The Three Whiskey Happy Hour: Globull Threats to Liberty
From Steven F. Hayward:
This special mid-week holiday edition of the 3WHH makes up for the lost ground over the weekend, when schedules prevented the bar from opening at any of the usual meet-up times. I am this week’s host, and Lucretia and I open by grilling John Yoo about his latest article, “Globalization’s Challenge to American Constitutionalism,” published at the sparkling new website of the Civitas Institute, where I also appears for the first time today on a separate subject, “The Future of Conservatism in America.”
While Lucretia and I completely agree with John about the insidious threat of “internationalism” to our constitutional sovereignty, we detect some tergiversations on John’s part that seem to offer—or so we say—too many concessions to progressive jurisprudence. Forget John’s overt positivism—his closet progressivism is slipping out!
From there discussion turns to the drone epidemic, where I offer two complementary theories about what is going on (neither of which involve foreign actors, stealth spy ships, or aliens), and Lucretia offers her drama review for Broadway’s newest stage sensation, who happens to wear judicial robes in her regular job. A dilemma indeed.
And about that ABC News libel settlement with Trump, more theories to chew over. Today the Wall Street Journal reports that “Disney’s legal team was concerned that given the current makeup of the Supreme Court, appealing a negative district court ruling could have jeopardized the landmark New York Times v. Sullivan ruling that protects the media in defamation cases.” This was my hypothesis about the settlement.
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