Steal This Education [but Buy This Article]

[Headline teaser in the Chronicle of Higher Education]

Abbie Hoffman said a revolutionary's first duty was to get away with it. Now you can.

[Byline]

By Dalton Conley

[Snarky lead paragraph]

It turns out that the yippie activist Abbie Hoffman was born a few decades too early. In his 1971 counterculture classic, Steal This Book, he devoted considerable space to discussing how to live for free. He provided survival tips, such as how to take advantage of furniture pick-up day in your neighborhood, how to Dumpster dive, and how to enroll for food stamps or for clinics to get a venereal disease cured gratis. But Hoffman went beyond that: He counseled the reader on how to get

[Rude awakening to unsuspecting reader]

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[Hint: It's yet another self-serving article about the wonders of online courses. Wouldn't Abbie be proud? I doubt it.]