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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
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Why the Jan. 6 Narrative is Like Climate Change
We open this first episode of the 3WHH of 2022 with the existential question: why is Lucretia so mean to Steve? Actually she has a really good reason, but you have to get all the way to the end for t…
00:57:33 |
Sat 08 Jan 2022
Steve Hayward on "America's Nervous Breakdown"
With today’s leftist Ahab-like obsession with the “insurrection” of January 6, it seems like as good a time as any to post the lecture I gave last summer in Budapest (cue scary Dracula music here) la…
00:37:38 |
Thu 06 Jan 2022
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The State of American Democracy at Year End, with Richard Samuelson
For what turns out to be the 300th Power Line podcast as well as the last episode of 2021, we decided to revert to full three-whisky mode with a live audience on Zoom, and an extended conversation wi…
01:13:31 |
Fri 31 Dec 2021
The Daily Whisky Shot: Winners & Losers of 2021
Today’s episode offers up our picks for losers and winners of the year. I won’t spill them here—you’ll just have to listen to find out—but they do fall within the obvious range, though Steve’s winner…
00:22:57 |
Thu 30 Dec 2021
The Daily Whisky Shot: COVID Politics at Year End
Today’s minicast takes in the observation of an unlikely source—Nate Silver—about how our politicized “public health” establishment worked assiduously to delay the approval of COVID vaccines last yea…
00:24:41 |
Wed 29 Dec 2021
The Daily Whisky Shot: Restoring Election Integrity
The historical record notes that George Washington used to include ample supplies of whisky to distribute to voters and campaign workers in the elections of the 1790s, so the subject of election inte…
00:26:20 |
Tue 28 Dec 2021
This Week Only: The Daily Whisky Show
The week after Christmas is the interregnum where we attempt to resume a more moderate level of eating and drinking before the football-anchored binge of New Year’s Eve, and so instead of one three-w…
00:25:54 |
Mon 27 Dec 2021
What's Wrong with Star Trek: TNG, and Other Sci-Fi Thoughts, with Ken Green
Okay, this episode, intended as a respite from all-issues-all-the-time for the holiday week, also doubles as pure James Lileks bait. Back when Ken Green and I were resident scholars at the American E…
00:54:37 |
Wed 22 Dec 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: 2022 Predictions, with "Adam Mill"
For what may be our last episode of the year (since next weekend in Christmas),Steve is quaffing Bunnahabhain for this week’s peaty Islay whisky, mostly in the vain hope that “Bunnahabhain” could be …
01:12:18 |
Sat 18 Dec 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Staring Down Stare Decisis, with Guest Bartender John Yoo
This week’s episode is going up a day early as we had to call Happy Hour for Thursday evening on account of scheduling problems, and Steve and Lucretia welcome to the bar the noted Bourbon drinker an…
01:07:54 |
Fri 10 Dec 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: What the Latest Hoax Teaches about Liberalism
This special end-of-semester episode features Steve and Lucretia reflecting on the latest academic hoax that Steve highlighted earlier in the week on Power Line ( here and here), and which may have c…
01:12:07 |
Sat 04 Dec 2021
A Classic Format Episode about Classic Prog Rock
As Monty Python used to say, “And now for something completely different.” I decided to do a one-off episode about my favorite topic with which to annoy anyone of taste and refinement—a reflection on…
00:21:22 |
Fri 03 Dec 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Thinking About Crime in 2021
Back in the sixties Ronald Reagan liked to quip, “A liberal’s idea of being tough on crime is giving longer suspended sentences.” Today’s liberals don’t even bother with lenient sentences; instead, i…
01:02:14 |
Sat 27 Nov 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Wobbling Wheels Edition
This week’s review of the news begins with the two huge stories that broke Friday—the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse (which is causing grief counselors for leftists to work overtime again), and the Ho…
01:05:49 |
Sat 20 Nov 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The New Misery Index Edition
Steve actually turned up for this week’s show with three different whiskys in hand (Finlaggan, Lagavulin 8, and Bunnahabhain 12—in other words, Islay All the Way!), along with a sampling of the worst…
01:13:50 |
Sat 13 Nov 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Election Schadenfreude Edition
This week’s edition of the Three Whisky VERY Happy Hour revels in schadenfreude over the spectacle of the left freaking out over the election results on Tuesday. As political philosophers we try to g…
01:11:09 |
Sat 06 Nov 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Let's Go Bruno Edition
The title of this week’s episode—”Let’s go Bruno”—requires some explanation, though you’d be right in assuming that “Bruno” fills the same place as “Brandon” in the more familiar slogan of the moment…
01:01:10 |
Sat 30 Oct 2021
The Three (No) Whisky Happy Hour: Gonzo Beach Edition
Unfortunately we weren’t able to fix up the usual online recording session for this week’s Three Whisky Happy Hour, and attempted to assemble in person ahead of the Claremont Institute’s annual dinne…
00:25:10 |
Wed 27 Oct 2021
Why Biden is Whiffing, and Other Baseball Analysis with Henry Olsen
What do baseball and politics have in common? I have no idea, but Henry Olsen does. Actually, the kinds of data measurements we use in baseball can be applied to politics as well, and few do it bette…
00:30:43 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Go Brandon Edition
Lucretia, looking typically unconvinced by one of Steve’s arguments. This week’s episode, recorded with a live audience on Zoom, was off the hook a little more than usual, as Lucretia was in a grumpy…
01:02:54 |
Sat 16 Oct 2021
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