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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
- 559
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Reckoning With Race: America's Failure
Gene Dattel is Steven Hayward’s extraordinary guest on this week’s show. Gene is the author of a book that deserves to be much better known—Reckoning With Race: America’s Failure (Encounter Books). T…
01:16:21 |
Sun 21 Apr 2019
"An Extended Discourse"—An Origin Story with William B. Allen
This very special edition of the Power Line Show features Steve Hayward and two guest hosts—John and Elizabeth Eastman—in an extended conversation with William B. Allen, a teacher and thinker who def…
01:07:18 |
Sun 14 Apr 2019
How "Progressive" Is Progressivism?
How “Progressive” is Progressivism? Is there actually a “side of history,” or is that just the lazy formula of presumptive socialists who think they have a monopoly on the truth and don’t need to arg…
00:54:31 |
Sun 07 Apr 2019
Where Joe Biden Meets Bryce Harper: A Henry Olsen Omnibus
Have you had enough of the Mueller Report? Done smoldering over Smollett? Jazzed at opening day for MLB? Then have we got the show for you! This episode features a conversation with Henry Olsen about…
00:44:38 |
Fri 29 Mar 2019
How Much Do We Hate Woodrow Wilson? Let Us Count the Ways!
Ask any knowledgeable conservative to identify their least-favorite president, and more and more the answer these days will come back: Woodrow Wilson! But this was not always so. For a long time FDR …
00:42:57 |
Sat 23 Mar 2019
The Endless Quest for Social Equality
By popular demand (with some listeners anyway), this episode features another lecture from Steve Hayward’s periodic series for the William F. Buckley Program at Yale, this time on the topic of “The E…
01:06:57 |
Sun 17 Mar 2019
Fred Siegel—An Origin Story, Part 2
In this second part of our long conversation with Fred Siegel, Steve Hayward walks him through the final decay of New York in the 1980s after four decades of unrelenting liberal governance, how Rudy …
00:46:14 |
Sun 10 Mar 2019
The Row Over Rao, and CPAC Wrap-Up
In this special double-episode, Steve Hayward takes the occasion of the last-minute hesitation over the nomination of Neomi Rao for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to talk once again with “Lucretia,”…
00:56:53 |
Mon 04 Mar 2019
Fred Siegel—An Origin Story, Part 1
Steve Hayward goes back into the archives for an audio file from a video interview he conducted with Fred Siegel a few years back in which Fred explains how he came to shed the liberalism of his yout…
00:42:28 |
Fri 22 Feb 2019
C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law
Just in time for the long holiday weekend, an early edition of the Power Line Show, with special guest Justin Buckley Dyer of the University of Missouri. Prof. Dyer is the co-author (with Micah Watso…
00:32:50 |
Fri 15 Feb 2019
After the Flight 93 Election
Michael Anton’s controversial 2016 essay “ The Flight 93 Election” was compared to Tom Paine’s Common Sense as a tract that grabbed the public imagination. Michael is back now with a new book, After …
00:44:19 |
Sun 10 Feb 2019
Lucretia, Unplugged
Readers have been asking when we’ll have back Power Line’s International Woman of Mystery, “Lucretia,” and your wish is our command. “Lucretia” joins us again with some choice rants about the whole R…
00:57:45 |
Sun 03 Feb 2019
Touring Hot Spots: Venezuela and Iran
Venezuela has been slowly falling apart for more than a decade, but when matters reached a seeming crisis point last week, Steve Hayward decided it was high time to catch up with Mark Falcoff, the lo…
00:50:51 |
Tue 29 Jan 2019
Is "New Originalism" an Oxymoron?
Constitutional originalism is the cornerstone of conservative jurisprudence today, but there are several rival versions of originalism, and sometimes you even hear about the “new” originalism, which …
00:24:50 |
Thu 24 Jan 2019
Equality and Its Discontents
This episode offers another of Steve Hayward’s lectures for the William F. Buckley Program at Yale, this time on the subject of equality. Borrowing from the taxonomy of the legendary political scient…
00:49:17 |
Thu 17 Jan 2019
The World According to Chris DeMuth, Pt. 2
This second installment of Steve Hayward’s conversation with Chris DeMuth takes up Chris’s “origin story” with his work on regulatory reform starting in the Reagan Administration, and taking the stor…
00:52:27 |
Wed 09 Jan 2019
The World According to Chris DeMuth, Part 1
Steve Hayward recently sat down to conduct another “origin story” interview with Christopher DeMuth, who is nowadays a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute, where he writes actively about gov…
00:42:34 |
Wed 02 Jan 2019
A New Year's Eve Reunion for "The Beatles"
Getting Power Line’s own “fab four” (John, Paul , George and Ringo, Scott and Steve) together at once is almost as hard as getting The Beatles back together, even though all of the Power Line Fab Fou…
00:57:00 |
Thu 27 Dec 2018
Justice Without Hyphens, or, Is "Post-Modern Conservatism" an Oxymoron?
This week you’re really in for it, as Steve Hayward presents another of his lectures on conservative thought at Yale for the William F. Buckley Program. Steve decides to tackle the “P-word”—Postmoder…
00:46:46 |
Sun 23 Dec 2018
Special Doubleheader: Campaign Finance and Yuval Levin
This special doubleheader edition takes up the question of whether President Trump’s hush money payments to his temporary girlfriends is indeed a campaign finance violation with campaign finance law …
00:51:41 |
Sun 16 Dec 2018
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