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November 14, 2026
3 Whisky Happy Hour•November 14, 2026

•Episode length: 58m

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Three Natural Lawyers & a Positivist Walk Into a Bar. . .

Episode length: 58m

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If you're old enough you may recall when the TV networks would do crossover episodes that combined two prime-time cop shows, such as New York's Cagney & Lacey teaming up with San Diego's Simon & Simon to solve a caper in Denver. Well this week the 3WHH has joined forces with the cast of the James Wilson Institute's "Natural Law Moment" podcast for our own version of a crossover.

Lucretia wasn't able to join John and Steve in Washington DC this week as planned—not to worry anxious listeners; she hasn't been shipped off to a re-education camp by the new regime elected last week (not yet anyway)—so we were joined by the stalwarts of the James Wilson Institute, our old pal Hadley Arkes, and the JWI's co-director Gerry Bradley. Of course, this was all an elaborate ruse, as it was really a staged intervention to shake John Yoo of his intractable legal positivism.

We recorded before a live audience, a side event from the annual lawyers convention of the Federalist Society this week. And even though we recorded in the morning with only coffee to affect our brains, you might well think we were into our second bottle of single malt from the fast-flying banter of the episode.

Hosted by John Yoo and Steve Hayward

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    Red Herring@EHerring·3h

    This debate between lawyers was actually quite interesting. I'm more interested in the James Wilson institute now.

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