Podcasts
May 28, 2024 — Steven Hayward
This special mid-week episode of the Three Whisky Happy Hour originates in Budapest, where John Yoo and I were presenting at a two-day conference on the decay of the rule of law in Europe. You think things are bad with the U.S. judiciary sometimes? It’s much worse over here. (I’ll post some video highlights when they are available.) In any case, because of the time difference and other challenges, Lucretia
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May 24, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Unfortunately there won’t be a regular installment of the Three Whisky Happy Hour podcast this week. I am over in Rome at the present moment, while John Yoo is actually airborne today en route to meet up with me for a conference on the Rule of Law in Europe which prevented finding a time when the three of us could link up even virtually. For the moment the conference has
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May 18, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Listeners want to know from John: did Justice Clarence Thomas let us down with his ruling in this week’s 7 – 2 decision upholding the unique independent funding structure of Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB), which she designed intentionally to avoid congressional control as much as possible? John says no, and makes a persuasive three-part case for why Thomas’s opinion is thoroughgoing originalism, and good history to boot.
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May 17, 2024 — Steven Hayward
This classic-format, ad-free episode features me in a one-on-one conversation with with Jeremy Carl, author of a dynamite (almost literally) new book entitled The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart. Jeremy commits heresy in this book, offerng statistics that you aren’t supposed to mention, and truths that, in an earlier age, might have got you burned at the stake. In publishing this book Jeremy joins the ranks with
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May 11, 2024 — Steven Hayward
John Yoo hosts this week’s episode from exile in Austin, Texas, where he humors me and Lucretia with our extra-legal views on the Trump trials and tribulations in a Manhattan courtroom, and speculate how Trump’s “Letter from the Rikers Island Jail” would read (though it will be more likely in the form of Tweets or TruthSocial posts). Have we discovered a trial judge who seems to have no judgment at
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May 5, 2024 — Steven Hayward
There was a lot of listener and reader interest in our too brief comments on the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act in our last episode, and we realized this issue deserved keeping the whisky bar open after the usual 2 am closing time to extend our treatment of the issue, yielding this short special episode. To recap: Lucretia thinks it is a stupid idea (hence, “Don’t murder a man who is committing
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May 4, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Lucretia hosts this week’s episode, reminding us once again that Republicans are living up to their reputation as “the stupid party” with the proposed “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act” that seems to have overlooked this quaint old thing called the First Amendment. Steve gamely tries to defend the political strategy behind it, but Lucretia is having none of it (putting her in rare alignment with the New York Times), wondering why anyone
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May 1, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Today is May Day, but also the Victims of Communism Memorial Day, and as such today is the prefect day for this classic-hybrid format edition, featuring me in conversation with Elizabeth Spalding, chair of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. (Elizabeth is also Senior Fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy and Visiting Fellow at the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College.) The Foundation has
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April 26, 2024 — Steven Hayward
We’re going up a day earlier than usual with this week’s (ad-free!) episode, partly because our constantly irregular travel schedules complicated things again, but more importantly to be timely, as John, Lucretia, and I have LOTS of thoughts on the Supreme Court argument yesterday about whether ex-presidents should enjoy broad immunity for any or all acts they took while in office. Lucretia and I think the president does, while John
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April 20, 2024 — Steven Hayward
This week’s ad-free episode is probably better thought of as a Two Whisky Happy Hour, because John Yoo is away on a lecture- and Philly-cheesesteak-procurement tour back east, and Lucretia is also out of action this weekend, too, though she appears in this episode by proxy, so to speak. So two whiskies it is. Last weekend, Lucretia and I offered a keynote duo-presentation for Ammo Grrrll’s annual CommenterCon conference in
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April 14, 2024 — Steven Hayward
I hosted this crisp episode despite having a creaky voice from a springtime bug (and Lucretia is partly hobbled, too) and we cover a lot of ground, starting with a brief recap of the latest (unanimous!) property rights victory at the Supreme Court, but then moving quickly on to initial reactions to the outbreak of World War III yesterday. What to make of Iran’s attack on Israel? Many things are
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April 6, 2024 — Steven Hayward
John Yoo takes command of host duties this week, as I was on the road at an academic conference at City University of New York, where a knowledgeable faculty member remarked that he was surprised I didn’t need an armed guard. The conference was largely devoted to the intellectual history of the liberal tradition, and was designed perfectly to induce a scornful snort from Lucretia who disdains all such flim-flummery.
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March 29, 2024 — Steven Hayward
We recorded a day early this week on account of Holy Weekend hard upon us, so we’re posting it up a day early. And this week’s episode has it all, starting with the lamentable fact that when you hear “porn is everywhere these days,” it included even the Power Line website this week (it was tempting to claim, “We’re just trying to keep up with the public schools”), and then
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March 23, 2024 — Steven Hayward
This week’s episode could be mistaken for the Three Martini Happy Hour, because this week’s installment comes with a tangy twist. John Yoo is away this week, so we brought in a ringer to take his place: Prof. Hadley Arkes! Thus this episode become a Positivism-Free Zone, in which we review the deepest ground of the natural law unencumbered by John’s usual alarums, excursions, and errors. The episode comes in
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March 15, 2024 — Steven Hayward
We had to record a day earlier than normal this week because of travel schedules and other complications, so we’re posting up Friday night instead of Saturday morning as usual. Move over “Republicans pounce” as the favorite media deflection. We now know that when an old man yells at clouds—or members of Congress—the media fall in line and declare it “fiery.” Well the 3WHH is authentically fiery! Four habanero spicy!
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March 9, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Lucretia hosts this week’s episode, which we recorded in the morning over coffee instead of whisky because travel schedules prevented the normal and proper Friday evening happy hour, and guess what? We’re even worse without whisky! Among the news and issues treated this week: Why Biden isn’t FDR (he’s not even Harry Truman); why this was the worst SOTU (Lucretia offers a different acronym) speech ever; whether there are signs
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March 2, 2024 — Steven Hayward
There is no Three Whisky Happy Hour podcast this week, because we practiced a bit of “settler colonialism” by occupying the flagship Ricochet podcast yesterday and expelling the previous residents. Well not literally. Rob Long and Peter Robinson were both away, so the producers asked the 3WHH crew to fill in for the whole hour. And hoo-boy, with James Lileks in charge of the discussion, the sparks flew on immigration,
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