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Steven Hayward, John Yoo, and "Lucretia" bring you a whisky-sodden perspective on the week's big headlines, and occasional deep dives into law and philosophy.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 559
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
The Three Whisky Happy Hour Celebrates Stanford's Christmas List
As you may have heard, Stanford “University” embarrassed itself this week by issuing a list of 160 words or phrases that you shouldn’t use because they are not sufficiently “inclusive” or sensitive, …
01:05:59 |
Sat 24 Dec 2022
Introducing "Power Line University"
We get a steady stream of emails from readers and listeners who want to know if any of my or Lucretia’s college courses are webcast or otherwise available online, and unfortunately the answer is No, …
01:06:10 |
Thu 22 Dec 2022
Carpe Diem, with Mark Perry
What do you do when you wake up and see the news story of how the University of North Carolina is once again violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with a scholarship that specifically excludes white…
00:36:58 |
Wed 21 Dec 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Can Elections Be Fixed (and Not Just Rigged)?
John Yoo is back at last from yet another Italian junket—yes, Lucretia let him back across the border unharmed!—and hosts this week’s episode in which we clarify some of the over-hasty arguments from…
01:06:26 |
Sat 17 Dec 2022
Michael Walsh: "Against the Great Reset"
We live in a time of “crisis addicts,” in which the left cannot shake its addiction to what might be called “crisis porn.” Remember Rahm Emanuel proclaiming in 2009, “Never let a good crisis go to wa…
00:57:02 |
Thu 15 Dec 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: "You Went Full Lincoln, John—Never Go Full Lincoln!"
Hoo boy, this week’s happy hour very nearly descended into a full-scale bar room brawl, even though we recorded in the morning over coffee instead of single-malts because John Yoo is still over in Ro…
01:20:27 |
Sat 10 Dec 2022
Ilya Shapiro on the Supreme Court
With the new Supreme Court term under way, and with several potential landmark oral arguments already in the can, I decided to catch up with Ilya Shapiro, director of constitutional studies at the Ma…
00:42:28 |
Thu 08 Dec 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, on the Crisis of Our Time
The whisky bar is short one bartender this week as John Yoo is overseas yet again to Italy for some nefarious purpose, so it’s just Steve and Lucretia slinging the 180-proof analysis of the Twitter r…
00:57:56 |
Sat 03 Dec 2022
Glenn Ellmers on "Hard Truths & Radical Possibilities"
Glenn Ellmers has done it again, with a new provocation that “the constitutional republic created by our founders no longer exists.” His article posted at American Greatness, “ Hard Truths and Radica…
01:02:33 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Special Non-Crypto Thanksgiving Edition
In this special Thanksgiving long weekend edition with John Yoo sitting in the rotating host chair, the 3WHH bartenders share some wine, whisky and food pairings from the big meal. Steve supplemented…
01:15:51 |
Fri 25 Nov 2022
On European Conservatism, with Alvino-Mario Fantini
One of my favorite journals these days is The European Conservative, edited by the intrepid Alvino-Mario Fantini out of Vienna. Printed on heavy stock paper, its articles are adorned with fabulous re…
00:50:19 |
Wed 23 Nov 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Back to School of Athens
Your Three Whisky Happy Hour bartenders wandered to Milan this week where we recorded a rare in-person episode, and since we met in Italy, naturally we taste-tested Austrian single-malt whisky, descr…
00:52:00 |
Fri 18 Nov 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The McRib Election?
Some smart aleck wag at the Daily Caller has decided this midterm was the “McRib” election, saying “Democracy is like the McRib: It comes and goes mysteriously every two years or so and it is confusi…
01:03:23 |
Sat 12 Nov 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Final Election Analysis and Predictions
With John Yoo in the host chair this week, the 3WHH bartenders enjoy some four-finger pours of mostly American whisky ahead of Tuesday’s midterm election, which Steve and Lucretia think is going to b…
01:08:12 |
Sat 05 Nov 2022
Baseball and the Midterms with Henry Olsen
With the World Series knotted at 2-2, and the mid-term election just days away, it seemed the perfect time to catch up with Henry Olsen, the premier psephologist (trying saying that word fast just on…
00:34:19 |
Thu 03 Nov 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Supreme Court the Day After
That was an extraordinary five hours at the Supreme Court yesterday—twice as long as the oral arguments were originally scheduled to last—and the longer the argument went on, the worse it seemed to g…
00:53:10 |
Tue 01 Nov 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Affirmative Action Game Day at the Supreme Court
On Monday the Supreme Court takes up the Harvard and University of North Carolina affirmative action cases in what is the Super Bowl of civil rights litigation—arguably the biggest moment for the Cou…
01:06:15 |
Sat 29 Oct 2022
Classified, With David Bernstein
Next Monday the Supreme Court takes up the Harvard and University of North Carolina affirmative action admissions cases, but before getting to the constitutional doctrine of the matter, there is a ve…
01:03:58 |
Thu 27 Oct 2022
The *Two* Whisky Happy Hour: Cleanup on Aisle 1776
Lucretia and Steve gave John Yoo the day off for this special interstitial (and abbreviated) episode that we’ll just call the *Two* Whisky Happy Hour, in which Lucretia and Steve clear up some confus…
00:36:55 |
Wed 26 Oct 2022
Richard Epstein, Censored by YouTube
Last February John Yoo and I hosted Richard Epstein, who needs no introduction for Ricochet members and listeners, for a lecture at Berkeley Law on his most recent book, The Dubious Morality of Moder…
00:44:40 |
Mon 24 Oct 2022
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