Public Intellectuals.

Having seen my own Ph.D. students struggle to find academic employment, I sympathize with the following proposal that the US government should provide jobs for new Ph.D.'s not able to find work in the academic marketplace. But universities have been producing more Ph.D.'s than can be employed in academia for some time now, and -- just as with the US auto companies -- a permanent solution to this problem will have to involve a substantial restructuring of the ``industry'' itself.