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Recent Posts

• Baddest of the Bad
• Learning to Remember: After March 4
• Scientific American: Academic ‘Labor Market Gone Seriously Awry’
• MLA Confidential, Part 1
• Howard Zinn: A Public Intellectual Who Mattered
• Kindle or Netbook?
• Occupy the AHA!
• History “Job Czar” Shuts Down Phd Production (PhD “Oversupply” Continues For Two Decades)
• Who’s A Historian to the AHA?
• At the AHA: Huh?
• “I Re-wrote those Motherfuckers from Scratch”
• Spring Appearances
• UC Davis Occupiers Force Negotiations
• Students Occupy UC President’s Office
• Berkeley Standoff via Microblog; Trade Press Whupped By Mass Media
• Occupation Movement Sweeps California
• California is Burning
• Pay to Work? GEO Says No!
• Festive Disobedience, or, Direct Action Can Be Fun
• The Audacity of Audacity
• Conversion to Tenure
• Is Your ‘Fiscal Crisis’ Real?
• The Occupation Will Be Televised
• Will Occupation Become A Movement?
• Police Arrest UCSC Occupiers
• “This is Only the Beginning: We Left in Order to Escalate”
• We Are Our Own Worst Enemies: 5 Minutes with Yours Truly
• “Occupy and Escalate”: Inside the Barricades at UC Santa Cruz
• Upcoming appearances
• Walking to Save UC
• Dismal Science Fiction
• Act Now, Save 40%
• We’re All Oakland AAUP
• The Real Boudreaux
• “Private” vs “For-Profit” in the Health-Care Debate
• Featured in Prize-winning Article, A Whistle-Blower is Fired
• Terminating California
• The NYT Gets One Right, At Last
• School Reform Globalized: Boarding Schools for Everyone!
• Summer School For Faculty
• Our Wal-Mart “Education President”
• Colorado Judge Mugs Churchill
• The Figure of Writing and the Future of English Studies
• Single Payer, The New American Exception
• No Problem With Student Debt?
• My Credo: We Work
• May Day Meditation
• More Drivel From the New York Times
• Sometimes I Growl: Remembering the Wyoming Resolution
• Junk Analysis of Higher Ed by the NY Times
• When “Bad” is Right
• This Ain’t the New School
• Churchill to Appear in Pennsylvania Before Court Date
• 17 Years From Today
• Stimulating Higher Ed: Going the Wrong Way on the Beltway
• Meet Maria
• Vindication for Grad Employees at the NLRB
• America’s Least Dangerous Professors
• Hello To All That
• Diablo Cody Meets Steven Spielberg
• Early Learning
• Excellence in America: The Epidemiology of Wal-mart
• Mama, Don’t Let Your Kids Grow Up to Be Grad Students
• (updated) Appearances 2009
• Blunders in the MLA Staffing Report
• The MLA Report on the Academic Workforce in English
• An Extra Half-million in Every Pot
• Gifts For Academics
• Taking the Austerity Bait Will Shatter Obama’s Plans For Higher Ed
• Tennessee Takes “Turkey at the Top” Award
• Faith-based economics
• Administrators are Modestly Underpaid, but Faculty are Super-Exploited
• Iraq War Ends–Bush Indicted For Treason
• Boots on the Ground, Eyeballs on the Screen
• Facebook the Vote!
• He’s Batman
• Two Views of the Current Crisis
• Colleges Welcome Women Faculty
• Ink for Obama
• Are You Part of the Solution?
• Derek Bok and the Cult of Business
• Appearances 2008-2009
• Friends of Bill
• Higher Ed and the New New Deal
• McLiar Bingo
• Drill, Baby, Drill
• The University Against Itself
• Milestones
• Laissez-Faire Bingo
• The Ritalin Generation
• Oppositional and Defiant–Or Critical Thinker?
• 22,000 Member CUNY Union Ratifies Contract
• Carnegie Mellon Stiffs the Humanities
• Faculty Serving Contingently “Take Long Course in Poverty”
• AAUP Completes Dream Team
• Downwardly Mobile!
• 30 Seconds From Humiliation
• Certify, Re-Tool, or Stand and Fight
• Ivory Tower Inc, Coerce U, and other Recent Reviews
• ‘Adjuncts’ to the Barricades!
• Pushback
• I’ll be Watching You
• Ballad of the Dissertators
• The Churchill Case Goes To Trial
• AAUP and the Ward Churchill case
• AP Profile of Cary Nelson
• 5000 Postdocs Choose UAW
• Hiatus Until July 21
• Educated into Astonishing Ignorance
• The Painter and The Gangsters
• South Carolina, Where You Have the Right To Work–But Not To Eat
• Happy Fourth?
• Poverty In Higher Ed
• What I’m Reading Now
• Meet the Trustees, Part 1: Trustees Behind Bars
• They’ll Be Watching You
• Maybe He Can’t
• Academic Labor Bookshelf
• Job Listing #666
• Psst! Forward this Link to Grad Students
• Don’t Miss COCAL VIII
• Extreme Work-Study
• High Noon for Academic Freedom
• Summer Reading
• “Because I Can.”
• Governance Speech No Longer Protected in Public Universities?
• McGill Dubs Grads Naughty Children
• More Part-Time Faculty Win Job Security
• Quality Trolls Go After minnesota review
• Grad Student Union Launched at U Chicago
• Organizing Abraham Lincoln
• McGill Joins the Bush League
• Kennedy Introduces Bill on Graduate Employment
• Student Unrest in Chicago
• McGill Grad Employees Strike!
• Teach the University!
• The Video Series
• The Last Professors?
• Second Printing of HTUW in Warehouses Now
• Book-related Appearances in April 2008
• Do The Right Thing, Irvin
• Job Security for Contingent Faculty
• When A “Job Market” Isn’t One
• Amazon Drops Price To $15.84
• Quality-Managing The Country
• Walkout!
• Linguistics for Administrators
• Teaching for Lust
• The Reluctant Revolutionary
• You have no Job Security, But We’ll Tell the Government You Do
• Permatemping is the Global Warming of Our Professional Lives
• Yeah, baby. $125,000 starting wage for teachers–and just $90,000 for the administrator.
• Like The Wire? You’re Living It.
• (Mailbag) The Telos of Greed
• Travel/Speaking/Interview Schedule
• Crush Them, Gigantor!–An analysis of the notion that everyone else is a rhetorician.
• Trachtenberg 2: The Academic Working Poor
• Response to Stephen Trachtenberg, Part 1
• Eighteen Years from Now
• But I Need this Class to Pay for Chemo!

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