thank you to chris scalia in joshua are wanting my company.nd i want to talk a little bit about what you could call and effort coming mostly from the left to create change through language. but also of course has pitfalls and probably a lot of us. thesee days over the past four maybe five years terminology is shifting we don't say that particular way base of command one is not to say comes from somewhere and one is expected we have coming from especially some universities where it has been stipulated for example by a list that came out of brandeis for that could be construed as offensive to people who might bl having psychological problems. you do not want to say walk in as an service in a store. because that is biased against people who might not have things like that. it can make it difficult to know where to get on. that comes from many places. it deserves i think more forbearance then we are always inclined to give. you can feel there c are a group of people who were trying to catch you out. and of course is a certain degree of smugness. a

i'm chris scalia a senior fellow here and this is part of the lecture series.t of aei's esteemed bradley lectures, america's premier public intellectuals to address the significant social and cultural challenges facing our nation as we approach our 250th birthday. we've distributed flyers, listing some of our upcoming lectures. our next event scheduled for february will feature commentary editor speaking about the state of american culture. that's february 13th, so mark your calendar and bring a valentine. numerous online sources credit the left wing activist saul walensky, he who controls language controls. >> as aristotle says they're never wrong about quotations. the george orwell's novel remains so haunting, a depiction of how a totalitarian reseem can control people by cracking down what words they use. we sense some truth in the novelist angela carter's observation that language is power, the instrument of domination and liberation. this belief that the words we use actively shape our political beliefs and behavior crosses partisan lines, but in our conte

thank you especially to chris scalia and joshua katz for wanting my company. what you could call an effort coming mostly from the left to create change through language, which can seem so wise at first but also has pitfalls and probably frustrates a lot of us. one manifestation of that is that these days, especially over the past four, maybe five years, one gets the sense that terminology keeps shifting under our feet, that there are always new ways of saying things that if we don't say it in that particular way, we are craving some kind of-- creating some kind of tort. you would like to have you have some basic command over your own language, and you find out you don't. one is not to say, for example, "homeless" at this point. it is now "unhoused." that seems to come from somewhere, and one is expected to subscribe to it. or you might have something coming from especially some universities where it has been stipulated, for example, by a list that came out of brandeis and another out of stanford that you shouldn't say "crazy" under any circumstances because th

joining me now chris landau law clerk for justices scalia and thomas and ambassador for mexico and will & friends weekend" co-host. both of you have great to see. chris, which of the moves that i just mentioned are the most egregiously unconstitutional? >> laura, i think you have got to start with the proposal to change the supreme court tenure and to say that supreme court justices no longer serve for life. that's attacking the very fabric of our government and the major check on the executive branch. i think if that goes, our whole system of government goes. so it's hard to be more radical than that. >> laura: will cain, this seems to be the norm now for kamala and company. especially in the waning weeks of this campaign. they are going to blow up the constitution. but we're going to shred it and hope money mentions it. how does any of this ultimately bring people back into the fold? >> only by fear. by scaring them with lies. you know, i was just sitting there listening to the clip that you played laura, i'm sitting here thinking when does he say set aside the constitution. then i ha