Podcasts
August 3, 2024 — Steven Hayward
What do Trump’s controversial appearance before black journalists, the Olympics controversy over the gender of boxers, and the protean identity of Kamala Harris have in common? Simple—they are all an aspect of what I believes is the central political and moral-philosophical issue of our age: human nature. Everyone seems to think Trump blundered by questioning the authenticity of Harris’s changing ethnic identity, but Lucretia and I—in rare heated agreement—think it
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July 27, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Like an old 80s sitcom, this episode was taped before a live audience of about 90 regular listeners who carried on a vigorous commentary and questions in the Zoom chat, and we had a special guest at the very end—John Hinderaker in the (virtual) flesh! And since we actually recorded during happy hour for a change (and not Saturday morning as has been the case for the last several weeks),
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July 20, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Well that certainly was a week. Seems more like a year now since the news that Judge Cannon declared special DoJ prosecutor Jack Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional, but it was only Monday. But we didn’t even get into this issue in this episode, even though a weekly defense of the Constitution is in our union contract. Is there anything new or original left to be said about the political events
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July 15, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This afternoon I recorded a podcast with David Zimmer, public safety policy fellow at American Experiment. As a Captain in the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, David has participated in security at three presidential inaugurations in Washington, D.C., leading a team of 40 to 45 officers from his department. He has also worked with the Secret Service to provide security for more than a dozen presidential visits to Minnesota. So he
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July 13, 2024 — Steven Hayward
The prolonged agony of Joe Biden is causing rifts in the political universe similar to what a black hole does—a vortex sucking everything into a void beyond which lie quantum unknowns. This episode ponders a number of those unknowns as best we can. First off, we note the sudden media/Democratic Party discovery of “Project 2025,” and enumerate a few items we wish would be included, like year-round McRibs at McDonalds,
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July 4, 2024 — Steven Hayward
For your listening pleasure while you fire up the grill and align your fireworks today or over the weekend, the gang assembled for a special July 4 edition of the 3WHH, with extensive discussion—and disagreement—about whether President Biden will step aside and whether Kamala Harris will replace him. I say Yes, John Yoo says no, and Lucretia, who is in the host chair today, is simply horrified at the whole
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July 2, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Last month while John Yoo and I were larping around central Europe in search of the rule of law, we happened to make the acquaintance of former (and perhaps future?) Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who graciously agreed to sit down for a conversation about his broad gauge view of the world scene right now. We heard him give a terrific speech at the Danube Institute, which you can take
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June 29, 2024 — Steven Hayward
This week is another podcast two-fer for both me and John Yoo, as we were guests on the Ricochet podcast yesterday, and back for our own weekly 3WHH podcast this morning. There isn’t much repetition between the two, and the Ricochet link is at the bottom of this post. John Yoo hosts this week’s 3WHH episode, and manages to coax some cheerfulness out of Lucretia while also skillfully avoiding the
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June 26, 2024 — Steven Hayward
If you follow news out of Israel these days—and who doesn’t?—you may have caught the story early this week that Israel’s Supreme Court issued a ruling that the government may not exempt the haredim (Israel’s ultra-orthodox community) from military service. The ruling went further, though, than just ending an exemption from service: the court ruled that government funding must be cut off from any yeshivas (schools) that do not comply
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June 23, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Victor Davis Hanson is out talking about The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation. Listening to his interview on the current Ricochet podcast with Rob Long and Steve Hayward, I learn that Victor has been working his way through a second round of Covid. He contracted this one while leading 160 travelers on a tour to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Victor, take care
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June 22, 2024 — Steven Hayward
We hadn’t even planned to do a regular episode this week because John Yoo is over in Korea (where he is enjoying a 30-year old Ballentine whisky), I was away at a three-day conference, and Lucretia is breaking in a new kitten. But we received urgent messages from listeners and readers asking us to please decode just what the Supreme Court did this week, especially in the Moore v U.S.
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June 15, 2024 — Steven Hayward
No sooner do we have a “reunion” episode last week than travel schedules blow it all up again. With John Yoo away on another junket (supposedly teaching a summer law seminar somewhere, but really in search of more elusive McRibs), Lucretia and I decided to do a live episode where we pondered what might be called the “meta-narrative” (that would be “McNarrative” to John Yoo) behind the sharply differing constitutional
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June 13, 2024 — Steven Hayward
It’s been six months since we had a live taping of the Three Whisky Happy Hour podcast, and we’re going to remedy this lapse tomorrow (Friday) evening. John Yoo is away this week on yet another junket and can’t join us, and rather than have a guest host Lucretia and I decided to invite all comers. The taping will go off at 5 pm Pacific/8 pm Eastern, and you can
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June 8, 2024 — Steven Hayward
The Three Whisky Happy Hour bartenders are finally back in the same time zone, and Lucretia fills in John and me about what happened while we were away partying in Europe. We mostly skip over doting on Biden’s dotage, and take up Jed Rubenfeld’s argument that Trump isn’t technically a “convicted felon” yet, and might have strong case for immediate relief from the Supreme Court. We finally have a long-postponed
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June 5, 2024 — Steven Hayward
BUDAPEST, June 5: This Sunday the member states of the European Union will be going to the polls to elect their members of the European Parliament. I don’t exactly know just what the European Parliament does either, and it has become boring viewing ever since Nigel Farage departed the European Parliament after Brexit. But there is intense campaigning underway. The streets of Budapest are lined with campaign posters, and there
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June 1, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Lucretia hosts this episode from her bunker in an undisclosed location in the desert southwest while John and I are still gallivanting over in Europe. And as hinted in a Power Line post, she is thermo-nuclear furious about the Trump verdict. Rather than rehash the details of the case, which everyone has picked over thoroughly by this point, the 3WHH considers what it means, and what may or should happen
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May 31, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Not sure if there is going to be a regular episode of the Three Whisky Happy Hour this weekend. John is now in Venice, while I am still in Budapest (hanging out this rainy day in Cafe Scruton), while Lucretia is nine time zones behind us in her bunker, no doubt lockin’ and loadin.’ And I am sure regular listeners want to know whether she is spitting mad, or megaton-level
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