----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Dear Robin Neill, Yes, at the very end, after being pretty much right all along, I think you went wrong. History, where I teach, is increasingly a province of wonderland, where work is actually play, and the responsibility for thesis and argument dissolves into the speculative creation of wonder (where Aristotle, I think, said philosophy begins). From what I can tell of Political Science, it is trying hardest to be like a "positive science" like Economics; thus "area specialists" disappear. J. Womack ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]