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I was born ready. Welcome back to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger that's David French and he got a special

episode for you today. So we're going to play for you the entirety of Barry

Weiss's speech to the Federal Society National Convention for the Barbara

Kay Olson Memorial Lecture. Why? Well, it was unusual in a number of regards.

One, while not unheard of for a non-lawyer to deliver this speech to the Federalist Society, it's pretty

unusual. And certainly, Barry Weiss was herself an unusual speaker at this event, but it was also what she decided to talk about.

And I hope you will all enjoy it, and especially her tribute to Barbara Olson, who the lecture is named after.

But she talks about anti-Semitism being a warning system.

And while she doesn't use this analogy, I will, it's almost like the smoke alarm. It means fires coming. It may not be there yet, but

anti-Semitism as a smoke alarm in all of these Western democracies or liberalized governments as anti-Semitism spreads.

It is a warning system, as she described it, to let you know that the vandals are coming.

Vandalism, not the type that we think of with graffiti now,

but actually the vandals, you know, those folks who sacked the Rome.

And there's another part of the speech that really struck a chord with me

on ally ship, a term that we associate most closely with the left.

But here's Barry Weiss, a liberal woman married to a woman who's speaking at the Federalist Society, right?

Like, not a whole lot uncommon on its surface.

And yet, this is what actual ally ship is.

It doesn't mean that you adopt the other person's principles.

It in fact means that you don't, but rather that you find that common ground and

instead pursue that together, accepting the other person's differences of opinions, differences of principles, differences of even

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