{"id":4004,"date":"2016-04-22T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T23:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2016-06-10T13:39:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T21:39:17","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/04\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-46","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 46"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources I have found help\u00adful recent\u00adly in think\u00ading about broad\u00ader cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Dan\u00adger Of A Sin\u00adgle Sto\u00adry<\/span><\/a> (David Brooks, NY Times): \u201csto\u00adries have become iden\u00adti\u00adty mark\u00aders. This is a phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnon bor\u00adrowed from cam\u00adpus polit\u00adi\u00adcal cor\u00adrect\u00adness. In order to express your sol\u00adi\u00addar\u00adi\u00adty with the vir\u00adtu\u00adous team, you have to embrace the social\u00adly approved sto\u00adry. If you dif\u00adfer from the offi\u00adcial sto\u00adry.\u2026 it is a sign that you have false alle\u00adgiances. You must embrace the approved sto\u00adry to show you are not com\u00adplic\u00adit in a sys\u00adtem of oppres\u00adsion.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. How To Fix Pol\u00adi\u00adtics<\/a> (David Brooks, NY Times): \u201cPeo\u00adple put pol\u00adi\u00adtics at the cen\u00adter of their psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal, emo\u00adtion\u00adal and even spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal life. This is ask\u00ading too much of pol\u00adi\u00adtics. Once pol\u00adi\u00adtics becomes your eth\u00adnic and moral iden\u00adti\u00adty, it becomes impos\u00adsi\u00adble to com\u00adpro\u00admise, because com\u00adpro\u00admise becomes dis\u00adhon\u00ador.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Ohio State Turns The Con\u00adcept of \u2018Safe Space\u2019 Against Stu\u00addent Pro\u00adtest\u00aders<\/span><\/a> (Conor Frieder\u00ads\u00addorf, The Atlantic): \u201cspeech codes imple\u00adment\u00aded in the late 1980s and ear\u00adly 90s with the inten\u00adtion of pro\u00adtect\u00ading black stu\u00addents were ulti\u00admate\u00adly used to charge and pun\u00adish more black stu\u00addents than white stu\u00addents. Inso\u00adfar as cam\u00adpus con\u00adcepts like safe spaces, microag\u00adgres\u00adsions, and claims of trau\u00adma over minor alter\u00adca\u00adtions spread from activist cul\u00adture to cam\u00adpus cul\u00adture, the pow\u00ader\u00adful will inevitably make use of them.\u201d See his fol\u00adlow-up <\/span>The Tools Of Cam\u00adpus Activists Are Being Turned Against Them<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Fired For Preach\u00ading: Geor\u00adgia Dumps Doc\u00adtor Over Church Ser\u00admons<\/span><\/a> (Todd Starnes, Fox News): \u201cFirst, they silenced the sheep \u2013 and now they are try\u00ading to silence the shep\u00adherds.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. More From Michael McConnell On The Sup\u00adple\u00admen\u00adtary Brief\u00ading In \u2018Zubik vs Bur\u00adwell\u2019<\/span><\/a> (Eugene Volokh, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): the title is a lit\u00adtle snore induc\u00ading, but the con\u00adtent is quite stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. It\u2019s a Stan\u00adford law professor\u2019s thoughts on the nuns suing the gov\u00adern\u00adment.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Brazil\u2019s Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals Flex Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Pow\u00ader In Impeach\u00adment Dra\u00adma<\/span><\/a> (Cather\u00adine Osborne, NPR): I rec\u00adom\u00admend lis\u00adten\u00ading to the audio rather than mere\u00adly read\u00ading the tran\u00adscript.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Har\u00adri\u00adet Tub\u00adman: The \u201cMoses\u201d Of Her Peo\u00adple<\/span><\/a> (Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cIf a slave want\u00aded to quit in the midst of a res\u00adcue, Tub\u00adman would hold a revolver to his head and ask him to recon\u00adsid\u00ader.\u201d Note that this arti\u00adcle is not a response to Tub\u00adman appear\u00ading on the $20 bill, this is from an old series called 131 Chris\u00adtians Every\u00adone Should Know (FYI \u2014 the relat\u00aded arti\u00adcles are quite inter\u00adest\u00ading). For some\u00adthing more recent, check out the GetRe\u00adli\u00adgion post Hon\u00ador\u00ading Har\u00adri\u00adet Tub\u00adman, a Methodist, Repub\u00adli\u00adcan, Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Woman For the Ages<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. The Absurd Pri\u00adma\u00adcy of the Car in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Life<\/a> (Edward Humes, The Atlantic): \u201cIf U.S. roads were a war zone, they would be the most dan\u00adger\u00adous bat\u00adtle\u00adfield the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan mil\u00adi\u00adtary has ever encoun\u00adtered.\u201d<\/li>\n
  9. Trust Us: Politi\u00adcians Keep Most Of Their Promis\u00ades<\/a> (Tim\u00ado\u00adthy Hill, FiveThir\u00adtyEight): Inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle, although I note that \u201cmost\u201d is a very key word. A friend who keeps \u00e2\u2026\u201d of the promis\u00ades they make to you keeps most of their promis\u00ades \u2014 but would you call that friend trust\u00adwor\u00adthy?<\/li>\n
  10. Amus\u00ading:<\/span>\n