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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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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 Sidney Gottlieb was a psychic voyager who spent his career deep inside Washington's secret world. He retired in 1973 and spent the second half of the twentieth century traveling the world and helping the needy. But in 1975, he was summoned home and had to defend himself against accusations of mind control.
#2 After his death, Gottlieb faded into obscurity. He was...
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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 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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Get the Summary of Noam Chomsky, Anthony Arnove's The Essential Chomsky in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Essential Chomsky" is a comprehensive collection of Noam Chomsky's thoughts and critiques on a variety of subjects, including language, politics, and human nature. Chomsky challenges B. F. Skinner's behaviorist approach to language, arguing that it oversimplifies the complexities of verbal communication...
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#1 Totalitarianism is a concept developed in the West after World War II to describe the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, which were tyrannies of a very different nature from the traditional authoritarianisms of the nineteenth century.
#2 The idea that the Soviet Union was trying to create a new type of man, who was not only free of his freedom, but also afraid of it,...
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#1 Jay Powell, who would later become the chairman of the Federal Reserve, was born in Washington D. C. in 1945. His family were among the first Catholics to join the prestigious Chevy Chase Club, where his father was president. He learned from his father how to measure his words carefully.
#2 Brady, who had been Reagan's secretary of the Treasury, hired Powell to be...
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#1 I will always remember the day Emmett was born. It was July 25, 1941. A Friday. But I'm getting a little ahead of my story, because this is not where it really begins. My mother had brought me to the hospital on Wednesday.
#2 The birth was a breech birth, meaning the baby was coming butt first. The agony was so severe, I thought there could be no greater pain than...
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#1 The most obvious impediment to my taking the path less traveled was money. I didn't have any to speak of, but I was equipped with the reasoning ability of an 18-year-old, which suggested that if I could get to London and buy a bicycle, I would eventually arrive in Japan.
#2 The instructions of the Story aren't reasonable. They aren't accountable. They are largely...
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#1 The Scranton Lace Company was an abandoned lace factory in Pennsylvania. It was once one of the biggest producers of Nottingham lace in the world, but it closed in 2002. The company provided its employees with dignity, purpose, pride, and a sense of place, but it was all lost when it closed.
#2 Scranton, Pennsylvania, was a city that was facing bankruptcy. The mayor,...
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#1 Play is not just about children acting like adults. In many forager societies, adults leave children to play by themselves, and they are only vaguely aware of what their children are up to. Play arises spontaneously, without any guidance.
#2 Children's play is always extremely similar, regardless of gender, age, or culture. It involves innately making a miniature...
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#1 The scale of mass incarceration, as well as criminal justice reform, has been a topic of debate in the United States for decades.
#2 In the 2010s, mass incarceration and police brutality became hot-button topics in the United States.
#3 The Black Lives Matter movement gave the push for criminal justice reform a huge boost in the 2010s, as it became clear that police...
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#1 Brexit makes sense for a nation that feels sorry for itself. The more highly we think of ourselves, the sorrier we feel for ourselves when we do not get what we know we deserve. Self-pity is the only emotion that can bring these two things together.
#2 The British were entitled to a national grudge after they had been on the winning side in the two great...
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#1 The first sound in the morning was the clumping of the mill-girls' clogs down the cobbled street. There were generally four of us in the bedroom, and a beastly place it was. The room had been turned into a bedroom by thrusting four squalid beds among this other wreckage.
#2 I lived in a house with a large open range that burned night and day. The kitchen was always...
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#1 The echidnas are smart enough, and their prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain used for complex reasoning and decision making, is the biggest in relation to body size of any mammal. They have never used their intelligence to destroy anything yet, but they could if they get tired of the incompetence of domesticated humans.
#2 The war between good and evil is actually...
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#1 I was a rookie police officer in Colorado Springs in 1973 when I was dispatched to the White Spot restaurant on a call of a cop being attacked. I had to help save the cop's life, and my reputation as a head-banging street cop was made.
#2 I was once dispatched to a bar to break up a fight and found a giant Native American fighter throwing people around like rag dolls....
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