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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
Phil Magness on the Latest 1619 Project Absurdity
It would be easier at this point to start a list that names of everything that is not caused or tainted by racism, because it is becoming absurd. The latest from Nikole Hannah-Jones is that tipping i…
00:17:10 |
Wed 30 Mar 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Judge KB Jackson—Originalist?
Is Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson an originalist? Of course not. In no possible universe will we get a Justice Jackson who turns out to be a closet moderate or even conservative. The last Democratic Sup…
00:53:23 |
Sat 26 Mar 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: On the Greatness of Stan Evans
Freshly resupplied with Laphraoig and Glen Livet, Lucretia assumes hosting duties this week to examine—and cross-examine—Steve about his new biography M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of F…
01:16:15 |
Sat 19 Mar 2022
The "Claremont Question," with Charles Kesler and John Yoo
Prof. Charles Kesler, editor of the Claremont Review of Books, and author, most recently, of The Crisis of the Two Constitutions, recently visited Berkeley to give a lecture on his book, and sit down…
00:44:01 |
Thu 17 Mar 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Perfect Storm Gathering Against the Left?
Lucretia and Steve review the week’s news, and conclude that there’s a gathering storm of doom for the left. First, the incompetence of the Biden Administration from top to bottom is impossible to di…
00:58:14 |
Sat 12 Mar 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Michael Anton on the Ukraine Crisis
The Ukraine crisis isn’t going away, and with recriminations on all sides making the rounds here at home, it seemed propitious to check in with Michael Anton, who, among other things, served on the N…
01:04:41 |
Sat 05 Mar 2022
Taking Tyrants (Like Putin) Seriously, with Waller Newell
A common theme making the rounds is that Vladimir Putin must be crazy or has badly miscalculated his interests, and therefore is extremely dangerous. In fact the problem may be much worse than that. …
00:23:28 |
Fri 04 Mar 2022
A Sit. Rep. on Ukraine with Col. Austin Bay
The “fog of war” is even foggier in the age of 24/7 news and social media, so it is impossible to know what the hell is happening on the ground in the Ukraine, let alone in Moscow. High time, then, t…
00:39:59 |
Thu 03 Mar 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Getting Right with the 14th Amendment, with Randy Barnett
Lucretia added to her intrepid legend by venturing into the asylum at Berkeley this week to record this episode in person with Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett about his new book (co-authored w…
01:06:29 |
Sat 26 Feb 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Not This Again!, with Richard Samuelson
This week we’re joined once again by the historian, political theorist, and borscht-belt comedian Richard Samuelson to break the 3WHH deadlock on “the FDR Question.” But fear not weary listeners, we …
01:04:38 |
Fri 18 Feb 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Keep on (Not) Truckin'
Even without the Canadian truckers providing the St. Crispin’s Day rally point against the Branch COVIDians, you have the feeling that this was the week the edifice started to crumble, when our bette…
00:52:33 |
Sat 12 Feb 2022
From Hollyweird to Hollywoke: ‘Virtue Bombs' with Christian Toto
Hollywood has been liberal to far-left for decades, but in recent years it has become fully Hollywoke. Christian Toto, proprietor of the invaluable Hollywood-in-Toto website, is out with a new book s…
00:45:48 |
Fri 11 Feb 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Back to the Ring on "the FDR Question"
Last week’s episode with Conrad Black defending his pro-FDR thesis generated a lot of reader interest and comments, so Lucretia and I decided to return to the boxing ring to argue out the matter de n…
01:00:49 |
Sat 05 Feb 2022
Is There a "Generation Gap" on the Right? The "Based" Think So
Almost completely ignored by conservative media, there is a growing generation gap emerging within young conservatives that in some ways resembles the “generation gap” of the 1960s which saw the new …
01:44:53 |
Thu 03 Feb 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: "The FDR Question," with Conrad Black
As regular listeners will know, Lucretia and I have debated “the FDR question” a lot, amidst a flurry of new reconsiderations among a few thinkers and places on the right who think we should hold FDR…
01:12:30 |
Sat 29 Jan 2022
A Conversation with Charles Murray and Steve Sailer, Pt. 2
After we recorded and posted part 1 of this conversation last week, the news came out that the Supreme Court will hear the Harvard/University of North Carolina affirmative action admissions cases. It…
01:00:07 |
Thu 27 Jan 2022
A Conversation with Charles Murray and Steve Sailer, Pt. 1
The idea for this episode was born on Twitter. Someone wondered if Charles Murray would be willing to do a podcast with journalist Steve Sailer, who, like Charles, is willing to confront openly the m…
01:07:18 |
Sun 23 Jan 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, on DMLA Syndrome, and Other Defects of Modernity
This week Lucretia really takes it to Steve for his advanced case of DMLAS (Deficient Meat Loaf Awareness Syndrome—and we’re not talking the baked dish here), which surely must make the next edition …
01:01:54 |
Sat 22 Jan 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, On Biden's Horrible No Good Very Bad Week
Both Steve and Lucretia get through three different whiskys each in this gala episode, recorded with a live audience on Zoom, celebrating the Biden-Harris administration’s worst week in office yet, t…
01:11:35 |
Sat 15 Jan 2022
Roy Spencer on Climate Change Censorship, and Cool Satellites
Dr. Roy Spencer of NASA and the University of Alabama at Huntsville is one of the nation’s most accomplished climate scientists, having won awards for his work developing the satellite monitoring sys…
00:35:21 |
Thu 13 Jan 2022
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