Podcasts
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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February 24, 2024 — Steven Hayward
This episode has everything: a how-to guerilla guide to improving your McDonald’s hamburger experience; a spirited discussion of the Alabama Supreme Court decision that defines frozen embryos as persons (I think the media is willfully misreporting the decision—John is not so sure); those crazy new presidential rankings from political scientists—and even some soft-core porn! Say what? Well, it turns out that that Judge Arthur Engoron, who oversaw Trump’s alleged fraud
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February 16, 2024 — Steven Hayward
We’re up a day early with this week’s episode because of schedule complications, but mostly to get a drop on the streaming services with our new (un)reality TV show, “The Real Prosecutors of Atlanta,” starring Big Fani Willis. OMG, is this not the best television since last week’s Super Bowl? I turned up, however, with a gin martini instead of peaty whisky, which drew a rebuke from You Know Who,
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February 10, 2024 — Steven Hayward
The Twenty-Fifth Hour is the 1950 novel by the Romanian writer C. Virgil Gheorghiu that weaves a tangled, early post-modern tale of central Europe and the Balkans in World War II. It is justly forgotten today, but the title is back in a manner of speaking because it highlights the great irony of the Left’s Ahab-like pursuit of the Great Orange Whale (to mix literary references). Anyone else recall back
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February 3, 2024 — Steven Hayward
John Yoo is where?? Mexico!?!? So after all that talk the last couple weeks saying the situation at the southern border did not constitute an “invasion,” now he’s in Mexico on some undisclosed clandestine mission. Which makes no sense: they don’t even have McRibb there. Taking John’s place this week is Inez Stepman of the Independent Women’s Forum, frequent contributor to the New York Post, First Things, The Federalist, and
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January 26, 2024 — Steven Hayward
This special ad-free edition, posted a day ahead of the usual schedule because of the urgency of events at the southern border, finds the 3WHH hosts engaging in their own civil war over the question of whether states have any remedy when the federal government abdicates is responsibility to protect the border. Lucretia and I were in rare accord—well maybe not quite complete accord*—against John’s positivist position of federal supremacy
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January 20, 2024 — Steven Hayward
This week’s episode covers more ground more quickly than a Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes passing attack. Which the Philadephia Eagles won’t get to experience because they flopped in the first round of the playoffs last weekend, falsifying one of John Yoo’s predictions for 2024 that the Eagles would make the Super Bowl. We’re hoping his brief to the Supreme Court in the case of Trump’s place on the Colorado
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January 13, 2024 — Steven Hayward
On the eve of the Iowa caucuses Monday, we got to wondering just who or what lives up to the description of “Iowa Stubborn” in Meredith Wilson’s “Music Man”: And we’re so by God stubborn We can stand touching noses For a week at a time And never see eye to eye! Is it Trump, DeSantis, Haley—or the legions of lawyers waging endless lawfare against Trump? It’s a trick question.
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January 6, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Ronald Reagan used to joke that for Republicans, every day is the 4th of July, while for Democrats every day is April 15. Today we need to update that contrast by noting that the favorite new holiday for Democrats is January 6—”Insurrection Day.” We’ll get to Joe Biden in due course, but the real insurrection this week took place at Harvard, where, as John Yoo predicted last week (we have
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December 30, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Who needs a rockin new year’s party when you have the Three Whisky Happy Hour in peak form, dishing out on the top stories of 2023, and, in the spirit of the late financial analyst Byron Wein, offering a range of potential low-probability surprises (rather than firm predictions) for 2024. What’s the difference between a prediction and a surprise? Well think about it this way: who would have predicted, at
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December 27, 2023 — Steven Hayward
This special holiday week classic format bonus episode features a conversation between me and Will Inboden, author of a fabulous recent book based on the very latest declassified files of the Reagan presidency entitled Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink. (I reviewed the book favorably in the Free Beacon.) In his distinguished career Inboden has worked on Captiol Hill and at the National Security
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