Civitas Outlook
Topic
Politics
Published on
May 31, 2025
Contributors
John Yoo
Steven Hayward
Episode
The Three Whiskey Happy Hour

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Time for Viking Justice?

About this episode

John Yoo hosts this week where there is so much free trade in ideas that you’d need a 1,000% tariff to slow it down. Which the U.S. Court of Intenational Trade attempted to do for about six hours, during which time the 3WHH panel chews up the ruling and spits it out like a bad piece of Icelandic cod. (Which happens to be where Steve, now dubbed as the “International Man of No-Mystery,” happens to be at the moment, which is why this episode comes with more than the usual amount of viking jokes and Norse epic poetry.) Anyway, the gang predicts this issue is likely to be another win for Trump when the dust settles.

But first the gang also ponders whether Trump is overdoing it with his attack on Harvard. Is it possible to overdo the attack on Harvard? You’ll have to give a listen to this ad-free episode to find out.

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