The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America

by Sarah Kendzior

it is also a loss for the academics themselves, whose ability to stay employed rests on their willingness to limit the circulation of knowledge.

Paywalls codify and commodify tacit elitism.

the segregation of scholarship leads to the loss of financial support.

than they are worth when they are conditioned to feel worthless.

caste system.

The contempt for adjuncts reflects a general contempt for learning.

one of the greatest weapons of dictatorships is their ability to control information.

Imagine a system in which we value what a person does with what he has, instead of mistaking a lack of resources for a lack of ability.

College does not guarantee a job.

post-employment economy.

Americans are being conditioned to accept their own exploitation as normal.

The problem in journalism is not that people are writing for free. It is that people are writing for free for companies that are making a profit.

Americans are being conditioned to accept their own exploitation as normal.