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#1 I was the Iowa spokesperson for John McCain's presidential campaign in 2007. The comprehensive immigration reform bill known colloquially by the political class as McCain-Kennedy and by Republican voters as amnesty for illegals was about to be reintroduced in the U. S. Senate.
#2 I was extremely nervous and excited to be at the rally. I was hoping McCain would shine...
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#1 Impressment was a hybrid of the modern military draft and state-sponsored kidnapping. It was used to force sailors into the Royal Navy, and it was common for cottagers to be impressed.
#2 The Vagabond Act of 1597 attempted to combat the homeless problem in England by making it punishable by public whipping if you were caught being homeless. The act also empowered...
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Get the Summary of Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong,...
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#1 I tried to build an autonomous vehicle several years ago. It didn't drive itself, but it did take me to some interesting places. The idea of a self-driving car is fascinating to me not for its capabilities, but for its place in our imagination.
#2 I wanted to understand AI better, so I trained the car to drive at random, taking almost every side road and turning...
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#1 On Yom Kippur, the 10th of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, Egypt attacked Israel. Syria followed suit a few minutes later. Israel was caught off guard as Egypt began its assault, crossing the Suez Canal, which had separated Egyptian and Israeli forces since 1967.
#2 On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Israeli reservists and volunteers commandeer cars...
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Le partage des espaces publics des grandes villes industrialisées avec les personnes en situation d'itinérance et de marginalité représente plusieurs défis autant pour les acteurs de la vie quotidienne que pour les intervenants sociaux et les responsables politiques. Ces défis sont en phase avec les enjeux contemporains associés non seulement aux transformations des normes de socialisation à la vie collective, mais aussi à celles du développement...
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Get the Summary of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than, when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified...
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Get the Summary of Walter Isaacson's Benjamin Franklin in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us -an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings.
In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from...
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Get the Summary of Clayborne Carson's The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Relevant and insightful, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. offers King's seldom disclosed views on some of the world's greatest and most controversial figures: John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Lyndon B. Johnson, Mahatma Gandhi, and Richard Nixon. It also paints a...
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#1 The political impulse, similarly, must proceed from a universal urge to order social relations. Emotions may elevate practical partisan differences to the realm of the spiritual or doctrinal, which is to say, the irreconcilable.
#2 We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed...
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#1 Girl is a term of endearment between Black women that has always been present in my life. It is a greeting, exclamation, and rallying cry at once.
#2 I didn't recognize myself in the pantomimes of Black women, and I didn't want to play into the outdated stereotypes. I built up a network of Black friends in London, and the hashtag #BlackGirlMagic began to spread.
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#1 After the Second World War, Angus Sinclair was born in 1945. His family lived in Glasgow, and his father had been getting more and more tired over the course of the last few months, until he died of chronic leukemia two years later. Angus was bullied in school for being the smallest and slowest kid in class.
#2 When he became a teenager, he began to go through the...
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We all say that we care about children. We all know that millions of children around the world, including in the United States, are suffering physically, materially, and emotionally and are unable to reach their full potential. Moreover, their material deprivation and physical ills often prevent them from responding to the gospel. Most of us conclude that we cannot do anything significant to help the impoverished children living in our own backyards...
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#1 The young man in the new suit was trying to look purposeful, but his composure was a bluff. He needed to pick up a ticket and get to the small airport outside town, but he knew he might not make it. The war was barely six weeks old, but the distance between alive and dead had already become negligible.
#2 The National Council is doing everything it can to help the...
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#1 I was a first-year medical student at Duke. I had spent my first few weeks there expanding my insecurities about my classmates, but I had finally done well on my midterm exams. I was starting to feel comfortable.
#2 At Duke, I was often mistaken for a potential criminal, hired help when I was a paying customer, and most favorably, a budding professional basketball...
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#1 When Matthew Shepard was tortured and left to die on the high plains of Wyoming, his murder was followed by outpourings of anger and grief from editorial pages and political pulpits across the country.
#2 The Matthew Shepard killing was used by the left to rally behind society's victims, and the absence of conservatives and libertarians in the Capitol protesters...
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Get the Summary of John McWhorter's The Story of Human Language in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But, it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages...
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#1 I was drawn to the psychiatric units at Spring Grove State Hospital, because I realized that the majority of the women there had been victims of sexual assault. They had been attacked, and then forced to manage the trauma on their own, silently, or face the likely consequence of being blamed for instigating their own assault.
#2 I began interviewing patients...
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Les entretiens avec Noam Chomsky rassemblés dans ce recueil ont été menés par C.J. Polychroniou entre 2018 et avril 2022. Le grand intellectuel et militant y parle de la fin et des séquelles du trumpisme, du dangereux centrisme de Biden et de l'espoir que représentent Sanders et Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aux États-Unis. Il commente aussi la gestion de la pandémie de coronavirus, la crise climatique et les risques toujours plus élevés d'un...
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#1 The story of the villager who kidnapped and locked up vandals in his basement to prevent crime is a short political story that illustrates the difference between a government and a non-government person. Most people support the government's imprisonment of criminals, feel obligated to pay their taxes, and consider punishment of tax evaders both desirable and within...