Another Weekend Podcast Trifecta

This time I actually turn up on *some else's* podcast

Just in time for your weekend, another podcast trifecta. Let’s start with the Ricochet podcast, which is just up on the home page, in which Charles, James, and I discuss the general suckitude of the Democratic Party with Ruy Teixiera, proprietor of The Liberal Patriot Substack. Although an old-fashioned social democrat in many ways, he’s a major dissident from the progressivism currently wrecking the Democratic Party. He says that Democrats right now need “Two, Three, Many Sister Souljah Moments!”

As usual, listen right here, or over at the Ricochet direct link.

Meanwhile, this week I actually made an appearance as a podcast guest rather than host for a change, at the “Saving Elephants” website and podcast, run by a young guy named Josh Lewis who lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He wanted to understand some of the gap between younger conservatives today and oldsters like me, and the result is a podcast episode entitled “Paradigming Phenomenological Essences.” (I am sure Lucretia will want to skip this one. . . Just a hunch. Is “paradigming” even a verb?) Here’s the description:

Steven Hayward has been involved in so many conservative institutions and organizations it may be simpler to list where he hasn’t left a mark. This conservative man-about-town joins Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis as they unravel what it means to be a conservative, how Straussians might make peace with Burke, and why Josh shouldn’t be so critical of the Trump administration.

Anyway, listen here, or at the link above.

Finally, the Three Whisky Happy Hour is ready, though it didn’t go according to plan. With John Yoo away to Korea this week, where he says he is "lecturing," but we know really just arranging to smuggle back a ton of tariff-free Korean barbecue sauce, we attempted to livestream our taping on our new YouTube channel, but we missed a technical step in the preparation process and couldn't get it to work. At least I had some Bad Rock rye whisky that "Pizza Bob" supplied directly to me this week to get me through the tech failure. We have posted the video already here, or watch it embedded below. 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 sent along in advance, 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.

Lucretia offered up her oral history of how the founding ought to be understood and more importantly taught to students, before settling on a challenging new book, Edward Erler's Prophetic Statesmanship: Harry Jaffa, Abraham Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address, which doesn't sound like it's about the American Founding, but actually is. And we had a few other stray books to include, which is likely more than our questioner wanted. In any case, much more to come as we draw near to the 250th July 4 next year.

So listen here, or over at Ricochet when the link goes live, or your other favorite podcast outlet: