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: Are You Fully AANAPISI Yet?
John showing off his gourmet dinner. Getting together at the bar was a bit tricky this week since we’re all scattered to the wind and John Yoo thought it essential that he swing through a McDonald’s …
01:14:46 |
Sat 18 Feb 2023
The Fab Four for the 400th
Can it really be possible that this is the 400th episode of this ramshackle podcast? With such a milestone, it seemed a good occasion to get the Fantastic Four who work the site every day together at…
01:02:24 |
Fri 17 Feb 2023
Power Line University, Lesson 7: The Federalist on the Presidency
Session 7 of our PLU short course on The Federalist met on Saturday this week, and took up Hamilton’s defense of the presidency from the anti-Federalist critics starting with Federalist 70, the paper…
01:08:40 |
Mon 13 Feb 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Super Week Before the Super Bowl?
Lucretia hosts this week’s episode, though this does not let Steve and John off the hook for their Stockholm Syndrome symptoms in any way. The run-up to America’s most holy secular observance—the Sup…
01:13:57 |
Sat 11 Feb 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Memphis Blues Again
John Yoo assumes the host chair for this week’s episode, and despite declaring this week to be a Ukraine-Free Zone, Lucretia still manages to get in a sequel to some of last week’s discussion threads…
01:06:14 |
Sat 04 Feb 2023
Power Line University, Lesson 6: The Progressive Attack on the Federalist
This week’s Power Line University seminar on The Federalist completes our discussion of the separation of powers in Federalists 47 – 51, and then takes an extended detour into the Progressive Era att…
01:04:14 |
Thu 02 Feb 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Tanking Ukraine
Many of The Federalist Papers bear the title, “The Same Subject Continued,” and with a lot of news about the Ukrainian situation coming out this week, we decided to continue last week’s vigorous argu…
01:10:43 |
Sat 28 Jan 2023
Power Line University, Lesson 5: Federalist 47 – 51 and the Separation of Powers
We continue our leisurely stroll through The Federalist with an extended look at Federalist numbers 47 through 51, which explain the key concept of the separation of powers—a phrase that is nowhere f…
01:07:26 |
Fri 27 Jan 2023
Jean Yarbrough & Dan Lowenstein on the Liberal Arts
This classic format episode features a conversation with Dan Lowenstein, professor emeritus at UCLA Law School and, more importantly, the impresario of UCLA’s Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Ins…
01:00:25 |
Wed 25 Jan 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Freaks, Geeks, Leaks, and Ukrainamania
This week’s raucous episode, recorded well after conventional happy hour ends, ranged from Biden’s dementia to the failed Dobbs leak investigation, to Kevin McCarthy’s (relatively) good week, the pos…
01:13:55 |
Sat 21 Jan 2023
Power Line University, Lesson 4: Federalists 33 – 45
This week’s class resumes our leisurely stroll through The Federalist starting with Federalists #33 and #37, and the “partly federal, partly national” character of the Union under the proposed Consti…
01:14:41 |
Fri 20 Jan 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour Rummages Joe's Garage and Celebrates Paul Johnson
John Yoo is away this week, so Hillsdale historian Richard Samuelson joins the Three Whisky Happy Hour for an extended discussion of the passing of Paul Johnson, and especially why he deserves to be …
01:18:42 |
Sat 14 Jan 2023
Power Line University, Lesson 3: Federalist 11-23
Yesterday’s third class session of Power Line University went through Federalist 11 through 23, drawing out in particular some of Hamilton’s reflections on taxation that remain relevant to some of ou…
01:08:15 |
Thu 12 Jan 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Last Pope, the Next Speaker, and Hobbes
Only the 3WHH bartenders could possibly draw the connecting thread between the subjects of the passing of Pope Benedict XVI, the drama over the next Speaker of the House, and Thomas Hobbes. But with …
01:08:34 |
Fri 06 Jan 2023
Power Line University, Lesson 2: Federalist 10
Yesterday we held our second class session of Power Line University, this time taking up the famous Federalist #10, drawing out key points of James Madison’s views on how an “extended republic”—long …
01:11:34 |
Thu 05 Jan 2023
Scott Atlas on Our COVID Mistakes
The response to COVID is arguably the single greatest public policy mistake in American history, which in turn became a global catastrophe since so many other nations followed the United States with …
00:49:55 |
Wed 04 Jan 2023
The Three Whisky Happy Hour Celebrates New Years
John Yoo serves as lead bartender for this gala new year’s eve edition of the Three Whisky Happy Hour, though he was nearly deposed for arriving late and then taunting us with pics of his Korean new …
01:12:26 |
Sat 31 Dec 2022
Michael Anton Picks Up the Gauntlet
“Human rights do not exist,” claims an anonymous dissident conservative writer, but when he (at least we’re going to identify the author as a “he”—heh) added some animadversions about our pal Michael…
00:59:02 |
Fri 30 Dec 2022
Power Line University, Lesson One, The Federalist
Lucretia and I held the first “classroom” for PLU (Power Line University) yesterday, with 110 people ultimately tuning in live for our first formal session on The Federalist Papers. We had a couple o…
01:06:59 |
Thu 29 Dec 2022
A Sci-Fi-Palooza: Star Trek vs. Woke Trek
Who knew that John Yoo is a total science fiction geek?! I’m going to have to go back and scour his law review article footnotes to see if I can detect esoteric references to Sci-Fi classics, which, …
01:03:13 |
Wed 28 Dec 2022
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