Episode: May 17, 2024
Length: 23 Minutes
Outcome: Not added to Library
Link to episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-presidents-daily-brief/id1617887885?i=1000655901943
Mike Baker hosts this podcast. It is broken down into three sections with commercial breaks between each of them. Baker picked a handful of news stories and presents them with an occasional sarcastic remark or poor attempt at humor.
The news that he presented in this episode focused mostly on foreign affairs. Even the story about an American college resolved around protests in favor of Palestine.
There is not a lot of depth in the story but they do a good job of quickly highlighting what is happening in the world on a given day.
Overall if there is some major event that happens I might give this a listen on a given day, but I will not be adding it to my library.
Thomas Aquinas is credited as one of the greatest proponents of natural law. During his time in Cologne he was taught by Albertus Magnus. Magnus used the teachings of Aristotle in his mentorship of Thomas Aquinas.
Samuel Adams believed in American Independence from Great Britain. He is one of the most well know Son's of Liberty. On August 1, 1776 he gave a speech to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
Edmund Burke
