I was distressed by the factual distortion and ad hominem attacks by Stephen Bennett on my scholarship and the professional competence of David Brunori and Gregory Kasza in the June 2002 issue of PS. In Bennett's eagerness to discredit the “Perestroika movement” he made inaccurate and personally disparaging comments about particular scholars and writers. There are several examples of this. The first is his remark that “(Ronald) Libby and “many midcareer political scientists have given up on research and writing” (204)”