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Get the Summary of Steven E. Koonin's Unsettled in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Fascinating, clear-headed, and full of surprises, this book gives readers the tools to both understand the climate issue and be savvier consumers of science media in general. Koonin takes readers behind the headlines to the more nuanced science itself, showing us where it comes from and guiding us through...
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Get the Summary of David Enrich's Servants of the Damned in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Since 2016, Jones Day has been in the spotlight for representing Donald Trump and his campaigns (and now his PACs)-and for the fleet of Jones Day attorneys who joined his administration, including White House Counsel Don McGahn. Jones Day helped Trump fend off the Mueller investigation and challenged...
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#1 The Chinese have a paradox of their origins. They believe that they are eternal, and that their civilization has no beginning. They believe that they have always been living in the same stage of advancement as in the present day.
#2 Chinese history is filled with periods of civil war, interregnum, and chaos. But each period of disunity was viewed as an aberration,...
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Get the Summary of Miranda Devine's “Laptop from Hell” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden's campaign.
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#1 The left has completely lost its mind. It is now authoritarian and puritanical, and it has replaced the battle of ideas with a battle of feelings. It has replaced honesty with outrage.
#2 I was a closeted gay man for twenty-five years, and it nearly broke me. I developed a habit of downing bottles of cheap red wine alone in my apartment. One day in September 2001,...
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#1 The prepper community is full of people who believe that the only way to cope with an upcoming disaster is to change the way we treat one another, the economy, and the environment right now.
#2 The farm was also serving as an equestrian center and tactical training facility. J. C. knew his stuff, and he was able to train young farmers in sustainable agriculture.
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#1 The Americas were home to many anticolonial insurgencies during the Age of Revolution, and slavery was the main issue facing the Americas. The Founding Fathers looked to Europe for inspiration, and drew on the ideas of John Locke and other Enlightenment philosophers to construct rationales for racial slavery.
#2 The Age of Revolution saw the birth of Black radicalism,...
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#1 The Fed's decision to lower interest rates to the zero bound in 2008 triggered a worldwide panic that blindsided the Federal Reserve. The Fed's balance sheet had grown to $4. 5 trillion by 2016, thanks to its quantitative easing policies, which had frozen the economy in motion.
#2 The Fed's high interest rates in the 1980s killed the steel and auto industries in Erie,...
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#1 The idea that anger can regulate tribes is something that people are unlikely to be familiar with. It helps us understand what's happening in politics today.
#2 Sports fans teach us that tribalism motivates. The angry fan is a functional minority who is loyal, committed, and feels the tribal identity strongly. They regulate and reinforce tribal identity, which is...
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#1 There is some good news, but also a lot of bad news. The state is lending more and more support to the effort to fight this virus, but it is still raining and windy outside.
#2 The three government officials from Hubei who spoke at the press conference were all extremely exhausted and depressed, and they kept making mistakes during their presentations. However, this...
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#1 My Hinduism is a lived faith, it is a Hinduism of experience and upbringing, a Hinduism of observation and conversation. It is not anchored in deep religious study, but I have always been curious about ancient Indian traditions and beliefs.
#2 Hinduism is the name that foreigners first applied to the indigenous religion of India. It encompasses an eclectic range...
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#1 The violence of these examples is perplexing. What does Anton's brother and nephew and Kimmy's friend have to do with anything. What explains their actions, taken one week or five years later.
#2 The person-to-person spread of violence is not a novelty, but rather an ancient phenomenon. It is not just that the impetus to revenge is ancient, but that violence can spread...
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#1 I believe that the best way to avoid dangerous forms of tribalism is to remain resolutely individualistic. I thought that the age of nationalism would eventually give way to an era of cosmopolitanism, in which we cared about those around us rather than those with whom we shared blood.
#2 Our tendency to form groups is what makes us humans, and it is what has enabled...
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#1 The General in charge of the operation had doubts about whether the anti-government forces were a genuine threat to the union or just a bunch of hooligans. He had no choice but to begin the next civil war.
#2 Before Biden's election, calls for active armed resistance against the federal government spiked. This was not some guy blasting off in a Facebook post, but...
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#1 The Victorian era was a time of sexual repression, and the image of the imperial prude is emblazoned on our restrained, mute, and hypocritical sexuality. The Victorian regime supported a Victorian regime.
#2 Repression is the characteristic feature of Victorian society, which distinguishes it from the prohibitions maintained by penal law. Repression is the practice...
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#1 The question of how China will behave as the dominant Asian power is central to the likely course of Asian and world history. China's leaders are serious about replacing the United States as the number 1 power in Asia, and they have a strategy for doing so.
#2 China's leaders believe that becoming the dominant Asian power will allow them to share the century with...
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#1 A phenomenological study of the house reveals the fundamental value of inside space. The house is a privileged place for studying the intimate values of inside space, provided we take it in its unity and complexity.
#2 The house is a privileged place to study the intimate values of inside space. The house, like fire and water, will allow us to explore the synthesis...
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#1 Write because it's something to do, something your parents will let you do because it looks like homework. Write because you need to drown out the sound of your parents' fighting deep into the night. When your favorite professor, senior year, fails your paper on modernism, you promise yourself to write more.
#2 When you are writing your thesis, do not mention that...
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#1 In the late eleventh and twelfth centuries, Spain was a scholar's paradise. It was ruled by a tolerant Islamic authorities, but its Christian rulers supported a highly developed society that included scholars and physicians.
#2 In the late 11th and 12th centuries, Spain was a scholar's paradise. It was ruled by a tolerant Islamic authorities, but its Christian rulers...
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#1 Queen Elizabeth was born in Regent's Park. The area is now home to luxury stores and fashionable restaurants, embassies, and five-star hotels. It is not easy to find Cumberland Terrace, the house where Daphne du Maurier was born in 1907.
#2 The little girl, Daphne, has to pass under the arch and climb the steps to the house. She likes to look at the maids' uniforms,...
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