Thanks to all of you for supporting our sometimes lonely cause. Thanks to my editors for inviting me to write for National Review — Bill Buckley for 25 years, John O’Sullivan for another nine, and Rich Lowry these past 28 years. You all know Rich, and most of you remember Bill. Let me say just

I never had the privilege of attending Yale Law School, but I had the fascination of observing it at close range for many years: First, as a college student living in a dormitory across the street; then as an agent of the university’s alumni fund trolling for high-value targets; then as partner to a dean