The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Heart of Texas Episode
This week all three of your whisky-swilling disputationists found themselves together in Austin, Texas, for a Civitas Institute conference, and we managed to sneak away to record this week’s episode in person. Though you wish earnestly for us to return to Substack or Zoom, since we had some technical challenges with our sound mix (one microphone wouldn’t work at all, and we weren’t able to fix it much in post-production).
In any case, after noting how John’s beloved McRibb is going to rescue Bitcoin from its recent 40% slump, we get down to business, answering a reader/ listener comment asking what, exactly, is “scientific” about “political science”? And for our second topic, we beat up John (so what else is new, you ask) about his forthcoming essay on “The Declaration of Independence as a Constitution,” part of our ongoing consideration of the Declaration ahead of the 250th anniversary this summer. To be continued. . .
The Three Whiskey Happy Hour
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As long as most Americans receive health insurance as an invisible, employer-managed fringe benefit, health care will remain expensive, opaque, and unresponsive.
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