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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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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 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 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 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 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 tools of history analysis are partly inherited and partly of their own making: models of economic growth, quantitative analysis of market movements, accounts of demographic expansion and contraction, the study of climate and its long-term changes, and so on.
#2 The history of thought, the history of science, the history of philosophy, and the history of literature...
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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 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 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 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 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 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 tale of Angela and her sisters is a prime example of the impact of childhood on family life. Angela was born after her parents had been married for two years. Her sister Gwen was two years old when the marriage ended, and Angela saw little of her father after that. When she was five years old, her mother married a colleague at work, and by the time Angela was...
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#1 The power that you are born with is a part of God, the spiritual aspect of your being, which is perfect. This power is a creator of energy that is either potential or kinetic. Potential energy is passive energy, energy that is stored, waiting to be used. Kinetic energy is active energy, energy that is being used.
#2 You are a complete person with nothing missing....
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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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