. I used to introduce myself as a UT professor, but that was before I attended a Texas Public Policy Foundation session, http://www.texaspolicy.com/events.php, last week offering more exciting “breakthrough solutions” to the problems of higher education. [...]
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RobertJensen wrote a new diary post: Listening to Life, before it’s too late: An interview with Ellen LaConte
by Robert Jensen People of conscience face two crucial challenges today: (1) Telling the truth about the dire state of the ecosphere that makes our lives possible, no matter how grim that reality, and (2) remaining committed to collective action to create a more just and sustainable world, no matter how daunting that task. It’s [...]
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RobertJensen wrote a new diary post: Technological Fundamentalism: Why Bad Things Happen When Humans Play God
by Robert Jensen If humans were smart, we would bet on our ignorance. That advice comes early in the Hebrew Bible. Adam and Eve’s banishment in chapters two and three of Genesis can be read as a warning that hubris is our tragic flaw. In the garden, God told them they could eat freely of [...]
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RobertJensen commented on the diary post “All That We Share” Isn’t Enough by RobertJensen.
Jay: I certainly understand your strategy, but I think you are misreading our options and presenting false alternatives. You say you want “to push out beyond self-identified leftists to people who … are not ready to sign on to an explicit anti-capitalist/anti-industrial agenda.” I agree, but that statement implies that any discussion of the pathological [...]
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RobertJensen wrote a new diary post: “All That We Share” Isn’t Enough
A review of All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons/How to Save the Economy, the Environment, the Internet, Democracy, Our Communities, and Everything Else That Belongs to All of Us by Jay Walljasper and On the Commons The New Press, 2010, 288 pages, $18.95 by Robert Jensen All That We Share is an [...]
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RobertJensen wrote a new diary post: Elections: The Day After
November 2 is going to be a big day in our political lives. But November 3 will be far more important. On mid-term Election Day, voters will choose between candidates with different positions on health-care insurance, withdrawal from Afghanistan, and CO2 levels that drive global warming. The politicians we send to the legislatures and executive [...]
