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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 I went to an anime convention in Baltimore thirteen years ago. I didn't like anime, and I felt too old for the event, but I went out of curiosity. What I saw was the same kids in costumes.
#2 4chan. org, the website that Poole founded, was used to trade pictures of anime girls with his friends. It was eventually used by millions of people to trade pictures of anime...
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#1 The sacred place is where non-human intelligence is believed to have revealed itself to humans. It is a destination that is also teeming with kitschy shops where tourists and pilgrims can purchase UFO memorabilia.
#2 I was traveling with two other people, a professor and his student, to document the belief in extraterrestrial intelligence and the alleged artifacts....
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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 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 In August 2005, Dan Ivascyn drove around with his mortgage broker to look at houses in the suburbs of Boston. They talked about the state of the market, which was not surprising to Ivascyn. It was slowing slightly, but that was normal for this time of year.
#2 One of Ivascyn's colleagues was in Detroit, one in Miami, one in Vegas. They called their contacts at various...
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#1 The New Right is a loosely connected group of individuals who oppose progressivism, which they believe is a thinly veiled fundamentalist religion dedicated to egalitarian principles and intent on world domination via globalist hegemony.
#2 The New Right is not a geographically proximate movement, but it is more frequently represented by that one kid in his town networked...
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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 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 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 word torture is used so often and so inappropriately that it is necessary to define what it means before entering into any serious discussion of its uses. Torture is defined as the infliction of intense pain to punish, coerce, or provide sadistic pleasure.
#2 The use of torture, and the reasoning behind it, is always the same. The earliest use of torture...
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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 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 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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