<p>What the heck is the “Yale federalist club”? </p>
<p>The “Federalist Society” is mainly a lawyers’ organization with intellectual conservative leanings. I believe it was started by students at Yale, Harvard, and Chicago law schools (a number of whom had been Yale undergraduates but not all of them). It most certainly exists at Harvard.</p>
<p>The “Federalist Party” is one of four or five flavors of politically conservative parties that are part of the Yale Political Union, and as such one of many testaments to the schismatic tendencies of Ivy League conservatives. I don’t think there is any exact counterpart to the Yale Political Union at Harvard, which is sort of a pity, because it means that government geeks and politics junkies there probably have a lot less fun and fewer hookups. (Fun and sex are integral to the actual operation of the Yale Political Union, no matter what its charter says.)</p>