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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 "Primal Screams" of the Sexual Revolution
The old saying is that “sex sells,” and after the sexual revolution of the last several decades who can dispute that? Meanwhile, “identity politics” is the obsession of the current moment. Is there a…
00:43:03 |
Fri 30 Aug 2019
Special Edition: Breaking Down the "1619 Project," Part 1
As promised in our last episode, we return early this week with the first in a series of bonus episodes devoted to a deep dive into the New York Times‘s agitprop “1619 Project” that seeks to place sl…
00:54:31 |
Tue 27 Aug 2019
A Double-Header: The 1619 Project, and Our Rotten Universities
This special double-header-end-of-summer Power Line Show features Steve Hayward and Power Line co-founder John Hinderaker venting about the “1619 Project” along with “Lucretia,” Power Line’s Internat…
01:34:09 |
Sat 24 Aug 2019
The Crisis in Darwinism?
Readers of Thomas Kuhn’s famous book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions will know his central thesis that when anomalies and contradictions arise in a reigning scientific theory it creates a cri…
01:04:10 |
Fri 16 Aug 2019
Burke, Lincoln, and the Politics of Prudence, with Greg Weiner
“Prudence” is not just something Dana Carvey liked to lampoon back when President George H.W. Bush was in office. Rather, it is the highest and most essential quality of those superb human beings we …
00:51:19 |
Fri 09 Aug 2019
From Ukraine to the Border, with Power Line's Female All-Stars
By popular demand from listeners, this special edition of the Power Line Show features both Kelly Jane Torrance of the Washington Examiner and “Lucretia,” Power Line’s International Woman of Mystery.…
00:53:32 |
Tue 30 Jul 2019
Judicial Fortitude, with Peter Wallison
In recent years an arcane term from political science—the “administrative state”—has become a prominent part of everyday discussion. The administrative state refers to the trend, decades in the makin…
00:47:52 |
Fri 26 Jul 2019
A Nationalist Revival?
To paraphrase Karl Marx, a specter is haunting . . . well, just about everybody: the specter of a revival of nationalism. This week Steve Hayward attended the National Conservatism Conference in Wash…
00:56:29 |
Fri 19 Jul 2019
Andrew Roberts Unplugged, on Brexit, Churchill, Trump, and Historiography
One of my teachers in graduate school, the great constitutional historian Leonard Levy, insisted that “a history must serve its readers with explanations that suit the horizons of their curiosity and…
00:42:50 |
Fri 12 Jul 2019
Five Things to Know About the Declaration This July 4, with "Lucretia"
By popular demand from listeners, we’re bringing back “Lucretia,” Power Line’s International Woman of Mystery, on this special edition for the July 4 holiday. Many listeners asked us to offer up mini…
00:55:28 |
Thu 04 Jul 2019
A Full-Tilt Rant-Fest with "Lucretia"
You could be forgiven for thinking this week’s Democratic debates were straight out of an old Monty Python sketch, which prompted Steve Hayward to ring up Power Line’s International Woman of Mystery,…
01:01:07 |
Sat 29 Jun 2019
Fables of the Cuyahoga River Fire, with Jonathan Adler
The Cuyahoga River on fire. But not when you think. This Saturday, June 22, marks the 50th anniversary of one of the iconic moments of the modern environmental history—the infamous Cuyahoga River fir…
01:04:47 |
Fri 21 Jun 2019
"Cocktails From Hell," With Col. Austin Bay
This week’s special guest is Col. Austin Bay, author of a lively new book on foreign affairs and grand strategy, Cocktails From Hell: Five Complex Wars Shaping the 21st Century. Austin Bay has an ext…
01:14:43 |
Sat 15 Jun 2019
The Noor Sentencing Hearing, and, What Kind of Country Are We Anyway!?
This week’s two-part episode features Power Line’s own Scott Johnson reporting on the verdict today in the Mohammed Noor case—the Minneapolis police officer who was convicted last month for murder in…
00:55:34 |
Fri 07 Jun 2019
Everything You Know About the Enron Story Is Wrong: A Conversation with Rob Bradley
This week my guest is the person who deserves to be known as the Robert Caro of energy history—Robert L. Bradley Jr. Rob is the founder of the Institute for Energy Research, one of the best go-to sou…
00:56:35 |
Fri 31 May 2019
"Populism" Marches on Overseas: Henry Olsen on Elections in the EU and Australia
I’ve decided that “populism” is when the wrong person or party wins a democratic election. Certainly the way the media and liberal elites have reacted to the Liberal Party’s upset win in Australia be…
00:34:56 |
Fri 24 May 2019
The Antidote to Howard Zinn? "Land of Hope" with Wilfred McClay
Lo and behold, I opened up this morning’s Wall Street Journal to see a weekend interview with this week’s guest, historian Wilfred M. McClay of the University of Oklahoma, about his brand new book La…
01:05:42 |
Sat 18 May 2019
"Cracks in the Ivory Tower": A Conversation with Phil Magness
This week Steve Hayward talks with economic historian Phillip Magness, co-author (along with Jason Brennan) of a brilliant new book, Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education. Thi…
01:00:47 |
Sat 11 May 2019
"No Ad Hominem Arguments": A Conversation with Charles Lipson
This week Steve Hayward talks with Charles Lipson, the Peter Ritzma Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Chicago, about how to talk and argue about matters amidst the increasi…
00:56:14 |
Sat 04 May 2019
The Noor Trial Verdict
Justine Damond Scott Johnson has been covering the trial of Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor, who was charged in the fatal 2017 shooting of Justine Damond. This afternoon the jury returned a g…
00:16:26 |
Tue 30 Apr 2019
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