The academic labor market has a huge glut of aspiring professors, but most of them can do no better these days than an adjunct position. The compensation is low, the working conditions usually poor, and job security nil. Quite a few unions (including old-line industrial unions like the UAW) have been trying to unionize adjuncts, but as Jay Schalin argues in this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, that is another instance where the cure is worse than the disease. Moreover, it does nothing to solve the underlying malady, namely that our research mania leads to a great overproduction of young people with Ph.D.s.