EDWARD BRYAN PORTIS is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Max Weber and Political Commitment: Science, Politics, and Personality. His articles dealing with topics in political theory and social inquiry have appeared in Social Science Quarterly, Polity, Political Studies, PS, Administration and Society, Sociological Inquiry, The Review of Politics and other professional journals.MICHAEL B. LEVY is Administrative Assistant to Senator Lloyd Bentsen and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. He has published articles in Political Theory, Western Poliical Quarterly, Polity, and The Review of Politics. He has edited two anthologies, one on American political thought, the other on the future of liberalism.