3 Whisky Happy Hour

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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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Yesterday · 1 hr 11 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: 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...
Friday · 34 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: 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...
August 1 · 1 hr 14 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: 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...
July 14 · 52 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: 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...
July 4 · 55 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: 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...
July 3 · 1 hr 2 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: 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...
June 19 · 1 hr 2 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: 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...
June 12 · 1 hr 1 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: 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...
June 5 · 57 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: 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...
May 29 · 53 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Tackling the Admin. State from Sicily
The end of this week finds the 3WHH crew in situ in Enna, up in the highlands of Sicily, visiting the University of Kore for a conference on, well, everything, though it is hard to tell since half the speakers are speaking in Italian and the rest of...
May 23 · 53 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Rolling Road Trip Edition
We could have called this the jeg lag from hell episode, as John Yoo managed to spend 11 hours on a airplane yesterday that didn't fly anywhere, while Steve, already planted as an advance guard in Palermo ahead of next week's conference in Sicily...
May 18 · 56 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Gonzo Hybrid-Reboot Edition
[CORRECTED AUDIO] We've had some gonzo episodes before, and a couple of trainwrecks, but this is the first-ever episode that is actually two episodes edited together, with sequence changes, new sound effects, canned insults from John, etc. I...
May 9 · 58 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: From Plato to NATO
Another hectic week for your 3WHH bartenders, and John Yoo wasn't able to join us at all, so this week's episode includes a special guest Steve has long wanted to bring on, Alex Priou of the University of Austin, the bold, brash start-up that has...
May 2 · 53 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Left Blows a Gasket
The left was already hysterical ever since Trump won a second term, but this week the left had a total meltdown after the Supreme Court scaled back racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act. And the Three Whisky Happy Hour was totally there...
April 25 · 1 hr
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Thomas Derangement Syndrome?
Move over Trump Derangement Syndrome! The left is clearly afflicted now with a full-blown case of Thomas Derangement Syndrome—after Justice...
April 18 · 49 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Almost Live from Tampa
For the second week in a row, the 3WHH gang (minus one) were on the road, this time recording live in the corner of a hotel lobby before the annual meeting of the Philadelphia Society. The sound quality of this episode is . . . authentic. Yes, I'll go...
April 11 · 1 hr 5 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Live from Tulsa!
This week the 3WHH podcast "went mobile people!", venturing to the University of Tulsa's College of Law for a live-taping before an enthusiastic audience of law students, faculty, and some loyal listeners. We departed slightly from our usual format,...
April 3 · 1 hr 2 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: From Birthright Religion to "Lockistotle"
Notre Dame's Tocqueville professor of political science, Vincent Phillip Munoz (Phil to his freinds and colleagues), joins this special episode which finds all three of your regular bartenders in the same room for once while on the road in Austin,...
March 28 · 1 hr 3 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Send the TSA to Iran?
Be afraid, be very afraid, as this livestreamed edition of the 3WHH featured special effects for the first time. Steve has a new toy—a soundboard that comes with the classic sound effects. These turn out to be quite useful when pondering where the...
March 21 · 55 min
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Shots Fired—Winning Here, Losing There
This week we raise the Jolly Roger against an imitator podcast that is intruding on the 3WHH's exclusive right of commentary on all things McDonald's, but then we move on to our own balance sheet about the Iran War (verdict—we're winning big, and...