a handful of law students at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Chicago, sharing an enthusiasm for what one called “free-market concepts,” founded the Federalist Society. It turned out to be the monumentally important first step in the plan Horowitz’s memo had laid out. The Chicago chapter enlisted a professor at their law school who was also on the payroll of the conservative Washington think tank AEI to be their faculty adviser—Antonin Scalia.
