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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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The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Prog Mask Slips!

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Prog Mask Slips!

Dec 13, 2025·

It's the usual brawl at the bar with the three barflies of the Three Whisky Happy Hour, where we take note of Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson sayiing the quiet (progressive) part out loud, likely flattered by the New...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The No Pearl-Clutching Zone

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The No Pearl-Clutching Zone

Dec 5, 2025·

Lucretia hosts this week's episode with the running theme that there's too much pearl clutching going on among the hand-wringers in Washington and the media. We flop our pearls of wisdom on the Tennessee special...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Why John Adams Would Get Sydney Sweeney

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Why John Adams Would Get Sydney Sweeney

Nov 29, 2025·

Now we know what you're thinking: if we have on as a special guest historian Richard Samuelson, one of the pre-eminent experts on John Adams, you'd think we find out what Adams thought about the Clean Air Act, but no!...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Special Thanksgiving Day Edition

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Special Thanksgiving Day Edition

Nov 27, 2025·

Naturally the 3WHH bartenders can't agree on the best way to cook a Thanksgiving turkey as well as the side dishes at the outset of this special Thanksgiving Day edition, but after that we get down to discussing what to...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Bringing the Wood to Wood

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Bringing the Wood to Wood

Nov 23, 2025·

Another week of last minute schedule changes, flight delays, lost iPads, misplaced laptops, and other mishaps delayed the recording of this week's episode, but finally on Saturday night we were able to sit down for an...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Getting a Grip on Groypers

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Getting a Grip on Groypers

Nov 14, 2025·

While it was sorely tempting to devote the entire show to celebrating the return of Sydney Sweeney to the public eye last week, we decided to turn our attention to the serious matter of antisemitism on the right, and...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Gonzo Happy Hour-Squared Edition

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Gonzo Happy Hour-Squared Edition

Nov 8, 2025·

You might want to think of this totally gonzo episode as the 3WHH-Squared, as it was taped live during happy hour Friday night in a very noisy Washington Hilton Hotel at the annual conference of the Federalist Society...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Here's Lookin' at 'Lookism'

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Here's Lookin' at 'Lookism'

Oct 31, 2025·

The 3WHH is a man down this week as John was unavailable, so Steve and Lucretia soldiered on without his ritual abuse of their superior taste in political philosophy, prudence, and natural law. And in the best fashion...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Woman Troubles?

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Woman Troubles?

Oct 25, 2025·

Helen Andrews' Compact article on " The Great Feminization " is causing a stir, provoking responses from left, right, and in-between. And I just know that everyone wants to hear David French's take on it, because how...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Return of the Neocons?

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Return of the Neocons?

Oct 18, 2025·

With John Yoo hosting this week's episode in a vain attempt to deflect attacks, we devote most of the episode to foreign policy questions, ranging from Gaza, Ukraine, Venezuela, China, and... Africa? Yes, Africa. And...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Trump—A New Columbus?

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Trump—A New Columbus?

Oct 11, 2025·

The week ended with President Trump issuing a proclamation celebrating Columbus Day, rather than Indigenous People's Day as the identitarians and western-guilt mongers have crammed down on us for the last generation...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Rumble in the State of Nature Jungle

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Rumble in the State of Nature Jungle

Oct 3, 2025·

We were finally able to schedule a taping with enough lead time to get a special guest we've been wanting to have on for a long time—the great Hadley Arkes, emertus professor of jurisprudence from Amherst College and...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Million Miles to Go Edition

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Million Miles to Go Edition

Sep 26, 2025·

Steve reached 2 million lifetime miles on United Airlines this week, which meant party hats and free drinks on his flight to Washington (yet still no invitation to join Global Services), but despite all that he botched...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Demonic—Both Whimsical and Serious

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Demonic—Both Whimsical and Serious

Sep 19, 2025·

We open today's ad-free episode with a whimsical look at the global sensation over the Number One Netflix show, " K-Pop Demon Hunters," and despite his Korean heritage, John Yoo can't explain it either. But near as we...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Emergency Episode About Charlie Kirk

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Emergency Episode About Charlie Kirk

Sep 10, 2025·

No bumper music, mirth about McDonalds, whisky, Babylon Bee headlines, or AI Haiku today: the assassination of Charlie Kirk is too serious a matter. John, Lucretia, and Steve (who is still over in Iceland hiking)...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour, On the 'Theological-Political Problem'

The Three Whisky Happy Hour, On the 'Theological-Political Problem'

Sep 6, 2025·

With Steve and John away overseas, Lucretia takes full control of the podcast this week, welcoming back a much more sober special guest, Prof. Vincent Munoz of Notre Dame University, this semester visiting at the...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: McDs vs Cracker Barrel, and other Burning Topics

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: McDs vs Cracker Barrel, and other Burning Topics

Aug 29, 2025·

In the same week Cracker Barrel retreats on its foolish decision to "rebrand" itself with a proposed logo as boring as a hospital parking lot sign (with new interior decor to match), John Yoo, freshly back from his...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Almost Live Q & A Episode

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Almost Live Q & A Episode

Aug 22, 2025·

John Yoo is over in Korea this week, where he says he is "lecturing," but we know he's really just arranging to smuggle back a ton of tariff-free Korean barbecue sauce. So in his absence Steve and Lucretia attempted to...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Summit of Everything

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: The Summit of Everything

Aug 15, 2025·

The Three Musketeers of the 3WHH are back with our typical end-of-week roundup, including what we think of the Trump-Putin summit (which will be over by the time everyone listens to this, so this is an exercise in sheer...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Classic Format Conversation with Michael Walsh

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Classic Format Conversation with Michael Walsh

Aug 14, 2025·

This special episode marks the revival of the classic format edition with one-on-one conversations between Steve and a special guest, with the first in the series being author Michael Walsh, discussing his terrific new...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: With Special Guest Star Ken Green

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: With Special Guest Star Ken Green

Aug 8, 2025·

This week's episode expands the format to include a guest appearance by environmental scientist Ken Green, whe recently joined the ranks of contributors to Steve's " Political Questions " Substack (sign up for free if...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Tempest in a D Cup Edition

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Tempest in a D Cup Edition

Aug 1, 2025·

This week the 3WHH lives up to its name, as two of us were half in the bag—maybe more than half in the bag in Steve's case—when we recorded late in the evening because difficult travel schedules, but after Steve and...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: High Crimes & Misdemeanors

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: High Crimes & Misdemeanors

Jul 25, 2025·

We lead this week's show with a few short news announcements, including new menu items from McDonalds to excite John, and the debut of a new podcast competitor: Hadley Arkes and his merry band at the James Wilson...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Making Child's Play of Everyone's Files

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Making Child's Play of Everyone's Files

Jul 18, 2025·

Among the revelations of this week's episode that were entirely predictable when you think about it: "Lucretia" was a child TV star in Mason City, Iowa, on the local non-PBS kid's show " Bart's Clubhouse "; John Yoo...

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Special AWOL Edition

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Special AWOL Edition

Jul 14, 2025·

Behold the great 3WHH fugitive episode. Although it was posted over the weekend, somehow an Internet gremlin or something disappeared it! But now it's back, in its restored glory. (Well, almost restored. Steve had a...

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