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make no mistake—this letter is bursting with Bill Buckley’s personality from start to finish.

“Short, not shallow,” is what we tell our reporters.

David Brock, a conservative apostate who became a liberal activist, described the Heritage Foundation, where he was a young fellow, as almost completely under the thumb of its wealthy sponsors. In his tell-all book Blinded by the Right, he writes, “I saw how right-wing ideology was manufactured and controlled by a small group of powerful foundation

federalism.

➊ Mission matters.

➌ Go big.

After you meet:

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