As an official member of the ruling classes, first in a BigLaw firm and then as a Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago, he was able to make the contacts necessary to make serious bids for political office.

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But the group doesn't prescribe which concepts must be addressed, nor does it track the number of classes offered at member schools.

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It's fairly easy to be a charter member of the Tom Lehrer Club, which probably embraces a fair number of the intellectual classes and has sympathizers even in the most surprising families.

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