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Good one. Has the extra added advantage of making me glad I didn't go to Harvard. It would have been, as William Shawn said to me after interviewing me for a staff position at the New Yorker, "You would not fit in here." He was correct about the New Yorker, and he would have been correct about Harvard, from which more than a few New Yorker staffers graduated.

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James Q. Wilson has lots of defendersтАФat least his big "Bureaucracy". (& I am one of them: that he had written that slipped me mmind.) Also early-period Huntington, but I confess that I do not (yet) see the attraction...

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