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: Live Holiday Edition
This week's special, ad-free edition of the 3WHH was recorded in live webinar format with about 80 of our most loyal listeners tuning in and heckling us MST3K style (IYKYK) in the chat room, but for …
01:22:40 |
Sat 23 Dec 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: In Context
The cleaning crew is still scrubbing the blood off the floor from last week's cage match about Ukraine and January 6, and already Ali and Frazier (that is, Lucretia and John) want to go for a sequel—…
01:13:03 |
Sat 16 Dec 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Cage Match Edition
We finally get around to our promised but delayed cage match about Ukraine and unanswered questions about January 6, and alas, all of Steve's attempts to cheer up Lucretia with the week's great news—…
01:05:27 |
Sat 09 Dec 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: John Yoo One-on-One with...Charles Barkley??
So we had promised last week that this episode would feature a cage match between Lucretia and John about realism versus idealism as applied to the Ukraine War (especially since John baited Lucretia …
01:14:08 |
Sat 02 Dec 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Deciding Between Bad and Worse
While most other podcasts are taking the Thanksgiving holiday off, your three bartenders behind the Three Whisky Happy Hour remain on the job, because no one wants leftover podcasts for the long week…
01:13:39 |
Sat 25 Nov 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, on Students for (In)Justice in Palestine
Hoo-boy—pour yourself three-fingers of your favorite high-proof single malt for this episode of the Three Whisky Happy Hour, as Steve, John, and Lucretia throw down hard on the limits of free speech …
01:05:39 |
Sat 18 Nov 2023
FDR and Civil Liberties, with David Beito
Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal are back in fashion these days, featuring some truly strange bedfellows. Liberal intellectuals told President Biden that he could become the next FDR if he simply …
00:46:58 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Return of the King
With John Yoo, who accuses Lucretia and Steve of being closet monarchists, back from his jungle adventures in South America (albeit without any archeological relics to satify his Indiana Jones fantas…
01:13:30 |
Sat 11 Nov 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, with Special Guest Amy Wax
With John Yoo still away somewhere in the jungles of South America, Steve and Lucretia are delighted to be joined by a very special guest, Prof. Amy Wax of Penn Law School. Followers of the campus sc…
01:06:35 |
Sat 04 Nov 2023
America's Proxy Wars: A Conversation with Col. Austin Bay
Another bonus classic format edition, this time featuring Steve in extended conversation with Col. Austin Bay, one of the proprietors of the indispensable Strategy Page, columnist for Creators Syndic…
01:06:37 |
Thu 02 Nov 2023
A Conversation with Hadley Arkes about Natural Law
Way back in 1960, Leo Strauss wrote in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences that "Natural law, which was for many centuries the basis of the predominant Western political thought, is rejected in o…
00:32:24 |
Mon 30 Oct 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Crowd-Pleaser Edition
With John Yoo away this week on a junket to South America, Steve and Lucretia reverted to old times and scheduled a live taping where we fielded questions and comments in a webinar format.
We talked a…
We talked a…
01:12:57 |
Sat 28 Oct 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Campus Conundrums Over Hamas and Frankie Five-Angels Returns?
The only thing more predictable than a sunrise in the east is a Hamas claim that Israel bombed a Gaza hospital and that the Western media would report it as dictated because the story was just too go…
01:17:17 |
Sat 21 Oct 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Hamas on Campus
Never mind Hamas in Gaza: what do we do with Hamas ideology on American college campuses? On top of the pusillanmous responses of college presidents we can clearly see the emerging theme of moral equ…
00:49:10 |
Sat 14 Oct 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Dog Days of the Biden Presidency
Lucretia, freshly back in the U.S. from her adventures with Steve in Budapest, is in the host chair for this week's episode, and she's not in a good mood. And it's not jet lag. Looking out at the con…
01:02:21 |
Sat 07 Oct 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Phila-Pest Edition
Settle in with your best chilled Hungarian dessert wine and Philly cheese steak for this cosmopolitan issue, which finds John Yoo—host for this week's episode—tired out from looting in his home town …
01:24:09 |
Sat 30 Sep 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: No Qualified Whisky Immunity
This circuitious episode, hosted by Steve in Budapest with John Yoo in Dallas and Lucretia in her undisclosed desert location, starts off with the entirely predictable news that David Brooks drinks h…
00:57:59 |
Sat 23 Sep 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Cognitive Infrastructure Crisis
Lucretia hosts this week, as the fearsome threesome give a brief summary of a recent law school seminar on natural law and the Constitution we presented last week at Berkeley Law before a group of so…
01:10:40 |
Sat 16 Sep 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Return of the Branch Covidians
We're a day late and a person short this week, as we're missing John Yoo because of schedule conflicts. Over morning coffee instead of evening single malt, this shortened, ad-free epiode finds Lucret…
00:47:17 |
Sun 10 Sep 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Saving Our Gerontocracy
Never mind saving “our democracy"—who's going to save our gerontocracy! With Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden in a contest for Greatest Brain Freeze Moment, while Dianne Feinstein and John Fetterman loo…
01:10:46 |
Sat 02 Sep 2023
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