By John Warner. My Twitter feed is highly populated with teachers of every level, and because of this, I see a lot of expressions of fatigue. More...

By John Warner. Diets and writing are apparently hard to study scientifically. But is "scientific" study absolutely necessary for progress. More...

By John Warner. It is a fantastic list of entirely doable actions that will nonetheless disconcert many tenured folks, even some of those who consider themselves allies with contingent laborers. As one example, Childress advocates for a redirecting of faculty-controlled resources to adjunct compensation. More...

By John Warner. This past July I received a subpoena to appear in the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Tonga. Google maps suggests that if you flew direct from New Zealand to Hawai’i, you might pass over Tonga about a third of the way up. More...

By John Warner. From 2003 to 2008, I served as editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency, a daily humor website that had started in 1998. It was a very difficult and rewarding job, difficult in that it's a fair bit of pressure to make sure there's something funny to put into the universe on a daily basis while also teaching full-time (as I was), and rewarding in that it's enjoyable to work with writers to try to put funny stuff in the world. More...