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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 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 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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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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#1 The past 200 years have seen a stupendous leap in the standard of living for billions of people around the world. In 2012, life expectancy in the most affluent countries surpassed that in the poorest country, Sierra Leone.
#2 The past two centuries have seen explosive growth both in population and prosperity worldwide. Per capita income is now ten times what it was...
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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 The Bretton Woods conference was held in 1944 and was responsible for creating the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The Americans were in charge of the Allied side of the war, and they were the only ones who wanted these institutions.
#2 The Americans had a navy that was the most powerful...
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#1 The young man can't mature without an absolute conviction of the universality of the law of cause and effect. When there is an intervening good fairy, the boy and the young man will exploit it.
#2 The only control over human behavior is force or the threat of force, or the desire to avoid its power. If the child does not observe reverence, he will not learn the rules...
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#1 When I came home from Rome, I wanted to be managed by millionaire William Reynolds. In fact, when I returned, I found that Reynolds had been praised across America for what he was about to do for me.
#2 I had been sent to meet with Billy Reynolds, a millionaire fighter who wanted to become my manager. I had never been able to afford the proper boxing equipment or...
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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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#1 As schools and businesses shut down, the Fed went into overdrive. Alongside COVID-19, another disease was spreading, and its progress could not be halted using N-95s or social distancing. This disease moved faster than any virus, and threatened economic harm as great as the pandemic itself.
#2 A panic is when a shock causes an initial round of selling, which in turn...
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#1 I had written an article titled How white women use strategic tears to silence women of color that was shared on Facebook by Lisa Benson, an Emmy-winning African-American television journalist in Kansas City. She was fired soon thereafter for creating a hostile working environment based on race and gender.
#2 Black and brown women are often the victims of gendered...
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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 The execution of Damiens the regicide was recorded by Bouton, an officer of the watch. He was quartered, which meant his flesh was torn apart by red-hot pincers, his right hand holding the knife with which he had committed the parricide.
#2 The executioner, Samson, told the court that there was no hope of succeeding. He asked their lordships if they wanted him to...
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#1 This book is about what philosophers are and who cares about them. It's a collection of essays and arguments by The New York Times' philosophy series, The Stone.
#2 There is a lot of philosophy being done. It's being done by people who care about it and are willing to defend it. It's not going anywhere any time soon.
#3 The Stone is a collection of essays by professional...
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#1 The supermom advertisement image is the same woman, but she is presented in different ways in different advertisements. She has that working-mother look as she strides forward, briefcase in one hand, smiling child in the other.
#2 The rise in mothers working outside the home has led to a rise in fathers doing housework and childcare. Men and women still feel strongly...
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Book Preview: #1 For years, the Vietnam War was the alpha and omega of Special Operations Forces, until the strategy failed and Special Forces units were relegated to obscurity for nearly two decades.
#2 The Vietnam War was fought between America and Vietnam, and the American sacrificed an average of 5,800 lives every year for a decade. The Afghans were fierce fighters, but they were...
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Book Preview: #1 The real battle we are facing is with the laws of economics, and it's a war we can't win. We are on the verge of stamping out ourselves.
#2 The laws of economics say that when expenses are higher than revenues for a prolonged period of time, there will be repercussions.
#3 The past predicts the future. America's past financial superpower status has gotten us into...
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