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Steven Hayward, John Yoo, and "Lucretia" bring you a whisky-sodden perspective on the week's big headlines, and occasional deep dives into law and philosophy.

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S3 · E15
Sunday · 53 min
Knowledge or Not, Here We Come
This week's delayed episode is a throwback to the old days, with just Steve and Lucretia in attendance because travel schedules disrupted all three of the 3WHH bartenders. So the original dynamic duo just kick around some news highlights of the week,...
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S3 · E14
October 17 · 1 hr 5 min
Saving Western Civilization Edition
John Yoo turns up this week, along with a cameo from our favorite classicist Alex Priou, for an episode that ranged widely from McDonald's to the prospective deportation of Ihlan Omar to women's "athleisure-wear" in the gym, but in the end resolves to...
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S3 · E13
October 8 · 1 hr 5 min
Godwin's Law Edition
Sitcom viewers will recall the "Soup Nazi" from Seinfeld, but the famous Soup Nazi needs to yield to the latest iteration of this low form of comedy, as this week's episode features the person who has been called "the Shampoo Nazi"—Charles Haywood. We...
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S3 · E11
October 2 · 58 min
The Left's Death March Picks Up Speed
Way back in the 1970s Malcolm Muggeridge wrote a classic essay entitled "https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-great-liberal-death-wish/," but in recent years this forumulation has been becoming more pronounced. Forget abortion: the leading edge of...
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S3 · E10
September 26 · 1 hr 1 min
What the Hell Is This?
We don't know how to describe this episode. We start out by looking over the forthcomong docket of cases for the new term of the Supreme Court that begins next week, but then John Yoo, back from playing hookie last week, drops in a mischievous...
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S3 · E9
September 18 · 1 hr 17 min
Is Trump "The End of History"?
So it happens that Francis Fukuyama, who became famous because of his of book The End of History and the Last Man back in the early 1990s, is having a moment in 2026. See, he really didn't mean it, and besides, he is no longer even a neo-con but has...
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S3 · E8
September 11 · 1 hr 4 min
25 Years On
This week's episode is 100% ad-free, as we take up the somber subject of "memory against forgetting" (to borrow Milan Kundera's useful phrase) on the subject of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and we didn't want to risk getting an automated ad for...
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S3 · E7
September 4 · 1 hr 5 min
Is There a Modern Remedy for Ancient Hatred?
John Yoo is off again this week (I know—many of you think he's "off" every week!), so joining us as a special guest is Titus Techera, who wears many hats, including executive director of the American Cinema Foundation; Distinguished Fellow at...
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S3 · E6
August 28 · 1 hr 14 min
Privateering Edition
The band is back together again this week as John Yoo ends his truancy, and we take up the fresh legal and constitutional disputes of the moment, starting with the Supreme Court's recent rulings about mail-in ballots and the Trump Administration's...
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S3 · E5
August 23 · 1 hr 14 min
New Headlines and Old Time Religion
We're a day and a half late with this episode, but better late than never. It's just Steve and Lucretia this week—John Yoo will be back next week—and they spend the first half of the episode updating some of last week's main stories while noting that...
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S3 · E4
August 16 · 1 hr 18 min
Will the Rotting Timbers of Academia Finally Fall?
The shocking suicide of the fraudulent Jason Arday alongside the Atlantic cover story about how a mostly leftist scholar "of color" (Tyler Austin Harper) quit his tenure track job at Bates College because he couldn't stand "the insufferable hypocrisy...
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S3 · E3
August 8 · 1 hr 11 min
Post-Liberalism + "Henry Kissinger" Cameo?
This week's episode features frequent guest Phil Munoz of Notre Dame University, sitting in for John Yoo, discussing his very timely new article in First Things magazine on "https://firstthings.com/the-founders-and-the-common-good/." His article is...
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S3 · E2
August 7 · 34 min
Emergency Executive Order Edition
President Trump's executive orders Thursday afternoon attempting to re-ground his opposition to birthright citizenship prompted an emergency livestream with me and Lucretia on Substack. We wanted to get ahead of the certain hysteria of the blue-faced...
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S3 · E1
August 1 · 1 hr 14 min
The Hiatus Is Over!
The hiatus for the rebooted 3WHH is over! We got the band back together, and to further paraphrase the political philosophy of the Ellwood brothers, it's 70 minutes to the end of this podcast, we've got a full glass of whisky, half a pack of...
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S2 · E28
July 14 · 52 min
Emergency Edition, with John Eastman
Lots of people didn't get the memo that the 3WHH is on hiatus for the month of July as we revamp the show's format and lineup, but since I don't want loyal listeners to go into painful withdrawals, I am offering this emergency stopgap edition, with...
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S2 · E27
July 4 · 55 min
Gala July 4 Special Edition
Two guesses about the topic of this special bonus edition for today's semiquincentennial, and neither of them count. That's right: we take up the Declaration of Independence and revisit some of the lingering issues that have arisen during this season...
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S2 · E26
July 3 · 1 hr 2 min
Grading the Supreme Court Term
Well, that was quite a finish for this year's Supreme Court term, which, as usual, released the most controversial and consequential cases on the very last day of its sitting. This wrap-up episode—the first of a double-episode package for Jul4 4 since...
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S2 · E25
June 19 · 1 hr 2 min
Hot Apple Pie Surveillance Edition
This epicly (is "epicly" a real word?) gonzo episode finds Steve still somewhere in the middle of the storm-tossed north Pacific Ocean, while John and Lucretia hold down the fort from various locales back on dry land. But who else can knit together...
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S2 · E24
June 12 · 1 hr 1 min
Channeling Admiral Ackbar? (It's a Trap!)
This week's episode, which finds Steve over in Japan but still with a hoarse voice, ranges widely from exonerating John Yoo from being implicated in a major whiskey heist, to what the prodigious drinking habits of the Founding Fathers has to say about...
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S2 · E23
June 5 · 57 min
Jet Lag Edition
So your three bartenders are back from overseas, but still a bit jet lagged and struggling to keep up with the news. Was it a good week? The firing of Scott Pelley is certainly good news, as are the initial results of the California primary, where the...
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