History has shown that presidents tend to abuse their power in their second term, and that the best presidents tend to serve less than eight years in office. This was a blatantly unconstitutional power grab by the executive office. Over a two-year period, the Obama administration delayed the implementation of the Affordable Care Act twenty-eight times, ostensibly to give employers time to comply with the law. By the time Obama left office earlier this year, Americans suffered under twenty-eight consecutive years of unconstitutional executive usurpation of power.
His violations created a blueprint for more executive abuse in the future. Lincoln violated the Constitution because as commander in chief he believed he had to “subdue the enemy,” no matter the collateral damage. In this episode we discuss who they were, why they were so good or bad, and whether Brion has seen Hamilton on Broadway (he has a book on him coming out later this year). After all, he wrote a book called 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America: And Four Who Tried to Save Her. I can almost guarantee that you won't be able to guess who he names as the good and bad presidents. Rather it's a position grounded in thorough research an consideration of what the real responsibility of a president is. But he is not making this argument for the sake of being a contrarian. But Abraham Lincoln? Brion McClanahan-again, being original here-makes the argument that Lincoln, far from being America's savior, may have done her irreparable harm. Harding, or (if you're an insufferable history nerd like me) Millard Fillmore. You can point to a Jimmy Carter, a Herbert Hoover, a Warren G. Confused looks then follow, usually with a question of "Who was that again?" On the other hand, we all have presidents whom we think were terrible. He gladly tells people that the greatest president in American history was John Tyler. You probably said Washington or Lincoln, right? C'mon. Learn about this strange period in history and how it all came to an end in the early 1800s.Quick – name your favorite president. Even John Smith of Pocahontas fame was a slave in Istanbul. Miguel de Cervantes spent years in North Africa.
Although few know the stories of these captives, the threat of piracy on the Mediterranean had a huge impact on the Western World. This episode looks at a little-known chapter in the history of slavery. Attractive women were sent to harems and became a pasha's concubine. Some spent the rest of their lives rowing galleys. They and others were snatched from their homes, taken in chains to the slave markets of Algiers, and sold to the highest bidder. In 1632, pirates captured the Irish city of Baltimore. Barbary Pirates enslaved an estimated 1 million Europeans in the period from 1500 to 1800.Įnslavement was a real possibility for anyone who traveled in the Mediterranean or who lived along the shores in places like Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, and even as far north as England and Iceland.
It was the capture of Europeans by north-African Muslims. As the trans-Atlantic slave trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas began to grow in the 1500s, there was another slave trade that operated on an even larger scale in the same time period.
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