richard epstein is the lawrence, a tisch professor of law at new york university, a senior lecturer at university of chicago and a senior fellow at stanford's hoover institution. his countless writings include simple rules for a complex world an liberal constitution. before him, we'll hear from professor deirdre mccloskey. she holds the cato institute's isaiah berlin, chair of liberal thought. she's a distinguished pross emerita of economics and of history at the university of illinois at chicago. her myriad books include the bourgeois virtues, ethics for an age of commerce and i think most recently, why liberalism works. how true liberal values produce a freer, more equal, prosperous world for all. but first, we'll hear from christopher demuth. chris is the heritage foundation's distinguished fellow in american thought and heritage's b, kenneth simon center for american studies. but in this building, we think of him first and foremost as president of aei from 1986 to 2008, following his public service in the reagan and nixon administrations. every day on my way into the building, i tu

epstein little late. well, that one, alec baldwin, richard nixon, throughout our history. we've. so we've seen how, when you are targeted, when you don't serve a purpose anymore, there after you, let me say one thing about these democrats, they are so good. they are vicious. and the biggest thing is that with the republicans in particular, that they never thought the people would be this route was. they never thought for a moment. like from biggest mistake was he never went after hillary clinton, who by the way, it was just surfaced this week, the 2016 she and her campaign basically did the same thing involving uh, this uh, a steel memo where she and her, her basically her, um, a committee or what have you, basically paid for this particular lie and called at a business expense, or rather a legal expenses versus something else. so this is goes on all the time. be careful, joe biden. as he said, jack read you remember, you wanted this, you one last year. 2 people can play it. this saving goes for your evolves bon under. but why don't i got? i got a question. you gave me a long lis