Hello ladies, hello gentlemen, this is the Victor Davis Hanson show.

I'm Jack Fowler, the host, and the Star namesake that is Victor Davis Hanson.

He is the Martin and Ealy Anderson senior fellow

at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Buskey

Distinguished Fellow in history at Hillsdale College.

We are recording on February 17th, Saturday.

This particular episode should be up on the World Wide Web

on February 22nd, That's a Thursday. Also on the

World Wide Web is the Blade of Perseus. That's Victor's official website at

Victor Hansen.com. We'll talk more about that later in two days episode Victor

there's a couple of free speech matters a couple of gender matters

a two-state solution a whole smorgasborg of interesting topics to propose to you to get

your thoughts and wisdom on.

And we'll get to, let's, we'll start on, we'll get to let's start on free speech and we'll get to that right after these

important messages. We're back with the Victor Davis Hanson show.

Victor, you and I discussed this one or two episodes ago. I was a little, more than a little,

intimately involved in this case, the Michael Mann, the climatologist suing Mark Stein, we discussed the verdict against Stein over a week ago, National Review, and I was the publisher was involved and still will be involved because

Michael Mann will be bringing back all parties into the case post-trial by new legal action.

I think one thing that is interesting Victor, the law fair issue aside, you know,

let's break these institutions and individuals that have the temerity to question us, the scientists, quote unquote

scientists, is now the claim to make these people the scientists a protected class of a sort so here's

just a little chunk from an editorial in Science magazine that's based on the

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