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
My Address to Incoming Grad Students
This classic format episode of the Power Line podcast features Steve Hayward all by himself, and breaks some news: Steve is returning to Pepperdine University this academic year as the Edward Gaylord…
00:33:12 |
Tue 29 Aug 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Mugged by Reality
Wondering what to make of the first GOP debate, Trump's arrest and mug shot, and the apparently deteriorating battlefield situation in Ukraine? Then you've come to the right place. John Yoo hosts thi…
01:20:15 |
Sat 26 Aug 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Ricochet Overtime Edition
As loyal listeners know, yesterday Steve, John, and Lucretia took over the flagship Ricochet podcast in the absence of both Peter Robinson (still somewhere in the Witness Protection Program) and Rob …
01:04:05 |
Sat 19 Aug 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Screwball Edition
The late week news was so screwball that Steve surrendered to Screwball Peanut Butter Whiskey to cope while Lucretia the Lightweight settled for Irish coffee while John, out of place as usual, passed…
01:11:43 |
Sat 12 Aug 2023
The *Two* Whisky Happy Hour: The View from Europe, with Edoardo Raffiotta
This isn’t our normal 3WHH; John isn’t here, just Steve and Lucretia. So maybe a 2WHH. The occasion for today’s extra episode—since we moved up our usual weekly offering on account of the latest week…
00:54:57 |
Sun 06 Aug 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Special Mid-Week Episode on the Trump Indictment
Our normal weekend rendezvous at the whisky bar was convened early this week to get out our fresh reactions to the Trump indictment for his role in the events of January 6, and our general reaction a…
01:08:30 |
Wed 02 Aug 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: A PIG Goes to Market & The "L-Word"
After clearing the decks of the latest headlines from the week involving Biden trials and Trump tribulations, we get down to business discussing John's new book The Politically-Incorrect Guide to the…
01:11:53 |
Sat 29 Jul 2023
Special Episode: William B. Allen on VP Harris's Demagoguery
I knew when I saw news of Vice President Kamala Harris claiming that Florida's new African-American history standards for public schools taught that "enslaved people benefitted from slavery," I knew …
00:16:39 |
Wed 26 Jul 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: "Eternal Infernal Optimism"
Are the anticipated coming Trump indictments serious? Defrauding the federal government? Obstructing Congress? Violating the Ku Klux Klan Act? This is indeed John McEnroe territory—"You cannot be ser…
01:11:35 |
Sat 22 Jul 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour, on 'The Narrow Passage' by Glenn Ellmers
John Yoo is away overseas this week, so Steve and Lucretia are joined by Glenn Ellmers, author of the brand new book The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibilty of Political Philosophy. D…
01:19:24 |
Sat 15 Jul 2023
The (Uncensorable) Three Whisky Happy Hour: Still Loitering at the Courthouse
You've heard of the Avengers. And the Incredibles. We at the 3WHH consider ourselves The Uncensorables. (Only because Justice League is taken.) In any case, just when you thought it was safe to pass …
01:19:03 |
Sat 08 Jul 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: That's a Wrap!
It's over. The fat lady has sung. The Supreme Court ended its current term with a big bang, delivering a long-overdue smackdown of affirmative action that with any luck history will say was a turning…
00:48:23 |
Sat 01 Jul 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Standing Down?
The submersible that is the Biden presidency looks to be under as much increasing pressure as the Trump reboot tour, and maybe both will implode? And when is the Supreme Court going to end the suspen…
01:12:11 |
Sat 24 Jun 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Pardon Me?!?!
By the end of the week when our three bartenders assembled, the Trump indictment had been pretty well munched and masticated, so there wasn't much left to say about the matter for the moment. But Joh…
01:16:37 |
Sat 17 Jun 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Bringing the Smoke and the Fire
Who needs Steve's peaty, smoky whisky this week when Canada is supplying a surplus for half the nation? (But it ain't Canadian Club they're serving.) After clearing the smoke from our eyes—and our wh…
01:13:33 |
Sat 10 Jun 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
John Yoo is away traveling this weekend, so the 3WHH reverts to its old form, with Lucretia pummeling Steve like a chiropractor working on a stiff neck for his conventional thinking about the debt ce…
01:13:25 |
Sat 03 Jun 2023
Marx, Neoliberalism, and the 1619 Project, with Phil Magness
Phil Magness of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) is one of the most productive—and provocative—working scholars today (with emphasis on working, as his output is prodigious).
This c…
This c…
00:45:10 |
Thu 01 Jun 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Supreme Court Touchdowns
It's late in the 4th quarter for this year's Supreme Court season, and the Justices are starting to score with some long bombs. Our 3WHH bartenders celebrated with entire flights of whisky (our kind …
01:26:51 |
Sat 27 May 2023
The Woke War in Hollywood, With Christian Toto
The hiatus in Hollywood brought on by the current writers strike seemed a good occasion to check in with Christian Toto, proprietor of the indispensable HollywoodInToto website, as well as a podcast,…
00:40:09 |
Thu 25 May 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Lowdown on RFK Jr with KJT
With Steve Hayward back in the host chair this week, the 3WHH actually breaks some real news with special guest Kelly Janes Torrance, the op-ed editor of the indispensible New York Post. This week Ro…
01:10:00 |
Sat 20 May 2023
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