May 02, 2015
The Respect No One Wants
Some people who do badly in life never had a chance, whether because of bad genes, bad parents, and/or bad social environment. Others had every chance in the world, but…
Author: Jason Brennan
April 30, 2015
Adjuncts: Highly Paid Per Hour
For those sick of this topic, I expect this will be my last post. According to the BLS, the median hourly wage in the US is $17.09, and the mean…
April 29, 2015
More on Adjuncts: Thanks, Kevin Carson, for Further Evidence on My Behalf
Kevin Carson recently called me out on Twitter: “Here’s one of those adjuncts that Jason Brennan says could “easily quit and go to Geico” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-w-gerard/good-people-dont-get-good_b_5935690.html …” Two things wrong with this:…
April 28, 2015
Either/Or (Vel aut Aut?)
Thesis: If the Adjunct Warriors I’ve been criticizing could get over their bad faith, they’d recognize that on my account, their choosing to stay and fight has a *higher* moral status…
April 27, 2015
Is the Adjuncts’ Rights Movement Anti-Adjunct?
Consider the following: 1. Tenure-track (or other long-term, full benefits) faculty jobs are expensive, while contingent and adjunct faculty are cheap. Georgetown pays adjuncts a much better rate than most…
April 26, 2015
This Exists
From PrecariCorps. This made my day. As one of my Facebook friends remarked, “If PhD grads aren’t qualified to the point of being responsible for their labor mistakes,…