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
- 559
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
"Historians in Cars": Andrew Roberts on Historical Writing and Churchill
The distinguished British historian and biographer Andrew Roberts has just released Churchill: Walking With Destiny, which the New York Times (along with several other prominent publications) has cal…
01:07:03 |
Wed 05 Dec 2018
Talking Economic Liberty with Chip Mellor
This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Timbs v. Indiana, concerning the widespread practice of “civil asset forfeiture,” in which law enforcement will seize your property upo…
00:45:44 |
Fri 30 Nov 2018
Talking Civil Rights With Gail Heriot
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is out with a new report this week on Police Use of Force, and you know what that means—another sprightly dissent from commission member Gail Heriot. You can read …
00:49:33 |
Wed 21 Nov 2018
Conservative Fight Club!
Now I know what you’re thinking, and you’d be wrong: the first rule of Conservative Fight Club is that you never shut up about Conservative Fight Club! In this recent lecture for the William F. Buckl…
00:52:06 |
Fri 16 Nov 2018
On the Firing Line with Ammo Grrrll
Scott Johnson joins host Steve Hayward this week for a podcast book party celebrating the launch of a collection of columns from “Ammo Grrrll,” Power Line’s Friday morning humor writer, Susan Vass. A…
00:49:07 |
Mon 12 Nov 2018
Henry Olsen's Midterm Outlook
We’re up early with this week’s edition of the Power Line Show, because Steve Hayward (his voice finally back to about 90 percent) cornered Henry Olsen to get Henry’s Jedi-like outlook on the mid-ter…
00:34:01 |
Thu 01 Nov 2018
Edmund Burke: The First Conservative
While Steve Hayward continues to nurse his voice back to full strength, this episode of the Power Line Show offers another of Steve’s Yale lectures on conservative philosophy, this time on the topic …
00:50:31 |
Sun 28 Oct 2018
Conservatism and Its Enemies
A slight departure for the Power Line Show this week: Steve Hayward has lost his voice (bringing cheer to his critics and enemies), and couldn’t do the author interview planned for this week, so John…
00:49:43 |
Sat 20 Oct 2018
"We can win this thing!" Revisiting the Cold War with Herbert Meyer
Herbert Meyer, a senior CIA official during the Reagan years and occasional contributor to Ricochet, suffered a serious bicycle accident recently and remains hospitalized. Herb was one of the first p…
00:46:50 |
Sat 13 Oct 2018
The Deep End of the (Lord) Liverpool
The Power Line Show takes a break from the All-Kavanaugh-All-the-Time format of recent weeks, and sits down with historian William Anthony Hay, author of a brand new biography of Robert Banks Jenkins…
00:49:59 |
Sat 06 Oct 2018
#NotMeToo!
With the Kavanaugh-Ford sexual assault controversy reaching a climax in the next few days, Steve Hayward decided to check in with “Lucretia,” Power Line’s “International Woman of Mystery,” and Julie …
00:50:17 |
Fri 21 Sep 2018
"Breaking Away" with Reagan, Trump, and the Midterms
This episode features the address Steve Hayward delivered this week to the Friends of Ronald Reagan at the California Club in Los Angeles, reflecting back on how Reagan weathered two tough mid-term e…
00:37:45 |
Sat 15 Sep 2018
She's Ba-aack! "Lucretia" on Cyber-Security
Between the incessant controversy about Russia hacking our elections, and the recent recommendation of several U.S. science academies that we return to paper ballots, we thought it was high time to d…
00:46:00 |
Mon 10 Sep 2018
The Power Line Show Ep 86: November's Coming!
With two more weeks of primary election results to pick over, Steve Hayward checks in with Henry Olsen to see how things look. Florida increasingly appears to be the most interesting battleground sta…
00:24:11 |
Sun 02 Sep 2018
Vietnam Revisited, With Mackubin T. Owens
After receiving a query from a young person about why the U.S. didn’t aim for victory in Vietnam, Steve Hayward decided to put the question to Mackubin T. Owens, a Marine Corps veteran of Vietnam and…
00:41:49 |
Sun 26 Aug 2018
Blue Wave or Red Tide?
Will the November election produce a (Democratic) blue wave or a (Republican) red tide? Pre-election opinion polls this year seem more volatile than ever, and beyond the horse-race aspect, there are …
00:33:51 |
Mon 20 Aug 2018
The University We Need?
Steve Hayward, just back from a regional meeting of the National Association of Scholars, sits down with Warren Treadgold, author of brand new book, The University We Need, which offers a bold idea: …
00:26:47 |
Wed 15 Aug 2018
"Born American, But in the Wrong Place"—Remembering Peter Schramm
In this very special episode, Steve Hayward uses some unaired material from a long interview with the late Peter Schramm of the Ashbrook Center. Peter passed away in August 2015, and left a legacy of…
00:54:49 |
Mon 06 Aug 2018
Iran Primed for Revolution?
If a thuggish regime fell in the forest and the New York Times didn’t report it, did it make a sound? This week Steve Hayward talks with Kelly Jane Torrance of the Weekly Standard about what is going…
00:35:00 |
Mon 30 Jul 2018
The 14th Amendment at 150, Part 2
Steve Hayward and his pseudonymous mystery guest “Lucretia” return for the second half of their conversation about the meaning and interpretation of the 14th Amendment. Building on last week’s analys…
01:08:10 |
Sun 22 Jul 2018
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