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Politics
Published on
October 31, 2025
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John Yoo
Steven Hayward
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The Three Whiskey Happy Hour

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Here’s Lookin’ at ‘Lookism’

About this episode

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 of Helen Andrews, Steve ran the episode even though it was Lucretia’s turn on the host rotation calendar. We could have called this episode “Revenge of the Manosphere.”

Steve and Lucretia consider a few news headlines, and some major stories conspicuously not making headlines* (such as the Houise investigation of the White House conspiracy to cover up Joe Biden’s senility), who Bill Kristol supports in the NY City mayor’s race (you’ll never guess), whether the climate cult is over, and alarm bells about rising anti-Israel sentiment among young conservatives. (We recorded before the Kevin Roberts video went live, however.)

And then we arrive at the main topic of the day: Lucretia defending herself against charges of “lookism.” Steve enlists an expert witness: the great Taki Theodoracopulos, who wrote way back in 1981 that American women were the ugliest in the world. Seems like the perfect topic for the week when the world discovered the Jennifer Welch, the Democrats’ newest It-Girl. (And naturally, the exit music this week is “Ugly Women,” by country musician Grant Langston.)

* Yes, that sentence is a sly reference to a light bulb joke: How many Straussians does it take to change a light bulb? None: the light is made conspicuous by its absence. (IYKYK, otherwise you don’t get Plato.)

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