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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
Earth Day at 50, with Terry Anderson
Terry Anderson It’s Earth Day today—and not just any old Earth Day, but the 50th anniversary. It’s passing rather more quietly than in many previous years because the coronavirus crisis is eclipsing …
00:37:51 |
Wed 22 Apr 2020
Eight Reasons to End the Lockdowns ASAP
Last week Dr. Jonathan Geach, an anesthesiologist treating some COVID-19 patients in Tennessee, wrote an article on Medium that created a sensation: “ Eight Reasons to End the Lockdowns as Soon as Po…
00:38:08 |
Wed 15 Apr 2020
From the White House Press Room to the Hospital Emergency Room
This week’s show features two guests who just happen to be married, which certainly makes recording convenient! Our first guest is Debra J. Saunders, the White House correspondent for the Las Vegas R…
00:50:32 |
Sun 12 Apr 2020
A Question of Power, with Robert Bryce
This special mid-week edition offers an alternative to the all-virus/all-the-time coverage currently smothering all other topics right now, this time featuring Robert Bryce talking about his brand ne…
00:55:00 |
Tue 07 Apr 2020
Around the World in 80 Months? Jeremy Carl's Epic
My guest this week is Jeremy Carl, currently a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and formerly a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, where he directed the Shultz-Stephenson …
00:46:40 |
Sat 04 Apr 2020
FDR—Conservative Hero?, and Other Reader Questions
Conrad Black argued this week that Franklin Roosevelt deserves to be regarded as a conservative champion, or at least that conservatives should steal him away from Democrats. FDR himself argued that …
01:03:46 |
Wed 01 Apr 2020
The World on Lockdown: A View from Eastern Europe
Cliff Bates Our parochial news media seem only interested in reporting on the state of things here in the U.S. and in their favorite European vacation spots like France and Italy, but of course the C…
00:42:40 |
Sat 28 Mar 2020
The Green Nude Eel and Other Heterodoxies, with Sarah Hunt
Sarah Hunt There’s gonzo, and then there’s Sarah Hunt. Hunt is the humorist/policy activist who came up with the moniker “Green Nude Eel” in response to the preposterous extravagances of the utopian …
00:51:21 |
Wed 25 Mar 2020
A Look at COVID-19 Data, with Brian Sullivan
Brian Sullivan This bonus episode features the insights and observations of Brian Sullivan, a serial entrepreneur in the domain of health care and medical device innovation. He is the founder and CEO…
00:23:13 |
Sat 21 Mar 2020
A Beat Down on China, with Michael Auslin
It may be too strong to say that China and the United States are engaged in “germ warfare,” but the Chinese propaganda effort, aided by our own irrepressible fifth column in the media that seems to w…
00:44:00 |
Wed 18 Mar 2020
Breaking Down the Oil Price War and the Coronavirus with Mark Mills
Mark Mills I’m posting this week’s episode a couple days ahead of our usual weekend schedule to keep up with the fast-moving news cycle of the most important story of the week—no, not necessarily the…
00:49:16 |
Thu 12 Mar 2020
Wot Happened? Who Knows the Thing?
How in the heck did Joe Biden’s mummified campaign come back to life? Or is it just back to zombie status—still dead, but up and moving and menacing the living? That’s the main subject of this week’s…
00:59:17 |
Sat 07 Mar 2020
The Agony of a Liberal, With Damon Linker
What do you do if you are a center-left thinker confronting the train wreck of the Democratic nomination contest just now, with the strong possibility that socialist Bernie Sanders will be the nomine…
00:39:17 |
Sat 29 Feb 2020
Berniemania: The Coronavirus of the Democratic Party
This week’s episode, featuring listener favorite Lucretia, Power Line’s International Woman of Mystery, was taped while the Nevada caucuses were in process, but now we know that Bernie Sanders has cr…
01:02:59 |
Sun 23 Feb 2020
Fight! Fight! In the White House No Less!
This week we violate the legendary first rule of Fight Club with Tevi Troy, author of the wonderfully gossipy new book Fight House: Rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump. Troy, a veteran …
00:42:28 |
Sat 15 Feb 2020
The Lost History of Western Civilization, with Stanley Kurtz
Stanley Kurtz It is not news that the humanities and social sciences have been degraded by the sustained assault from the left for several decades now, but Stanley Kurtz of the Ethics and Public Poli…
00:51:45 |
Sun 09 Feb 2020
America's Revolutionary Mind, With C. Bradley Thompson
Brad Thompson Prof. C. Bradley Thompson of Clemson University has written a superb new book, the first of two volumes, about the American Founding, America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of th…
00:55:40 |
Sat 01 Feb 2020
A Primer on Impeachment
This special edition of the Power Line Show offers a panel discussion on impeachment held this week at Berkeley Law School, which Steve moderated. Its purpose was not to rehash or thrash out the spec…
01:13:42 |
Wed 22 Jan 2020
Martin Luther King Jr., Yesterday and Today
Peter Myers The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is always a good occasion to ponder his legacy, which shifts with the lengthening of history and the dramatic changes in the racial politics of our mome…
01:02:23 |
Mon 20 Jan 2020
Stephen Knott on "The Lost Soul of the American Presidency"
This week’s guest is Stephen F. Knott of the Naval War College, discussing his terrific new book, The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal,…
00:47:55 |
Mon 13 Jan 2020
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