One of the things that happens when you go to graduate school in the humanities is that they try to deromanticize the humanities for you. This is funny, when you think about it. Even during the Cold War economic expansion, when you could get a job-for-life on the strength of a monograph or two (if that), humanities academe was understood to be one of the less remunerative forms of white-collar employment, and if a person can slug their way through