Power Line
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
"You Run the Show or the Show Runs You"—The Strategic Perspective of Harold Rood
Harold Rood The fuss over President Trump’s decision to kill Iranian General Qasem Soleimani is causing the usual hair-on-fire reaction among the media and foreign policy elites. Everyone is playing …
00:20:16 |
Mon 06 Jan 2020
Power Line's Year in Review and 2020 Preview
Our final episode of 2019 brings together the entire Power Line gang—John, Paul, Scott, and Steve, along with “Ammo Grrll” Susan Vass—for a look at the current scene and a look ahead to next year. Co…
00:47:26 |
Sun 29 Dec 2019
Come Again? The "1619 Project" Divides the Left?!
There are several new wrinkles in the saga of the New York Times‘s egregious and ideological “1619 Project,” which can only mean one thing: time for another episode with “Lucretia,” Power Line’s Inte…
01:15:24 |
Mon 23 Dec 2019
The Most Gonzo Episode Ever
Nils Gilman Is it possible for conservatives and left-of-center thinkers to have a civil and substantive conversation in the Era of Trump? Steve Hayward decided to find out, and the result is this co…
01:14:46 |
Tue 17 Dec 2019
OK Boomer: Let's Cross the Streams! Is Reagan Relevant to Millennials!?!?
This episode is either an excursion into intergenerational conflict, or the pilot for a 21st century version of The Odd Couple, where Oscar and Felix are a Millennial and an aging Baby Boomer. This w…
00:53:59 |
Sun 08 Dec 2019
Breaking Down the 1619 Project, Part 5
A few days late because of the holiday week, “Lucretia,” Power Line’s international woman of mystery, joins Steve Hayward once again to resume their series critiquing the “1619 Project,” this time ta…
00:56:23 |
Wed 04 Dec 2019
Looking Back at the Great Society, with Amity Shlaes
More than 50 years after Lyndon Johnson launched the “Great Society” and its “war on poverty” that its architects said would eliminate all poverty in America in ten years, we still have poverty and a…
01:03:52 |
Fri 22 Nov 2019
Henry Olsen with the Inside Baseball on Politics and . . . Baseball
This week Steve Hayward hosts Henry Olsen going through the inside baseball of the unfolding Democratic presidential primary season, but also the inside baseball about . . . baseball! Did you know th…
00:38:36 |
Sun 17 Nov 2019
They're Both Wrong, with John Tamny
John Tamny of Freedom Works and RealClearMarkets joins Steve Hayward this week to discuss his provocative new book, They’re Both Wrong: A Policy Guide for America’s Frustrated Independent Thinkers, j…
00:52:18 |
Fri 08 Nov 2019
Tackling the Opioid Crisis and the Vapid Vaping Debate, with Sally Satel
Dr. Sally Satel The opioid crisis has been prominent in the news for the last several years, while more recently the controversy over vaping has erupted to new heights, with the Trump Administration …
00:46:58 |
Sat 02 Nov 2019
Phase Three for the Conservative Movement?
Whither American conservatism is the question on everyone’s mind these days. Recently I gave a short talk about this topic with the central thought that the American conservative movement was now ent…
00:27:02 |
Sat 26 Oct 2019
Impeach This! With John Yoo and "Lucretia"
What do you get when you combine “Lucretia,” Power Line’s ever popular international woman of mystery, with John Yoo, whose only mystery is his fondness for McDonalds? You get an episode that talks a…
00:44:31 |
Fri 18 Oct 2019
Bonus Episode: Bronze Age Decius?
Michael Anton at Machiavelli’s tomb. This special bonus double-episode tests the proposition that a good podcast format is a conversation among friends at a bar—because that’s exactly what the first …
01:38:29 |
Sun 13 Oct 2019
Age of Iron: On National Conservatism, with Colin Dueck
Nationalism is the subject of the moment, and both the term and the idea come with more baggage than Paris Hilton and Khloe Kardashian after an afternoon of shopping on Rodeo Drive. I’ve had a few th…
00:44:49 |
Fri 11 Oct 2019
A Few Minutes with Hadley Arkes
Last week I caught up with Hadley Arkes, Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions emeritus at Amherst College and the founder and director of the James Wilson Institute on N…
00:53:47 |
Fri 04 Oct 2019
Breaking Down the 1619 Project, Pt. 4, with Lucas Morel
Lucas Morel This week “Lucretia,” Power Line’s international woman of mystery, gets promoted to co-host as she and Steve Hayward welcome Lucas Morel to our special series on the 1619 Project. Morel i…
01:04:23 |
Sun 29 Sep 2019
Reagan in the 1960s, and the Lessons for Today
Last week I was honored once again to be the after dinner speaker for the fall meeting of the Friends of Ronald Reagan, a local civic group in Los Angeles that meets at the California Club to celebra…
00:36:47 |
Fri 20 Sep 2019
"Guilt Is The Greatest Form of Self-Indulgence"—Breaking Down the 1619 Project, Part 3
“Lucretia,” Power Line’s international woman of mystery, is back with Steve again this week with the third installment in our special series confronting the pernicious New York Times “1619 Project,” …
01:00:16 |
Fri 13 Sep 2019
Heather Mac Donald's Greatest Hits
This special double-length episode features a wide-ranging conversation with best-selling author and iconoclast Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute, with special focus on her new book, The …
01:53:19 |
Fri 06 Sep 2019
Special Edition: Breaking Down the "1619 Project," Part 2
We have a new theory about the mainstream media: they have decided to work without editors any more. How else to explain how the Washington Post slandered J.D. Vance with the claim that he decried th…
00:48:07 |
Tue 03 Sep 2019
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