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
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Kamalamamadrama?
Lucretia hosts this week, which means 'Swift Boating' has a whole new meaning, as Taylor Swift's whirled tour on behalf of whirled peas has run into Islamic terrorism, but shhhh, you can't say that i…
01:22:50 |
Sat 17 Aug 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Walzing or Breaking?
John Yoo hosts this week's 500th episode of the Power Line family of podcasts, which turns out to have a common theme: dance steps. Kamalamadingdong (someone's—I won't say who but you can guess—new n…
01:06:53 |
Sat 10 Aug 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Human Nature and American Identity
What do Trump's controversial appearance before black journalists, the Olympics controversy over the gender of boxers, and the protean identity of Kamala Harris have in common? Simple—they are all an…
00:59:57 |
Sat 03 Aug 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Tin Foil or Popcorn?
Like an old 80s sitcom, this episode was taped before a live audience of about 90 regular listeners who carried on a vigorous commentary and questions in the Zoom chat, and we had a special guest at …
01:16:10 |
Sat 27 Jul 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Was That a Week or a Year?
Well that certainly was a week. Seems more like a year now since the news that Judge Cannon declared special DoJ prosecutor Jack Smith's appointment was unconstitutional, but it was only Monday. But …
01:01:47 |
Sat 20 Jul 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Rifts, Rifts Everywhere
The prolonged agony of Joe Biden is causing rifts in the political universe similar to what a black hole does—a vortex sucking everything into a void beyond which lie quantum unknowns. This episode p…
01:06:04 |
Sat 13 Jul 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, Special July 4 Edition: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
For your listening pleasure while you fire up the grill and align your fireworks today or over the weekend, the gang assembled for a special July 4 edition of the 3WHH, with extensive discussion—and …
01:02:12 |
Thu 04 Jul 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: PM Tony Abbott Surveys the World
Last month John Yoo and Steve Hayward, larping around central Europe in search of the rule of law, happened to make the acquaintance for former (and perhaps future?) Australian Prime Minister Tony Ab…
00:27:39 |
Tue 02 Jul 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Triumph at the Court & on the Debate Stage
Has there been a worse week for the left in the last 25 years? First "Squadster" Jamal Bowman loses his House seat, then the Supreme Court delivers blow-after-blow to the foundations of the administr…
01:11:21 |
Sat 29 Jun 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Simcha Rothman on Israel's Judicial Crisis
If you follow news out of Israel these days—and who doesn't?—you may have caught the story early this week that Israel's Supreme Court issued a ruling that the government may not exempt the haredim (…
00:39:50 |
Wed 26 Jun 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Nitrous Oxide from the Court
We hadn't even planned to do a regular episode this week because John Yoo is over in Korea, Steve has been away at a three-day conference, and Lucretia is breaking in a new kitten. But we received ur…
00:57:55 |
Sat 22 Jun 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Above, Behind, and Below the Law
No sooner do we have a "reunion" episode last week than travel schedules blow it all up again. With John Yoo away on another junket (supposedly teaching a summer law seminar somewhere, but really in …
01:04:59 |
Sat 15 Jun 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Reunion Episode
The Three Whisky Happy Hour bartenders are finally back in the same time zone, and Lucretia fills in Steve and John about what happened while they were away partying in Europe. We mostly skip over do…
00:57:33 |
Sat 08 Jun 2024
Classic Format Edition: Scoping the European Election Scene with John O'Sullivan
BUDAPEST, June 5: This Sunday the member states of the European Union will be going to the polls to elect their members of the European Parliament. I don't exactly know just what the European Parliam…
00:37:44 |
Wed 05 Jun 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: "Our President Banged a Porn Star, and We Had World Peace."
Lucretia hosts this episode from her bunker in an undisclosed bunker in the desert southwest while Steve and John are still galavanting over in Europe. And as hinted in a Power Line post, she is ther…
00:58:54 |
Sat 01 Jun 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Eugene Konotorovich on the Lessons of Oct. 7
This week's special episode originates in Budapest, where John Yoo and I were presenting at a two-day conference on the decay of the rule of law in Europe. You think things are bad with the U.S. judi…
00:45:54 |
Wed 29 May 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Bad Lawyers and Worse Decisions?
Listeners want to know from John: did Justice Clarence Thomas let us down with his ruling in this week's 7 - 2 decision upholding the unique funding structure of Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Finance P…
01:09:35 |
Sat 18 May 2024
Bonus Classic Episode: 'The Unprotected Class' with Jeremy Carl
This classic format episode features Steve in a one-on-one conversation with with Jeremy Carl, author of a dynamite (almost literally) new book entitled The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism I…
00:50:29 |
Fri 17 May 2024
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Judges Without Judgment?
John Yoo hosts this week's episode from exile in Austin, Texas, where he humors Steve and Lucretia's the extra-legal views on the Trump trials and tribulations in a Manhattan courtroom, and speculate…
01:12:47 |
Sat 11 May 2024
Bonus Episode, Three Whisky After Hours: What To Make of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act
There was a lot of listener and reader interest in our too brief comments on the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act in our last episode, and we realized this issue deserved keeping the whisky bar open after…
00:45:36 |
Mon 06 May 2024
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