This is going to be unlike any previous edition of the Three Whisky Happy Hour, because it was literally recorded during happy hour at the annual meeting of the Federalist Society in Washington, in a corner of the mass reception hall where John Yoo and I invited all comers to swing by to offer a few comments. This completely unstructured (but therefore highly authentic!) conversation included Ilya Shaprio and Rafael Mangual of the Manhattan Institute; the esteemed Roger Pilon, emeritus of the Cato Institute; our old pal Hadley Arkes; prominent appellate attorney Eric Jaffa; and Utah lawyer (and loyal 3WHH listener) Jacob Minas. And it goes pretty much how you might expect a wandering happy hour conversation to go.
I had hoped that we’d have John Yoo outnumbered and outgunned on the natural law question, but several of our guests didn’t do their part! But we also did some election talk, so there is something for everyone. It may be a little hard to follow without a playbill, but I haven’t figured out how to do audio chyron.
And many thanks to all the Power Line readers and podcast listeners who said hello this week. Next year we might just have to have our own display table or breakout session.
So here it is, in all its in- or unglory:
And over at Ricochet yesterday, we covered the Trump 2 administration’s early personnel moves and related issues with Andy McCarthy:
