That she gave the speech says more than anything she could have said in her speech.

From Bari Weiss's Speech for the Ages by Ilya Shapiro.  The subheading is I was in "the room where it happened" at the Federalist Society national lawyers convention.

What to do about our realization that progressivism is anti-semitism?  That is perhaps the core of Weiss's speech.  She suggests four things need to be done.

1.  Observe, recognize and acknowledge what is happening.

2.  Enforce the law.

3.  Speak truthfully and equally.

4.  Fight the encroachment of totalitarianism and authoritarianism.

Fair enough.  Especially regarding enforcing the law.

However, I think there is a message above and beyond the contents of the speech and that is the fact of the speech itself.

Bari Weiss is historically of the left and probably historically an ardent Democrat.  The Federalist Society is historically of the right and where not Republican, either Libertarian or Classical Liberal.  

Here you have the Federalist Society extending an invitation to deliver one of their most important speeches in the year to someone who is nominally their antithesis.  Here is Weiss willing to enter the lion's den and engage with those whom she might have good reason to believe to be ideologically inhospitable to her.  And here you have both parties enjoying a meeting of the mind, the speech cheered to the rafters.

That perhaps says more than anything she could have said in her speech.  Good as that appears to have been.

I think, and certainly hope, we will see more and more of this in coming years.  There are already plenty of instances where this has happened.  We are a Classical Liberal nation whose tradition tends to be cherished by Conservatives (they want to conserve the ideological revolution), Libertarians, and Moderates of the Classical Liberal tradition.  Heterodox Academy was merely one of many examples that began emerging in the past five years as Classical Liberal moderates who had affiliated with the progressive Social Justice Movement and its many Marxist manifestations (Critical Race Theory, Social Justice Theory, Postmodernism, Decolonialism Theory, BLM, AGW, etc.) began to realize that all of those movements were one and the same and were forms of totalitarianism and authoritarianism and incompatible with the tenets of Classical Liberalism (rule of law, equality before the law, due process, natural rights, property rights, consent of the governed, individualism, rational empiricism, etc.)  

Weiss gave a fine speech, a cry for all who profess a Classical Liberal world view, to stand together and stand up and fight authoritarianism and totalitarianism in all its forms.  

A speech worth reading.