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#1 The New York Times made the worst prediction in the history of modern journalism when they reported that Hitler would retire to private life and return to Austria. He went on to construct one of the darkest regimes, and he was the last person a reader of the Times should think was no longer to be feared.
#2 On August 31, 1939, Hitler launched one of the most...
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#1 In Russia, baptism is traditionally done at the Church of St. John the Warrior in Central Moscow. Masha was baptized there on the seventieth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Her grandmother, a rocket scientist, had spent her life working on material things that were the opposite of religion.
#2 The Soviet Union had defeated organized religion,...
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#1 I am six when I see sex for the first time. I am taken to my father's house by his housekeeper, Carmela, who drives me to the mansion. I ask her to take me home, but she says that it would not be right.
#2 My father, a bookworm from Ohio, graduated at the top of his Dartmouth class Phi Beta Kappa, and from Harvard Medical School. He then moved to Los Angeles and...
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Book Preview: #1 The real battle we are facing is with the laws of economics, and it's a war we can't win. We are on the verge of stamping out ourselves.
#2 The laws of economics say that when expenses are higher than revenues for a prolonged period of time, there will be repercussions.
#3 The past predicts the future. America's past financial superpower status has gotten us into...
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#1 When I came home from Rome, I wanted to be managed by millionaire William Reynolds. In fact, when I returned, I found that Reynolds had been praised across America for what he was about to do for me.
#2 I had been sent to meet with Billy Reynolds, a millionaire fighter who wanted to become my manager. I had never been able to afford the proper boxing equipment or...
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#1 As schools and businesses shut down, the Fed went into overdrive. Alongside COVID-19, another disease was spreading, and its progress could not be halted using N-95s or social distancing. This disease moved faster than any virus, and threatened economic harm as great as the pandemic itself.
#2 A panic is when a shock causes an initial round of selling, which in turn...
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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 Despite being a fiscal conservative, Jeb's record in the governor's mansion in Florida showed that he was authoritarian, secretive, and imperial. He never opposed expansion of the size and scope of government.
#2 Jeb Bush made his money in consulting and big dollar honorariums for speeches. He says he is going to Washington to fight the pampered elites.
#3 Despite...
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Get the Summary of Candace Owen's Blackout in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Candace Owens is an American political activist, commentator and conservative writer. In her book Blackout, she tries to persuade African Americans to dig deep and realize how the Democratic Party has been exploiting them for votes since they got voting rights. Candace Owens makes a case for African Americans...
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Book Preview: #1 When we are confronted with evidence of inequality that challenges our identities, we often respond with resistance. We want to deflect this unsettling information and protect a worldview that is more familiar and comfortable.
#2 The courses you take to prepare you for social justice work should be challenging. They should contain difficult theoretical concepts and...
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#1 The author Charlie Kaufman wrote a novel called Antkind, which was reviewed in the British newspaper the Observer in August 2020. The reviewer, Holly Williams, criticized the book because the narrator operated from a white-male-cis-het perspective. But the narrator was Jewish, and there was no mention of his Jewishness or the issue of Jewishness in the book.
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#1 The Romans were able to buy the Sibyl's books, which contained prophecies of great importance to the Romans. The Romans soon realized that only one woman could have written them—the Sibyl.
#2 The Roman Republic was very sensitive about the information in the books left behind by the exiled Tarquin. Only in the most dire situations was it allowed to consult the books,...
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#1 Theories explaining why the West has been so successful long date back to the eighteenth century, when Europeans began to take over the world. These theories vary from saying that the West is the heir to a distinct and superior cultural tradition, to arguing that the West is biologically superior to other humans.
#2 The real question at issue is about social development,...
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#1 Summit is the top of a mountain. It has also been used to denote a supreme achievement, but it was not until 1953 that it entered the vocabulary of diplomacy. The word gained popularity during the Cold War, as meetings between Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy, and then Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon, captured the attention of the world media.
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#1 The world is sick, says the poet Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 3-> The world is sick, according to the poet Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is sustained by the paradoxes of surplus-enjoyment, which sustain the topsy-turviness of our time.
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#1 Every generation has its utopians, but none ever seems to work out. The main reason utopian projects fail is that, no matter how pure their intentions, people will always be more interested in power than they are in other people's happiness. In a society in which the government has the power of life and death over almost all individuals, it's not hard to imagine that...
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#1 In Hong Kong, the beauty industry outspends every other business sector on advertising. The reporting and photojournalism that appears alongside those ads has a different obsession: telling tales of young women celebrities.
#2 The rise in eating disorders in Asia is due to a complex combination of cultural and cross-cultural influences. The West may be culpable for...
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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 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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