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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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 I believe that the best way to avoid dangerous forms of tribalism is to remain resolutely individualistic. I thought that the age of nationalism would eventually give way to an era of cosmopolitanism, in which we cared about those around us rather than those with whom we shared blood.
#2 Our tendency to form groups is what makes us humans, and it is what has enabled...
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#1 Write because it's something to do, something your parents will let you do because it looks like homework. Write because you need to drown out the sound of your parents' fighting deep into the night. When your favorite professor, senior year, fails your paper on modernism, you promise yourself to write more.
#2 When you are writing your thesis, do not mention that...
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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 I was arrested and taken to an interrogation room, where I was beaten and tortured by soldiers who were taking pleasure in doing so. I was bound, blindfolded, and unarmed, and still they beat me. I felt sad before losing consciousness.
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#1 Queen Elizabeth was born in Regent's Park. The area is now home to luxury stores and fashionable restaurants, embassies, and five-star hotels. It is not easy to find Cumberland Terrace, the house where Daphne du Maurier was born in 1907.
#2 The little girl, Daphne, has to pass under the arch and climb the steps to the house. She likes to look at the maids' uniforms,...
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Get the Summary of Fareed Zakaria's Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World in 20 minutes.
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Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social,...
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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 rise of populism and xenophobia is a danger to democracy, and it is up to the mainstream parties to understand and address these grievances.
#2 The first diagnosis is that populist anger is a backlash against growing racial, ethnic, and gender diversity. The second is that it is a result of the rapid pace of change in an age of globalization and technology. But...
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#1 In 1948, the communists laid siege to Changchun, a city in the middle of the Manchurian plain north of the Great Wall of China. They starved the city into surrender, and turned it into a city of death.
#2 The city of Changchun, China, was besieged by communist troops in 1948. The anti-aircraft artillery of the communists forced the nationalists to fly at an altitude...
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#1 Your career is a major part of your life. You spend a lot of time at your workplace, and it can seem like a second home. You care about your career, and it provides you with a sense of accomplishment.
#2 When looking for a new job, it can become a full-time job in and of itself. You must prioritize the few tasks that will have the greatest impact. Use the 80/20 rule...