Romance about trades

Camille Paglia has finally jumped on the manual-is-intellectual bandwagon. I do kind of want to hate on her for being so late to the party, but her essay for The Chronicle Review is another concise and clear statement of what I was arguing before when I got mad at Stanley Fish. I'd like to see more academics rejecting the romanticization of their "trade" (since that is what it is).

(Of course, credit always needs to be given to relative outsider Matthew Crawford for injecting this whole conversation into the public/popular arena. The more prestigious academics are slow to join because THEY are the ones at whom the critique is most often directed.)