William F. Buckley

  • Going to the White House was always a big deal for Daniel Patrick Moynihan.  He was 36 years old when he was working for the Kennedy Administration as the Assistant Secretary of Labor. On the afternoon of 22 November 1963, he was lunching with two friends when the telephone rang with the news.  Disbelief. Shock.

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  • PART ONE: ON MONARCHY On February 11th, Justice Sonia Sotomayor reminded faculty and students at a Florida college that, “Our founders were hellbent on ensuring that we didn’t have a monarchy, and the first way they thought of doing this was to give Congress the power of the purse.” Her words brought to mind a

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