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September 11 and the failures of American intellectuals

2004; Routledge; Volume: 1; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/1479142042000180935

1479-4233

Robert Jensen,

Nuclear Issues and Defense

Abstract This essay critiques the main responses to 9/11 by US intellectuals and analyzes how these reactions reinforced a determined ignorance of the consequences of US economic, foreign, and military policy and a further depoliticization of the culture in general. As a class, faculty have the resources—material and intellectual—to make a serious contribution to progressive political and social change in the world. They need to start putting those resources to work. Keywords: September 11US IntellectualsWar on TerrorismPoliticsDissent Notes Robert Jensen is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, a member of the Nowar Collective, and author of the book Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream and the pamphlet “Citizens of the Empire.” Correspondence to: Robert Jensen, School of Journalism, 1 University Station A1000, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712‐0113, USA; Email: rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu. This essay is a revised version of a talk given to the Canadian Association of University Teachers “Disciplining Dissent” conference, Ottawa, 1 November 2002. George W. Bush, White House News Conference, 11 October 2001. Text available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011011–7‐index.html. George W. Bush, O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, 27 September 2001. Text available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010927–1.html. Robert Jensen, “U.S. Guilty of Committing Own Violent Acts,” Houston Chronicle, 14 September 2001, A‐33. Text available at http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/1047072. Larry Faulkner, “Jensen's Words His Own,” Houston Chronicle, 19 September 2001, A‐39. Text available at http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/1053207#jensen. “DoD News Briefing—Secretary Rumsfeld and General Myers,” U.S. DoD News Transcript, 25 October 2001. Essays available at http://www.nowarcollective.com/analysis.htm. Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert Jensen Footnote Robert Jensen is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, a member of the Nowar Collective, and author of the book Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream and the pamphlet “Citizens of the Empire.” Correspondence to: Robert Jensen, School of Journalism, 1 University Station A1000, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712‐0113, USA; Email: rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu. This essay is a revised version of a talk given to the Canadian Association of University Teachers “Disciplining Dissent” conference, Ottawa, 1 November 2002.