The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Almost Live Q & A Episode
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 hold a live taping streamed on YouTube (in Steve’s case, accompanied by Bad Rock rye whisky that “Pizza Bob” supplied directly to him this week), but we missed a technical step in the preparation process and couldn’t get it to work. But we have posted the video anyway on our all-new 3WHH Podcast YouTube Channel. And we’ll aim to get the livestream option working by next week.
In anything case, we did have a small audience join us live on the Zoom webinar, and we fielded a number of listener and reader questions, culminating in a long discussion of good books about the American Founding, to get a jump on the semiquincentennial (250th) anniversary of the Declaration of Independence coming up next July. Steve went with four short books: Edmund Morgan’s classic Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789; Martin Diamond’s The Founding of the Democratic Republic (hard to find alas); Gordon Wood’s The American Revolution: A History (which is both much shorter and better than his famous Creation of the American Republic); and Larry Arnn’s The Founders’ Key: The Divine and Natural Connection Between the Declaration and the Constitution and What We Risk by Losing It.
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