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Welcome to the Vile Body, an informal collective of youngish (25 to 40) conservative and libertarian intellectuals; liberals need not apply. Anywhere from 20 to 60 or more of these best and rightest meet for cocktails once a month at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, to schmooze, network and, above all, exchange ideas and witticisms. The name of the group, proposed by Metropolitan's writer-director Whit Stillman, echoes the title of a brittle comedy by Evelyn Waugh, an author much admired by many Vile Body regulars. Says Terry Teachout, 34, who writes editorials for the New York...