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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: Uhlmann to the Rescue
If Trump wins the electoral college again on Tuesday while losing the popular vote (perhaps by a bigger margin than he did in 2016), the left will lose its mind. Well that’s a given, but they’ll real…
01:02:08 |
Sat 31 Oct 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, with Guest Drinker Henry Olsen
Better late than never, “Lucretia” and I team up to review what’s going on in the news along with drinking to the confirmation of Justice Barrett, but are most interested in thinking a bit about what…
00:47:55 |
Tue 27 Oct 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Weiss-Cracking
Steve settles in with some Japanese whisky while “Lucretia” abandons her “whisky cougar” ways with a bona fide Glenlivet 18 so we can celebrate Amy Coney Barrett’s start turn driving Democrats to emb…
01:06:43 |
Sun 18 Oct 2020
Carpe Diem Indeed! Mark Perry Shows How to Fight Back on Campus
If you aren’t following Mark Perry’s Carpe Diem blog every day you’re missing out on one of the best sources for common sense analysis of current economic and social controversies. Mark, an economist…
00:50:38 |
Sat 17 Oct 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: A Victory Lap, a Beatdown, and Still More Liberal Education!
The basics. This week’s recap starts off with a challenge to find the most unpronounceable scotch whisky you’ve never heard of (like Poit Dhubh, which is unavailable in the U.S.), plus a review of th…
00:57:51 |
Sat 10 Oct 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Liberal Education and Responsibility (With a Side of Biden)
Lots of things to pour whisky shots for this week. Before returning to our short course on Leo Strauss’s perspectives on liberal education, “Lucretia” and Steve reflect on Joe Biden’s long career as …
01:00:01 |
Sun 04 Oct 2020
The Recovery of Family Life, with Scott Yenor
We’re delighted to bring Scott Yenor to the show this week to discuss his important new book, The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies, which is being officially released…
00:51:18 |
Mon 28 Sep 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Liberal Education and the Court
Freshly resupplied with a shipment of Laphraoig, Talisker, and “Murdered Out” dark roast from Black Rifle Coffee, Steve and “Lucretia” drink to the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Suprem…
00:53:44 |
Sat 26 Sep 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: "The Frigate 93 Election?"
I know we promised listeners that last week’s episode would be the beginning of a three-part series on liberal education rightly understood, but the passing of Justice Ginsburg has thrown us off our …
00:44:58 |
Sun 20 Sep 2020
Trump's Democrats
Is there room for another book on the rural voters who delivered the surprising outcome of the 2016 election? Yes, there is, when the book is Trump’s Democrats, by Stephanie Muravchik and Jon A. Shie…
01:02:48 |
Sat 19 Sep 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: What Is Liberal Education? (Part 1)
Well now we’ve done it! This week Lucretia and I decided to take a break from downing whisky shots over the latest crazy news headlines and drag listeners back into the classroom for a new mini-serie…
00:52:19 |
Sat 12 Sep 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, Percentages Edition
This week’s three whisky happy hour centers around three percentage numbers: 99, 93, and 100. In looking at the latest craziness from higher education, Lucretia and I conclude scientifically that 99 …
00:50:37 |
Mon 07 Sep 2020
"The Stakes," with Michael Anton
Today is the 4th anniversary of the appearance of one of the most memorable political essays in American history, “ The Flight 93 Election,” written by the pseudonymous author “Decius.” It began with…
00:55:07 |
Sat 05 Sep 2020
The Left Goes Postal
As I’m sure you’ve heard, Trump the Dictator is messing with the U.S. Post Office in an attempt to steal the election. He’s removing blue boxes from corners! He’s taking mail processing machines out …
00:26:15 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, Winners and Losers Edition
After a one week hiatus for jury duty, the Three Whisky Happy Hour with Steve and Lucretia is back, but with a role-reversal: Lucretia bartends this week! Partly this is so Lucretia can school Steve …
00:50:04 |
Sat 29 Aug 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, with Guest Bartender Charles Lipson
This week’s Power Line Three Whisky Happy Hour finds Charles Lipson bellying up to the bar for a flight of whiskys that begins with a tale of his mis-spent youth discovering the “bootleggers and Bapt…
01:10:24 |
Mon 17 Aug 2020
"Nils, We Need to Talk!" Are We Headed for Electoral Disaster in November?
Are we possibly headed to a complete electoral and political meltdown in November, complete with riots in the streets and threats of secession by some states? Last week something called the Transitio…
01:21:15 |
Sun 09 Aug 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, Flight 6
This especially fast-paced edition of the Three Whisky Happy Hour with “Lucretia,” Power Line’s International Woman of Mystery, gets off track right at the start, when an incidental mention of the fa…
00:41:00 |
Sat 08 Aug 2020
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, Flight 5
America’s newspaper of record—which is the Babylon Bee of course—is out with the headline, “Biden Campaign Says He Is So Close to a VP Pick He Can Smell Her.” The Bee really needs to stop scooping th…
00:45:16 |
Sun 02 Aug 2020
Avoiding "Suicide by University," with Arthur Milikh
I’m starting to come to the view that having K-12 education and colleges and universities shrink because of COVID-19 might be one of the bits of good news arising out of the pandemic. Our universitie…
00:42:22 |
Sat 01 Aug 2020
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