Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
The case against Chegg in a nutshell
Note: this blog post is the fourth in a multi-part series on “the law and ethics of Chegg.” Thus far, we have seen how students use Chegg to cheat (see my 8.16 post “The Napster of cheating“), and we have … Continue reading
Chegg is evil: change my mind
Note: this blog post is the third in a multi-part series on “the law and ethics of Chegg.” Is Chegg evil? This is the question I posed to my students in the spring of 2021, when I discovered that many … Continue reading
Argument by analogy: Chegg is the Rick Singer of college cheating
Note: this blog post is the second in a multi-part series on “the law and ethics of Chegg.” Remember Rick Singer? He was the alleged mastermind of the now-infamous College Admissions Bribery Scandal. In summary, in March of 2019, federal … Continue reading
Joe Biden is our Neville Chamberlain
Although it was Trump people’s who negotiated the now-infamous withdrawal deal with representatives of the Taliban last year (see picture below, right), Joe Biden’s incompetent implementation of this illicit agreement, his continued prevarications (see here), and our pusillanimous surrender in … Continue reading
Monday map (Taliban takeover edition)
I am interrupting my series on “the law and ethics of Chegg,” which will resume on Tuesday morning, in order to let everyone know that the distance between the Arg (Presidential Palace), which is now under the Taliban’s control, and … Continue reading
Chegg: the Napster of cheating?
Note: this blog post is the first in a multi-part series on “the law and ethics of Chegg.” What is Chegg? I want to begin my series by describing what Chegg is and by explaining how college students use Chegg … Continue reading
Chegg and the cheating pandemic
Originally posted on prior probability:
According to this recent report by Susan Adams (via Forbes), more and more college students are using Chegg and other similar “study” platforms to cheat on their online exams and assignments. Starting next month, I…
Thanks for nothing, Joe
What a disaster: the USA is about to lose another costly, protracted, and unpopular war! Via this report in The Wall Street Journal: “After 20 years of war, much of what the U.S. sought to accomplish in Afghanistan crumbled in … Continue reading
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
Five-hundred years ago today (August 13), in the year 1521 A.D., the darkest day in Mexican history occurred: Spanish forces led by conquistador Hernán Cortés captured the Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc and conquered the capital of Tenochtitlan, a map of which … Continue reading
Medieval Village (Beynac, Dordogne, France)
File under: places I would like to visit! Via the Arid Travel blog: https://aridtravel.wordpress.com/

