Podcasts
June 9, 2026 — Steven Hayward
This week’s spotlight on new books about the Declaration of Independence features Hillsdale College historian Bradley Birzer, whose book is The Declaration of Independence: A Radical Experiment in Liberty, just out last month from Stone House Press. Prof. Birzer’s book has a somewhat shorter time frame than some of the other books we have discussed in this series, which often take the run-up to the Declaration back to the 1760s
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June 3, 2026 — Steven Hayward
I’m finally back from two weeks overseas mixing an academic conference with some vacationing, and just in time. Here I am hanging on every word from the great John Malcolm at Università degli Studi di Enna Kore in Sicily last week. We’re now only a month away from the July 4 semiquincentennial of the founding of our country, and there’s still time to acquire and read through some of the
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May 19, 2026 — Steven Hayward
Normally I’m not much of a Nicholas Cage fan, and I have mostly outgrown action-adventure movies, but I do very much like the short scene, excerpted in the cold open in the podcast file below, from “National Treasure,” set in the National Archives, where Cage gazes reverently at the Declaration of Independence and recites the “right of revolution” passage from the middle of the famous second paragraph, after which he
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May 12, 2026 — Steven Hayward
This special classic format podcast series leading up to July 4 will start to pick up steam in the next couple weeks. I resume here with John G. West of the Discovery Institute, who sat down with me recently in his Seattle office to discuss his new book, Endowed by Our Creator: The Bible, Science, and the Battle for America’s Soul. Margaret Thatcher once remarked that “Europe was created by
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March 29, 2026 — Steven Hayward
Yep, it’s happening. I’m getting the band back together, and reviving the Power Line Classic Podcast format, featuring me in one-on-one conversation with individual guests of note, though from time to time we may get the whole Power Line Gang together to appear on some special legacy episodes. This has been a while in the making, partly by popular demand from listeners who liked the conversations I used to do
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January 29, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Actually, we all do. Not a day goes by without legal issues playing a prominent role in current events. But it is not easy for people who are not lawyers–the sensible majority!–to get clear explanations of, or sound commentary on, legal issues. That is why Ilan Wurman, law professor at the University of Minnesota, and Center of the American Experiment have launched a new podcast called rationally BASED. Lawyers will
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October 9, 2025 — John Hinderaker
This week, I was on the American Experiment podcast. We talked about the shutdown, the Jay Jones scandal, and what I really think about liberal violence. Probably expressed more strongly than you have seen it here. My appearance starts at 17:03. If you have a few minutes to spare, I would encourage you to listen to the whole podcast. The first segment is Grace Keating and Kathryn Johnson, kicking around
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June 11, 2025 — Scott Johnson
New York Post columnist Miranda Devine has undertaken a podcast series called Pod Force One. For her first guest she starts at the top with President Trump. She covers the podcast in her column this morning here. The video was just posted to YouTube within the past two hours and the interview begins with the news of the day and proceeds to explore personal background. I thought readers would find
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March 8, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Another two-fer podcast Saturday, with the 3WHH back to full strength (both in personnel and in whisky), with John Yoo in the host chair skillfully leading our unruly gang in a round-robin three-subject format that we’re alternating this year. I lead off wondering if Gavin Newsom, and Senate Democrats, are at last having their “Sister Souljah” moment about the transgender millstone around their neck, though I point out that Democrats
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March 5, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Why let our frenemies at the Commentary podcast (frenemies since they dissed the sacred McRib recently, which resulted in our declaration of total war) have all the fun with their emergency podcasts: after today’s errant Supreme Court rulings, it was necessary for the 3WHH bartenders —well two of us at least—to jump to our mics to express our outrage, but also to celebrate briefly Trump’s tour de force speech before
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February 28, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Another two-fer podcast weekend, up a little early because the world is moving too fast. John Yoo is away this week, so the 3WHH brought in a 180-proof guest in John’s place—the great Richard Epstein, who speaks at an average rate of 125 words a minute, with occasional gusts of 200 words per minute. We discuss two of his many extraordinary books, the first being his 1992 title Forbidden Grounds:
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February 22, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Another two-fer podcast Saturday. On the 3WHH, our long-running intramural argument over the Ukraine War has become just like the Ukraine War itself—lots of casualties on both sides, but very little movement from week to week. But is Trump actually on the cusp of a breakout? There’s one thing Trump did this week that is surely causing Putin to wipe the smile off his face, and no one seems to
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February 19, 2025 — Steven Hayward
This classic format edition of the Power Line podcast features me in conversation with Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, about his timely new book, Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites. While America’s judiciary has moved to the right in recent years along with the revival of constitutional originalism, our law schools, always left of center, have been moving steadily further to
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February 15, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Another two-fer podcast weekend, with new episodes of the 3WHH and Ricochet. With Lucretia hosting both the 3WHH episode and the bar this week (with three different whiskies just for herself), we manage to keep John Yoo from excessive gloating about the Eagles win in the Super Bowl by distracting him with his favorite subject—executive power, about which he seldom thinks there can be excessive celebration in the end zone.
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February 8, 2025 — Steven Hayward
We’re back to the usual podcast weekend double play, with both a 3WHH and Ricochet episode to pass along. On the 3WHH, we reflect that we’re only 19 days into Trump’s term, but it seems like 19 months have passed already since January 20. When Alexander Hamilton wrote of “energy in the executive,” he had no idea that a real estate tycoon would become the greatest example of this understanding
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February 5, 2025 — Steven Hayward
When the history of civil rights in our time is finally written—though no history is ever “finally” written of course—honest writers will mark the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling in the Harvard and University of North Carolina affirmative action admissions cases as a key turning point in restoring the principle of equal rights as understood by the founders. Further, the better histories will note the key role of one person: Edward
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February 1, 2025 — Steven Hayward
We’re late with this week’s 3WHH as I had to travel late in the week to Villanova University to keynote the law school’s annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics and Culture. I had no idea, by the way, that previous keynote speakers for this conference included Antonin Scalia and Martha Nussbaum. I clearly brought down the average, and am very sorry Villanova had to scrape the barrel this
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