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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
Everything You Know About Watergate Is Wrong, Part 1
Writing about the Watergate scandal in the 1980s, political scientist John Marini said “The passage of time has not resulted in greater clarity concerning what it is we should have learned from the e…
00:51:42 |
Fri 01 Jul 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour on The Supreme Court's Banner Week, with John Yoo
Has there been a more momentous week for the Supreme Court ever? The Court went three-for-three on the key cases this week ( Carson, on school choice; Bruen, on gun rights: and Dobbs, overturning Roe…
00:58:17 |
Sat 25 Jun 2022
A Rant About Biden's Energy Policy, with Robert Bryce
When it comes to energy, is the Biden administration simply stupid, or blindly ideological? Yes—we should embrace the power of “and,” because these possibilities are not mutually exclusive. Indeed th…
00:39:25 |
Thu 23 Jun 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Jean Yarbrough for the Tie-Breaker
With Steve and Lucretia still locked in mortal combat over how best to understand equality, equity, prudence and related issues, and divided as bitterly over Edmund Burke as they are over whisky styl…
01:10:15 |
Sat 18 Jun 2022
More Stan Evans, on Theology and Internal Security
The penultimate chapter of my recent biography, M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom, summarizes the enduring literary, philosophical, and historical contributions of his last two b…
00:35:41 |
Tue 14 Jun 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Equality Versus Equity, Continued
A frequent recurrence to the fundamental principles of the Constitution, and a constant adherence to those of piety, justice, moderation, temperance, industry, and frugality, are absolutely necessary…
01:00:19 |
Sat 11 Jun 2022
Justice Clint Bolick, An Origin Story
When Arizona Governor Doug Ducey appointed the noted libertarian lawyer Clint Bolick to the Arizona Supreme Court in 2016, the left freaked out (so what else is new), calling his appointment “chillin…
00:39:23 |
Wed 08 Jun 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: What Is Conservatism Conserving, Anyway?
Two favorite guests and friends join us at the bar for this week’s happy hour, to hash out bar fights they started in less reputable watering holes. Jeremy Carl argues in The American Conservative th…
01:05:30 |
Sat 04 Jun 2022
Happy Anniversary: Power Line Celebrates 20 Years
The 20th anniversary is known as the “China anniversary,” and can you still use that if your predominant mode is breaking China? In any case, the Power Line crew assembled for a live (by Zoom) VIP we…
01:04:29 |
Fri 03 Jun 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Ticketron, and Other Defunct Superheroes
This week’s review of the news is more wide-ranging than usual, starting with the question of whether the release of Top Gun: Maverick will turn out to be one more small indicator that the backlash a…
01:00:55 |
Sat 28 May 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: What's In the News Today, Oh Boy!
This is the week we learned that there is a reason we’ll miss Jen Psaki at the White House (plus a shout out to the forgotten Dee Dee Myers, who looks pretty good in retrospect); that the Anthony Sca…
00:50:25 |
Sat 21 May 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Mulish Voting Edition
There are so many things that seem . . . wrong about the 2020 election, and now comes the new documentary film “2000 Mules” offering some visually compelling circumstantial evidence, along with a few…
00:50:23 |
Sat 14 May 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Special Leakgate Edition
Owing partly to travel schedules that prevent our normal and proper Friday evening happy hour to debrief the week, combined with the shocking leak of the prospective Supreme Court opinion in the Dobb…
01:08:47 |
Thu 05 May 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Dezinformatsiya Edition
This is the week the world was introduced to the O’Brien of the 21st century, Ms. Nina Jankowicz, aka the “Mary Poppins of disinformation” (her own term), who is going to lead the Biden Administratio…
01:06:14 |
Sat 30 Apr 2022
Stan Evans in His Own Words
Now that my biography of M. Stanton Evans is out, time to go back and take in Stan in his own words in podcast form. A previous podcast featured several of Stan’s greatest comedy chops, so this one h…
00:45:07 |
Thu 28 Apr 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Glenn Ellmers on the Jordan Peterson Phenomenon
Jordan Peterson took the intellectual world by storm in 2016, bursting on the scene in a way not seen by a non-leftist thinker since Allan Bloom in the late 1980s. His idiosyncratic mix of Jungian ps…
01:05:22 |
Sat 23 Apr 2022
Geopolitical Risk After Ukraine, with Terry Hallmark
Suddenly energy security and geopolitical risk is on everyone’s mind again, so we decided to consult a true expert on the subject— Terry Hallmark of the University of Houston. He currently teaches an…
00:45:32 |
Tue 19 Apr 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: CRT & Mad Max in the Classroom
First, we are pleased to appoint Lance Izumi, a previous guest on this show, to be the official whisky master of the 3WHH, even though he doesn’t drink whisky (or anything else for that matter), beca…
01:03:07 |
Sat 16 Apr 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Mad Max Postponed
Steve and Lucretia intended to head back into the seminar room in this episode, with a treatment of Critical Race Theory (because why should the 1619 Project get all the love?), and some reflections …
01:03:26 |
Sat 09 Apr 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, With Richard Samuelson on Harvard's April Fool's Prank
Historian Richard Samuelson turned up for Friday evening happy hour this week, with 14-year-old Oban in hand, to kick around this week’s less-than-neat headlines. Is it merely a coincidence that Jen …
00:55:16 |
Sat 02 Apr 2022
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