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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 The legal system is the only aspect of society that requires State provision. However, the elimination of the State will not lead to lawless chaos. Voluntary institutions will emerge to effectively and peacefully resolve the disputes that arise in everyday life.
#2 A stateless society would not have a single set of laws binding everyone. All actions would be subject...
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#1 The Beauty AI initiative involved a few straightforward steps: contestants download the Beauty AI app, make a selfie, and submit it to the robot jury. The robot jury chooses a king and a queen. News spreads around the world.
#2 Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning that uses depth to describe the layers of abstraction a computer program makes as it...
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#1 Empathy is the act of coming to experience the world as someone else does. It is a common definition, but it is also used for everything from yawning contagion in dogs to patient-centered attitudes in human medicine.
#2 Empathy is the capacity to understand what another person is going through, and it can be developed and extended through the imagination. It can...
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#1 The decision to declare ISIS defeated was a watershed moment for another reason. It signaled the downfall of key officials who thought they could bring order to the administration's chaos. Within days, the president decided in a temper tantrum to move Secretary Mattis's departure date forward. This once again threw the Department of Defense into turmoil.
#2 The 2017...
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#1 Education pays in the labor market, and it is not an exception. High school graduates earn more than dropouts, college graduates earn more than high school graduates, and holders of advanced degrees do even better.
#2 The disconnect between the curriculum and the job market has a simple explanation: educators teach what they know, and most have little firsthand knowledge...
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#1 This book was written in the matrix of many sick and disabled femme of color care webs, in unceded and occupied Tkaronto/Dish With One Spoon territories, Ohlone territories, and my current home in South Seattle on Duwamish territories governed by the Treaty of Point Elliot.
#2 I want to thank everyone who has ever hired me to do workshops or lectures, and those who...
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#1 The words cheap government do not actually mean cheap government, but rather cheap spending and sound currency. These men and their associates, though they undoubtedly knew less than everything, were not so ignorant to have believed literally what the words seem to indicate.
#2 In the third book, Dante considers the issue of the relations between Church and...
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#1 The Declaration of Independence is famous for its opening lines about self-evident truths, about all men being created equal, and about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But few could tell you what comes next. It is a list of repeated injuries and usurpations caused by King George III.
#2 The Constitution's framers knew that without impeachment, a president...
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#1 Cicero's philosophy was that through aristocratic farming and moral behavior, humans could tap into nature as an infinite and self-perpetuating source of wealth.
#2 Cicero was the first to argue that morals and feelings sparked the market to work autonomously to create an economic equilibrium. He saw friendship between landowners as creating trust, which in turn...
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#1 In 1990, John Feffer, a 26-year-old American, spent several months traveling Eastern Europe in hopes of understanding its post-communist future. He was fascinated and puzzled by the contradictions he encountered. The capitalist future had arrived, but its benefits and burdens were unevenly distributed.
#2 After 1989, the global spread of democracy was envisioned...
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#1 The American voting system is made up of both national and state elections, and there is a lot of variability between them. The voter registration process is thought to disproportionately affect minority, disadvantaged, and younger voters.
#2 Every election is influenced by the 2000 presidential race between Republican Texas governor George W. Bush and Democratic...
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#1 Manuel and his wife were poor, and when they first looked for an apartment in Paris, they found only two dark rooms below the street level, giving onto a small stifling courtyard. Manuel was sad. He was an artist, and there was no light in which he could work. His wife did not care. She would go off each day to do her trapeze act for the circus.
#2 Manuel was well...
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#1 Nigel Wilkins was a banker who had never been a banker. He was too shy to shoot looks of granite, but behind it lay not only the stifled arrogance of the cleverest man, but also an unbearable awkwardness. He loved economics, the art of telling money's stories.
#2 Nigel was a free man because he had made plenty of money and had little to spend it on. He preferred...
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#1 The epic Mahābhārata presents each of the two arguments for doing your duty with much care and sympathy. However, the tragic desolation that the post-combat and post-carnage land seems to face towards the end of the book can even be seen as a vindication of Arjuna's profound doubts.
#2 The Gita's univocal message requires supplementation by the broader argumentative...
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#1 The paradox of sovereignty is that the sovereign is, at the same time, outside and inside the juridical order. If the sovereign is the one who grants the power to proclaim a state of exception, then he stands outside the juridical order, but he belongs to it because it is up to him to decide if the constitution is to be suspended in its entirety.
#2 The exception...