I was very much impressed by Andrew Stark's profound structural interpretation of the question of “Why Political Scientists aren't Public Intellectuals” (PS&P, September 2002). I do not want to rehearse or respond to his particular argument which I find quite persuasive. But, it seems to me, there is more to the story, and Stark himself provides the clue in a single sentence: “Yet if the problem is structural, the solution must be the individual.” It is this thought I want to address.