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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
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Wot Corruption?
Lucretia hosts this week's episode, and as Hamilton predicted about how executive power would promote sobriety, the awesome responsibility of the host chair led Lucretia to praise Kevin McCarthy for …
01:28:42 |
Sat 13 May 2023
The Three Whiskey Happy Hour: A Triple Shot of News
With all three bartenders back together and John Yoo in the host chair, the gang wonders why it is that Robert F. Kennedy Jr is so far making the most sense in the 2024 presidential race, how it is t…
01:10:34 |
Sat 06 May 2023
When Race Trumps Merit, with Heather Mac Donald
Heather Mac Donald may be the most fearless journalist in America. She is relentless in her reporting, bracing in her truth-telling, and ferocious in arguing her case. Her new book, When Race Trumps …
00:43:05 |
Wed 03 May 2023
Celebrating Judge Carlos Bea
Who is the only federal judge to have played basketball in the Olympics for Cuba? Who is the only federal judge known for driving around town in a 1960s-era convertable Rolls Royce? Who is the only f…
01:02:27 |
Sat 29 Apr 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Almost Live, from Commenter-Con II
This week we took the 3WHH on the road for a special ad-free episode, as Lucretia and Steve recorded before a live audience at Commenter-Con II in Phoenix. Commenter-Con II is the inspiration of 'Amm…
01:04:08 |
Tue 25 Apr 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Devil and Miss Lucretia?
In what may be the most wide-ranging episode of the 3WHH yet, the troika ranges from the implications of the Fox News settlement with Dominion for the defective NY Times v. Sullivan doctrine, to an e…
01:18:11 |
Sat 22 Apr 2023
Religious Liberty and the American Founding, with Phil Munoz
This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Groff vs. Dejoy, involving a Post Office mail carrier named Gerald Groff, who, for religious reasons, wished not to work on Sundays. Pr…
00:47:01 |
Thu 20 Apr 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: No Leaking Here
Lucretia hosts the bar this week, as Steve and John extol the virtues of Japanese whisky while trolling the left for its latest futile attempt to take down Justice Clarence Thomas. Lucretia celebrate…
01:16:09 |
Sat 15 Apr 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Peak Crazy Achieved?
You know how people who think they can top something crazy like to say, "Hold my beer"? Well, this week Budweiser decided to try to top Alvin Bragg's bogus indictment of Donald Trump by rebranding th…
01:15:29 |
Sat 08 Apr 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Israel's Judicial Coup?
Lot going on this week, including Steve successfully completing his mandatory online "Abusive Conduct Training," otherwise known as Lucretia's How-To Guide to Blunt Speaking. Did you know abusive con…
01:18:12 |
Sat 01 Apr 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Alvin (Bragg) and the Chipmunks
We’re a day late getting to the whisky bar this week on account of complicated travel schedules. Lucretia sits in the host chair as Steve was still feeling light-headed from too much high-altitude sk…
01:13:25 |
Sun 26 Mar 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Silicon Death Valley Days
John and Steve are off galavanting in Florida, up to all kinds of mischief and boozy dinners, so this episode was recorded sans whisky but after a lot of fine wines. So this episode really could have…
01:10:36 |
Sat 18 Mar 2023
The Return of Willmoore Kendall
Willmoore Kendall Willmoore Kendall was one of the great political scientists of the postwar era, and has been back on our minds lately for a number of reasons. As a heterodox champion of Joe McCarth…
00:48:53 |
Wed 15 Mar 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Uniparty On
The unifying theme to this week’s episode (recorded before a live Zoom audience) is that Republicans had a pretty good week, except for Sen. Mitch McConnell, who preceded falling down a stairway (Luc…
01:14:40 |
Sat 11 Mar 2023
The Nature of the Administrative State, with John Marini, Part 2
John Marini was one of the first conservative thinkers in 2016 to recognize that Donald Trump posed an existential threat to the administrative state, in a series of articles that are included in a r…
00:55:07 |
Wed 08 Mar 2023
Power Line University: Judicial Review and the Bill of Rights
Our ninth and final seminar of our series on The Federalist concludes our discussion of judicial review, with a detour to the famous case of Marbury v. Madison in 1803 that supposedly settled the mat…
01:13:51 |
Mon 06 Mar 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Tackling All the Major Questions
You mean I can get these in triplicate now!?! This week the Three Whisky Happy Hour tackles not only the “major questions” doctrine at the Supreme Court, but the major question about McDonald’s new (…
01:14:44 |
Sat 04 Mar 2023
The Origin of the Administrative State, with John Marini, Part 1
The “administrative state” is an obscure and ungainly phrase, but in recent years the term has burst out into general use, though it is often conflated with another term currently popular—the “deep s…
00:45:35 |
Wed 01 Mar 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: A Grand Week Indeed
The spectacle of Georgia’s grand jury forepermix is enough to induce a grand mal seizure, but we move on quickly from that spectacle to the specter of the Supreme Court pondering the Heisenberg Uncer…
01:16:04 |
Sat 25 Feb 2023
Power Line University, Session 8: The Federalist & the Judiciary
Settle down class, time for our next lesson. This week we take up how The Federalist explains Article III, the judiciary, and especially the nowadays familiar power of judicial review, which is nowhe…
01:00:25 |
Sun 19 Feb 2023
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