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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: Originalism, Old and New
This week we shake up the format a bit, and skip over our gratuitous whisky reviews and commentary on the top news stories of the week, and head straight in to the classroom for our long-postponed se…
00:58:40 |
Sat 20 Feb 2021
The The Whisky Happy Hour: The Elites vs. Consent of the Governed
Well, we had planned to continue our tutorial on the natural law basis for genuine constitutional originalism, but we two professors reverted to form and didn’t prepare! And we’ve got standards, so w…
00:54:51 |
Sat 13 Feb 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Two Thomases and Natural Law
Another week, another dismal article in The New Republic (a former magazine) to beat up. We promise not to make a habit of this, lest TNR get an anti-stalking injunction, but this week’s TNR howler, …
01:01:26 |
Sat 06 Feb 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Examining the Cycles of American History
What episode offers you “spice that ramps up the palate, carried forward by the full body, hearty proof, and mouth-coating texture”? This edition of the Three Whisky Happy Hour, if the latest reviews…
00:57:41 |
Sat 30 Jan 2021
Back to Wuhan, With Spencer Case
Almost exactly a year ago I had Spencer Case on the show from Wuhan, China, where he had a front row seat to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Spencer is now back in Wuhan, finishing up a post-…
00:38:27 |
Thu 28 Jan 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Dominatrix Lucretia Takes Over
By popular demand from listeners, “Lucretia” takes over hosting duties this week and gives Steve another thrashing about election fraud issues. But along the way we review the extremely ominous first…
01:12:41 |
Sat 23 Jan 2021
The Three Whiskey Happy Hour: The Metaphysics of the Election
Settle in with your favorite single malt for this extra-long episode that offers a deep dive into the election results with Henry Olsen, the Trump-sympathetic analyst who concludes that Democrat vote…
01:23:48 |
Sat 16 Jan 2021
Special Edition: Should Trump Be Impeached?
I was caught up short yesterday when I spotted, on the generally very pro-Trump American Greatness website, William B. Allen’s article entitled “Let Us Impeach Him.” It pays to read past the headline…
00:26:07 |
Sun 10 Jan 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Open Mic Edition
Lucretia and I decided to pour triple shots and host an open bar episode of our regular whisky-drenched dialogue with two special guests, Power Line co-founder John Hinderaker, and Charles Lipson, fr…
01:03:00 |
Sat 09 Jan 2021
Some Needed Comic Relief from Stan Evans
For anyone looking for some welcome comic relief from the dreadful scene of this week, here is the episode for you! M. Stanton Evans As a few select people know, I am currently writing a biography of…
00:30:21 |
Thu 07 Jan 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Liberal Learning Curve is Flat
We begin the New Year by examining three breaking news stories (to go with three shots of whisky, of course), all of which add up to the conclusion that the liberal learning curve is flat. First, Por…
01:08:24 |
Sun 03 Jan 2021
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: 2020 in Review
This week’s whisky In another wide ranging episode (our last for the year), “Lucretia” and I review the best and worst Christmas movies, the best and worst Christmas music, the rank order of the best…
01:14:13 |
Sat 26 Dec 2020
Is "Australian Wine Snob" an Oxymoron?
This is without doubt The. Most. Gozno. Episode. Ever. My sampler for the episode. This week “Lucretia” (“That’s DoctorLucretia to you, kiddo!”) and I put down our whisky and take up Australian red w…
01:12:10 |
Sat 19 Dec 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Our Pirate Ruling Class
A suitable whisky for a foggy Saturday evening. So there we were, armed with a fresh bottle of 10-year-old Ardbeg Islay whisky (not quite as peaty as Laphroaig or Talisker), and all set to plunge bac…
01:04:50 |
Sun 13 Dec 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: College Shop Talk
“Lucretia” and I had fully intended to work through our long-promised (or is it that threatened?) and now thrice-postponed seminar on the philosophical roots of leftist snobbishness and condescension…
01:02:05 |
Sun 06 Dec 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Counting Courts
At one point during the livecast recording of this week’s episode on Zoom, a commenter said the score was “Lucretia 6, Hayward 0,” so naturally I thought I was only behind by two field goals, and thu…
01:04:50 |
Sat 28 Nov 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: "Snobbish Snobology" Postponed
After getting a review of new and unpronounceable whiskies out of the way (such as the one posted here) along with the miseries of the week just past that compel several drams of whisky, “Lucretia” a…
00:56:50 |
Sat 21 Nov 2020
Can We Transition? Charles Lipson Says Yes, We Can!
Charles Lipson Can American democracy walk and chew bubble gum at the same time? Charles Lipson thinks so, arguing in the Wall Street Journal today that normal transition activities can and should ta…
00:44:01 |
Mon 16 Nov 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Milk The Trump Dividend!
This week Steve and “Lucretia” survey the dismal scene of uphill recount prospects (and why game theory says Trump should fight on even past January 20), the impending COVID tyranny (“Lockdown II: Th…
00:49:07 |
Sat 14 Nov 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Election Metaphysics
Hoo boy! I’m not sure three whiskies are enough this week. Fortunately I procured a relatively cheap Islay single malt—Finlaggan—to get me through the travails of Election Overtime. The election is s…
00:43:35 |
Sat 07 Nov 2020
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