ABSTRACT
More or less at the same time, I heard on the grapevine that Patrick Jackson had joined the faculty of the School of International Service at American University, where I had taught for many years before leaving in 1994, and I read the piece, mentioned in his essay, that he wrote with Dan Nexon in 1999 while they were graduate students. I had been waiting to see what the School would do about replacing me as house theorist. The wait was worth it. The School hired someone who, despite his youth, was an accomplished social theorist.
