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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: Burke—Hero or Goat? (Or GOAT)
We get letters. And one from a regular listener baited us with the proposition that since FDR’s New Deal—decried here on a recent episode—is now nearly 90 years old, the duty of Burkean conservatives…
01:03:00 |
Sat 19 Jun 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: What Would Machiavelli Do?, with Michael Anton
Pour a double for this weeks 3WHH, as Lucretia and Steve host Michael Anton to talk about his extraordinary new article, “ The Art of Spiritual War, Or, How to (Posthumously) Conquer the World from Y…
01:03:47 |
Sat 12 Jun 2021
How Progressives Transformed America, with R.J. Pestritto
As regular listeners know, we never tire of beating up on Progressivism—both the old kind and today’s high-octane version—and we especially like to beat up on Woodrow Wilson. Most of what we know abo…
00:44:58 |
Thu 10 Jun 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Should Conservatives Like FDR??
The modern conservative movement born in the 1950s had two main objects: It was anti-Communist, and anti-New Deal. Lately, however, some conservatives have warmed up to both FDR and the New Deal, whi…
00:53:14 |
Sat 05 Jun 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: School's Out Episode
This week Lucretia and I decide to take a break from our recent seminar format—in other words, no schoolwork this week—and just review some of the week’s news instead. Or perhaps we should say non-ne…
00:52:35 |
Sat 29 May 2021
Fred Barnes on a Life in Journalism
Fred Barnes recently announced his retirement after more than 50 years as a working journalist, having served as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Star, The New Republic, the Weekly St…
01:01:02 |
Wed 26 May 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, on Our (Non)-Color Blind Constitution
All it took was a NY Times op-ed article on the (misunderstood) legacy of Justice John Marshall Harlan’s famous dissent in the 1896 Plessy (“separate but equal”) case to set off a classic “Lucretia” …
01:01:08 |
Sat 22 May 2021
Robert Bryce on Pipelines, Windmills, and Grids, Oh My!
With this episode of the Power Line Show, I’m returning to what I call “Power Line Classic” format, featuring interviews and conversations with interests thinkers, writers, and doers. I took a hiatus…
00:55:50 |
Fri 21 May 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Mission to Moscow
This “mission to Moscow” is not to be confused with the infamous Joseph Davies 1941 book, Mission to Moscow, which Steve calls a “novel” at the opening of this episode, because its pro-Stalinist view…
01:01:56 |
Sat 15 May 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Footnote Fourplay
This week we decided to play “clean up on Supreme Court aisle [footnote] four,” and explain further why we think 1938’s Carolene Products decision was actually the most significant of the New Deal er…
01:00:52 |
Sat 08 May 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Supreme Court Coup Edition
Hoo boy, is this episode off the hook! First, “Lucretia” staged a coup, usurping Steve’s host role, and punishing him for his bad puns, but we finally get to the main event, which is a long conversat…
01:13:52 |
Sat 01 May 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Glen Livet and Glenn Ellmers
This special 250th episode of the Power Line podcast offers a twist on our Three Whisky Happy Hour format, as Lucretia and I put aside our Glen Livet in favor of talking with Glenn Ellmers. Glenn is …
01:10:21 |
Fri 23 Apr 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Riot Season Opens Early
Good grief! “Lucretia” and I take a week off, and everything goes to hell. Minneapolis starts rioting again, and Democrats in Washington start their own riot over court-packing. Meanwhile, the office…
00:59:26 |
Sat 17 Apr 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Democracy at Easter
Winston Churchill wrote that “No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem. Their messages in religion, philosophy, and art have been the main guiding lights of modern faith…
01:00:41 |
Sat 03 Apr 2021
The Power Line Show: VIP Highlights
Last night we had one of our special live Zoom events for Power Line VIP subscribers, but a gremlin seems to have prevented many VIPs from getting timely notice of the link to the event. So we decide…
01:06:47 |
Wed 31 Mar 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Lowering the Boom on the Boomers
So we’re a day late getting this episode ready because we went on location, and recorded live in a real bar, located in an undisclosed location in the Free State of Texas. Here as we do show prep I’m…
01:04:36 |
Mon 29 Mar 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Tubthumping Edition
In honor of “President” Biden’s attempt to imitate Chevy Chase imitating Gerald Ford on the steps of Air Farce One, this week’s episode launches with some appropriate custom bumper music (the headlin…
01:08:41 |
Sat 20 Mar 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Cocktails Against Communism?
So for this episode “Lucretia” and I were going to discuss, and ask for audience input on, whether we should change the name of our format to “Cocktails Against Communism,” but owing to some technica…
00:59:14 |
Sat 13 Mar 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Where Meta-Malts and Metaphysics Meet
This episode rolls out our new motto for the 3WHH format—”The podcast dedicated to meta-malts and metaphysics!” “Lucretia” isn’t so sure, but we’ll roll with that until we change to a sports-talk for…
01:21:18 |
Sun 07 Mar 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Suds for Spuds, Studs, and Duds
This week has something for everybody, as our three segments (we actually stick to format this week!) range from Mr. Potato Head (now Zir Potatx Head apparently) to Winston Churchill, with a detour t…
01:11:00 |
Sat 27 Feb 2021
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