"Intellectual upbringing" is huge: correctly pronouncing the shibboleths, hearing all of the dog-whistles, yet never whistling the wrong one. Saying the righ

"Intellectual upbringing" is huge: correctly pronouncing the shibboleths, hearing all of the dog-whistles, yet never whistling the wrong one. Saying the right thing, but in the wrong way, has ended many an academic career. Ex-wife is an English professor. Department-wide "purges" were not unheard of. She was spared, though this was probably because she was a lowly adjunct.