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Authored by Michael Pate on September 19th, 2003 at 11:49 PM

The most interesting reaction to all this comes from people who live in societies that have recently thrown off authoritarian regimes or still live without much political freedom. “Americans seem very cavalier about politics,” one Middle Eastern journalist told me. “Perhaps if they lived without free speech for a few years they would use it more often.” - Robert Jensen

I certainly can see that the University of Texas at Austin is a perfect example of his “rightward shift” with Dr. Jensen on campus.

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Robert W. Jensen Home Page
Through Eyes of Foreigners: U.S. Political Crisis

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