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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
- 560
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
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
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Burke, Natural Right, and Free Speech
Hoo boy! This week’s fiery episode takes up the argument leftover from last week about whether conservatism—and especially the new “national” variety that is sparking so much energy and enthusiasm ri…
01:15:55 |
Sat 22 Oct 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Biggest Farce Contest
With John Yoo in the host chair this week, we get off to a rocky start because a certain friend of ours made a favorable reference to Edmund Burke in a draft article shared with us in advance of publ…
01:02:39 |
Sat 15 Oct 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Juris-Thermo-Armageddon Edition
For the left, we have arrived at juris-thermo-geddon. If the Ruskies don’t nuke us, then the Supreme Court is going to nuke the Constitution! The Doomsday Clock at leftist institutions everywhere is …
01:00:21 |
Sat 08 Oct 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: From Command and Control to Fascism
This week offers a hybrid car of an episode—almost literally as it turns out—as John Yoo was traveling midweek when Lucretia and Steve gathered in person with Richard Samuelson to record the first ha…
01:07:15 |
Sat 01 Oct 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: From Star Wars to Law Wars
This week the gang revisits the taxonomy of which Star Wars characters map properly onto the domain of the New Rebel Alliance, aka, the “national conservatives” we discussed in some detail last week,…
01:10:36 |
Fri 23 Sep 2022
Cleveland Rocks, with Troy Senik
Move over Calvin Coolidge: Grover Cleveland has a valid claim to being regarded as the most constitutionally faithful and fiscally frugal president since the Civil War—a case made splendidly in Troy …
00:50:23 |
Tue 20 Sep 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Drink Up for Constitution Day!
Today is Constitution Day, so naturally conversation at the 3WHH bar turned directly to the question of whether the state-mandated observances of Constitution Day in public colleges and universities …
01:21:19 |
Sat 17 Sep 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: God Save the Queen
With John Yoo sitting in the host chair this week, we decided to post this episode a day early partly on account of travel schedules (John and Steve are head for the NatCon conference in Miami), and …
01:05:37 |
Fri 09 Sep 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Behind Biden's F-Bomb
The setting for Biden’s speech was so bad that it rivals Michael Dukakis’s tank ride for disastrous visuals, but that’s noting compared to the egregious content, which makes Jimmy Carter’s dreadful “…
01:20:24 |
Sat 03 Sep 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Back to School
Once again the three-host Three Whisky Happy Hour didn’t get around to any whisky reviews, distracted once again by important breaking fast-food news. But the main first topic of this back-to-school …
01:07:58 |
Sat 27 Aug 2022
Two Cheers for the Climate Bill? Alex Trembath Explains
The heart of the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA) is a massive increase in subsidies for “green energy,” which normally summons a gag reflex from most conservatives. But the iconoclasts at t…
01:03:06 |
Thu 25 Aug 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, Raiding Everything
John Yoo assumes the rotating host chair for this week’s episode, since Steve was on the road much of the week and didn’t keep up with news that didn’t involve whisky (and mermaids). We review what t…
01:06:56 |
Sat 20 Aug 2022
"America Never Existed"—Say What!?
Glenn Ellmers has done it again, with a fresh provocation entitled “ America Never Existed.” Say what?!?! Did he drink some 1619 Moonshine or something? Here’s his lede: It is possible (not certain, …
00:51:26 |
Tue 16 Aug 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, Now With Three Hosts!
With this episode of the Three Whisky Happy Hour, the great John Yoo joins up as a permanent co-host along with Steve and Lucretia, having spent the last several weeks in Triple-A podcast instruction…
01:10:34 |
Sat 13 Aug 2022
The Three McRibb Happy Meal Podcast, Crashed Again
If I stay overseas any longer, it’s pretty clear the usurpation of the 3wHH will morph into the “The McRibb Happy Meal Podcast” if I don’t put a stop to it, so I made sure to disrupt this week’s epis…
01:23:23 |
Sat 06 Aug 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Coup and Counter-Coup!
I can’t believe I had to crash my own podcast today to blunt the slow-rolling coup that Lucretia and John Yoo started last week in my absence, but by the miracle of the internet I did just that, drop…
01:06:35 |
Sat 30 Jul 2022
The Three-Whisky Happy Hour, with Guest Bartender John Yoo
I can’t believe I left the car keys to the podcast sitting on the kitchen counter when I left for overseas, and now Lucretia and John Yoo have snatched them up and usurped the usufructs of the 3WHH. …
01:15:21 |
Sat 23 Jul 2022
Everything You Know About Watergate Is Wrong, Part 2
In this second half of my conversation with Geoff Shepard (part 1 here, if you missed it), we walk through the famous “smoking gun” Oval Office tape of June 23, 1972, which was the final straw that l…
00:57:04 |
Tue 05 Jul 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Clarence>Cassidy
The big news story this week was the appearance of the fetching Fawn Hall Cassidy Hutchinson before the Watergate January 6 select committee, which somehow put us in the frame of mind of “Cassidy” by…
01:06:01 |
Sat 02 Jul 2022
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