How We Got Here

by David Frum

Perhaps a word ofbackground about what I'm doing here in these unexpected surroundings. Andrewand I have been acquainted since the mid-1980s, when he was a Harvard graduatestudent and I was enrolled in the law school. I led a section of the lateJudith Shklar's class in the Government department. The section met in aclassroom that was used by a section led by Andrew that ended immediatelybefore. All semester I wiped his handwriting off the blackboard, but I don'tthink we ever...