View this link:

http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i28/28a00102.htm

This is a crazy article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about essay mills and the globalization of cheating. In retrospect, I guess it’s not surprising how pervasive plagiarism is, given the average wealth and laziness of most university students, so the inference that there would be a huge quasi-legal economy for that sort of thing also makes sense. Still, though, it’s pretty shocking, and really disappointing. Maybe more students should be forced to read Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason.

(H/t Perverse Egalitarianism.)