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... kids were deserting literature and history to get rich in finance, and we the old guard, argued against it all and defended our shrinking corner of the humanities, not yet underfunded, but demoralized, our old centrality to the culture gone, our subjects sunk in the postmodern turmoil of civil wars over theory, or race, or gender, or social exclusion - battles that were mostly generational and unnaturally fierce.