Words are civilisation’s golden-thread: the durable link from Homer to Orwell that turns tribes into free peoples. Yet our own elites now treat language as toxic waste to be inspected, licensed or burned. This lecture storms through 2,000 years to show why killing words means killing the West itself. Lose the freedom to read and speak, and the West’s hard-won gains – from Shakespeare to the Suffrage – unravel overnight.
