Dear HBJ (& list), I have been lurking happily, and learning a lot from the exchange. I did e-mail one of the main participants off-line, but I personally find a good deal of value in what is going on here -- and it strikes me as in many ways a great list discussion. There are sharp differences of opinions (& sometimes people may go over the line, but in general, once the discussion got started, it kept going at a pretty civil level), and I think that I am learning a lot about PCE, as well as having to think a lot about a series of methodological and epistemological issues, not only MI. (Of course, I am in the history of political theory, and so I may find myself more drawn to this kind of discussion than many others .....) Happy new year, -- Peter G. Stillman