The Adjuncting of Academia: Reflections on the Increasingly Temporary Nature of Work
In the future, we will all be adjuncts of one kind or another.
Tagged: income inequality
Driving Blind: The Humanities Die and Superman Returns
Digby argues that MSNBC’s ratings aren’t down because of quality issues, but rather that a large part of its liberal base is currently alienated and indifferent. Some are defending the humanities against digital aggression,...
Noah Smith Trolls Working Class
Noah Smith has a plan for closing the “wealth gap.” The solution? Thrift!
Health is the War of the State
Healthcare is a political football in every Western country to some extent. In countries with extensive government healthcare the debate is about what the government should pay for, in the US it’s about whether...
The Conscience of a Liberal
Despite modern liberalism’s sweeping scope, no one seems to know quite what it is. Liberalism appeared somewhere in the sixteenth century—“St. George, in the guise of Rationality,” as Kenneth Minogue puts it—to slay the...
