Cyrano de Bergerac – a swashbuckling hero with the intellect to match – is in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris.
The problem is that Cyrano has an inferiority complex over his gigantic nose – which Cyrano believes serves as an insurmountable obstacle for Roxanne ever falling for him.
The handsome but slow-witted Christian – also in love with Roxanne – suffers the opposite problem: he is intellectually incompatible with Roxanne.
As a solution, Cyrano offers to speak for and write love letters for him: Christian will be the physical form Roxanne will be attracted to, but Cyrano will be the soul she falls in love with. What will Roxanne do when she finds out the truth?
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In The DIM Hypothesis, Leonard Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole: Disintegration, Integration, and Misintegration. He then surveys the history of Western Civilization and shows how the dominant method of thinking of a given historical period influenced the cultural products of that time in the fields of literature, physics, education, and politics, with the goal of determining the likely course of Western Civilization in the future.
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“We’ve all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we’re told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage.” In Equal is Unfair, Don Watkins and Yaron Brook show that the real threat to the American Dream is the war on success and that the proposed solutions by egalitarians will make things worse for everyone in the long run.
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Freedom of speech is indispensable to a free and civilized society, yet this precious right is increasingly under attack today. This book provides the intellectual ammunition to defend that right.
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Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations resulting in disparities. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are victims of genetics or victims of discrimination. Thomas Sowell’s Discrimination and Disparities challenges the idea that different economic outcomes can be explained by any one factor, be it discrimination, exploitation, or genetics.
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