With skills practised over the course of almost four decades here, he manoeuvres his horse to round up a group of recalcitrant, russet-coloured calves, heading off their meanderings with an authoritative click of his tongue.

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As a writer for small magazines like Commentary and The Reporter, and later for The Public Interest, Moynihan had been acquainted with many of the participants and their subsequent ideological meanderings, some of which mirrored his own.

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