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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: What's In the News Today, Oh Boy!
This week’s episode is sans-guests and sans-metaphysics, as Lucretia and Steve kick around the news of the week, which is a mix of the usual ominous portents from Washington, along with some evidence…
01:07:03 |
Sat 09 Oct 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Alice Cooper ("School's Out") Vindicated, with Lance Izumi
We’re a day late with this week’s episode because Lucretia and Steve had the opportunity to catch up live with the Pacific Research Institute’s education expert extraordinaire Lance Izumi in San Fran…
00:53:38 |
Sun 03 Oct 2021
The Crisis in Civilian-Military Relations, with Mackubin Owens
With all the controversy over General Mark Milley’s direct contacts with senior Chinese military leaders, his apparently extensive contacts with journalists, and the confusion or contradictions over …
00:22:11 |
Thu 30 Sep 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The End of History, with Richard Samuelson
We’re a day late because of travel problems, and Steve is working on a backup computer because he left his laptop behind at his office on Friday, but this allowed us finally to book historian Richard…
01:01:11 |
Sun 26 Sep 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Do "Experts" Know Anything?
Steve’s happy place! Steve returns as host this week, and after some of the ritual lover’s quarrel over whisky (including a celebration of Steve’s happy place—see nearby pic), Steve and Lucretia get …
01:11:10 |
Sat 18 Sep 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: 9/11 Reflections, CA Recall Predictions, and More
Lucretia assumes hosting duties for this week’s potpourri of a show because Steve is recovering from major surgery, which he relates at the show opening today. (It includes a theological dimension!) …
01:00:01 |
Sat 11 Sep 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: ‘The Soul of Politics,' with Glenn Ellmers
Next Tuesday, Encounter Books will publish Glenn Ellmers’ magisterial intellectual biography The Soul of Politics: Harry Jaffa and the Fight for America, and Glenn joins us this week to walk through …
01:13:25 |
Sat 04 Sep 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: On Equality, Consent, and the Difficulty of Self-Government
This week’s episode is a Biden-free zone, so if you’re looking to avoid the Biden-Afghan collapse story, this is the show for you. Instead we decided to circle back return to an argument Steve was lo…
01:05:00 |
Sat 28 Aug 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, with Guest Bartender Michael Anton
We’re not done thrashing the Afghanistan disgrace, so we coaxed Michael Anton (the Power Line podcast’s most frequent guest it turns out) to join us for a few quaffs. We use three of his recent artic…
01:13:43 |
Sat 21 Aug 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, with Afghan Vet Spencer Case
We weren’t able to do an episode for our regular Saturday time slot last weekend because Steve was on the road, so we’re doing this mid-week show with a special return guest, philosopher Spencer Case…
00:52:55 |
Thu 19 Aug 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Can We Please Have a Second Political Party?
Lucretia takes over hosting duties for this episode (which seems only truth-in-advertising, since most listeners think she is charge every week), as we contemplate the question: wouldn’t it be nice i…
01:05:06 |
Sat 07 Aug 2021
Ted Gaines for Governor!
As everyone knows, California is having another fun-filled recall election next month, and some recent polls show that Governor Gavin Gruesom is in trouble and may well lose. The way California’s rec…
00:43:21 |
Thu 05 Aug 2021
Kevin Roche on coronamania
When it comes to COVID, Power Line’s go-to source for making sense of the subject is Kevin Roche, who brings his years of experience in the health care field to his very useful website, healthy-skept…
00:40:38 |
Tue 03 Aug 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Fight Club Sequel With a Twist of FDR
We’re back! After a hiatus for a week while Steve was overseas, we return to the bar with some new whiskies and a sequel to our last episode that talked about the hysterical attacks on our friends at…
01:01:53 |
Sat 31 Jul 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, Almost Live from Budapest
Steve figured a nine time zone distance might provide a margin of safety from Lucretia’s rear-end kicking over Steve’s article “ What the Hell Happened to Bill Kristol?“, which Lucretia finds sorely …
00:48:33 |
Sat 17 Jul 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Putting CRT Under a CRT
Once upon a time, “CRT” stood for “cathode ray tube,” sometimes known as “television,” but also oscilloscopes, computer screens, some x-rays, and certain other technical devices designed for testing …
01:06:34 |
Sat 10 Jul 2021
After Nationalism, with Samuel Goldman
Who knew that that hottest new thing in the early 21st century would be an old thing—the nation state? Nationalism acquired a foul odor in the 20th century, but ever since Brexit and Trump upset the …
00:47:19 |
Fri 09 Jul 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, July 4 Roundup Edition
After a week off for travel and for Steve to recover from the pummeling he took at the hands of “Lucretia” in our last episode two weeks ago, the 3WHH is back with some fresh malts and fresh looks at…
01:01:54 |
Sat 03 Jul 2021
Downeast, with Gigi Georges
If you only go by the major media or your local college sociology department, you’d think rural America is a hopeless domain of drug and alcohol addiction, downward mobility, and dysfunction. Far fro…
00:51:59 |
Thu 01 Jul 2021
The Crisis of the Two Constitutions, with Charles Kesler
This week’s Power Line Classic format show features Prof. Charles R. Kesler, editor of the Claremont Review of Books, talking about his brand new book, Crisis of the Two Constitutions: The Rise, Decl…
01:04:47 |
Thu 24 Jun 2021
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