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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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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 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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#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 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 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 painter is standing a little back from his canvas. He is glancing at his model, and perhaps considering whether to add some finishing touch. The arm holding the brush is motionless between canvas and paints. The skilled hand is suspended in mid-air, waiting on the painter's gaze.
#2 The painting is a representation of the invisible space behind the painting. It...
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#1 I have always been drawn to the stories of violence in Iraq, even though I was never in any danger myself. I feel that by not talking about these experiences, we are failing to process them.
#2 I was given two weeks' leave halfway through my deployment, and I went home to New York. At one point, I walked down Madison Avenue near where it intersects with Broadway....
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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 There is no single, unambiguous thing called liberalism. All the liberalisms that have existed, and that exist, select certain items from an accumulated and crowded liberal repertoire and leave others out, both because some elements are incompatible with others and because intellectual fashions and practices change.
#2 There is often disagreement over which...
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#1 On Memorial Day weekend in 2014, Elliot Rodger went to the Alpha Phi sorority house at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and began shooting students. He killed two and wounded one. He went on to kill one man and injure fourteen others, in a subsequent drive-by shooting spree.
#2 Incels, or involuntary celibates, are a group of mostly young, heterosexual...
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#1 The divide between the well-educated and less-educated has become a new source of anxiety and anger in our societies. The less-educated, both in the metropolis and nationally, are in crisis, while the well-educated are forging themselves into a new ruling class.
#2 The lack of a purposeful life is evident in the falling life expectancy of whites who have not been...
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#1 The business classes, which largely run the country, are highly class conscious. They have achieved the results you describe. However, neoliberal policies are in shambles. They have come to harm the most powerful and privileged, so they cannot be sustained.
#2 Electoral campaigns are designed to marginalize issues and focus on personalities, rhetorical style, body...
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#1 In 2015, a young man comes to New York City and starts a company that plans to host a music festival. The festival's online rollout is a success, but the entrepreneur has to keep inventing new perks to sell tickets to cover the costs of the ones that have already been purchased.
#2 A girl from Texas grows up wanting to be Steve Jobs, and she builds a company that...
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#1 To survive our impending crises, we must avoid disaster in two relationships: the one we have with one another, and the one between the US and China.
#2 The United States is a nation of contradictions. While the country led the world in hospitalizations and deaths from COVID, it also set records for speed of production and distribution of game-changing vaccines.
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#1 The Italian government has declared a state of emergency, and has imposed severe restrictions on freedom in order to combat the SARS epidemic. But according to the National Research Council, the infection actually causes mild/moderate symptoms in 80 to 90 percent of cases.
#2 The CNR's response to the flu is absurd. The state of precarity and fear that has been systematically...
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#1 The status of women has always been different from the status of men, and this has been enforced by law. The legal constraints on women in the modern West were not much short of de facto slavery until the eighteenth century.
#2 Second-wave feminism, which was based on the idea that women are not born but rather become women, was born in the 1950s. It argued that...
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#1 FDR's New Deal was a lifeline for many Americans. It was a program that addressed the economic interests of many different classes and invested in improvements in public goods to generate jobs in the short term and a better society in the long term.
#2 The New Deal was a lifeline for many Americans. It was a program that addressed the economic interests of many different...
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