* Why Adjunct Professors Don’t Just Find Another Job? There is a lot of blah-blah-blah in this article, because the real answer is something kind, like “They’re acculturated to academia,” or something less kind but equivalent, like “Despite advanced degrees, they’re stupid.”
* The Art of Translation: William Weaver, who translated The Name of the Rose.
* “Why the Marriage Plot Need Never Get Old” (unlikely).
* “Simple answers to the questions that get asked about every new technology,” in comic form.
* “Why Men are Withdrawing from Courtship.”
* I edited “An economic model of paid sex: Coase’s ‘The Nature of the Firm,’ gains from trade, and the gift economy.”
* Related to link one: “Death of a Professor: An 83-year-old French instructor’s undignified death became a cause célèbre for exploited academics. But what really happened to Margaret Mary Vojtko?” Side note: this is an extreme example showing why it’s not a great idea to start a humanities grad program.
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re adjuncts and new jobs: my vote is for your second, less kind explanation.
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