Before we go overboard on "our democracy is gone"

[Prairie Gates]

66. I'm asking you why you don't teach graduate courses

I know perfectly well what an adjunct is, and, quite frankly, I think you know what I was asking and you're being a bit coy here. You implied that you are on the tenure track at your university, and that you are a professor. You also said that you don't teach graduate level courses. Why doesn't a tenure track faculty member teach graduate courses? Or are you in a tenure-eligible teaching faculty role? It's not clear why you're dancing around this question. You were the one who brought your own profession up, with the extremely uncommon designation of "undergraduate level professor.' Do you not have a PhD? Are you not research qualified to teach graduate courses (i.e., a certain numkber of peer reviewed publications)? Do you not have a graduate program in history? It's a simple question seeking clarification of your own statement!

I mean, it's fine to say that this is all too personal and more than you want to reveal. Hurrah. Let's go with that. But let's not continue on with this nonsense of pretending not to understand what you're being asked.