{"id":4105,"date":"2016-06-24T17:28:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T01:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2016-06-24T17:28:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T01:28:29","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/06\/24\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-55","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issu<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">es, with a pref\u00ader\u00adence for con\u00adtent from aca\u00add\u00ade\u00admics and influ\u00aden\u00adtial voic\u00ades. Be sure to see the ex<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Articles I Found Interesting<\/b><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Britain vot\u00aded to leave the Euro\u00adpean Union. <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was intrigued to learn that<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapidomedia.com\/eu-referendum-religious-issue\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Chris\u00adtians were par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly like\u00adly to vote to leave<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and so I found <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2016\/06\/britain-votes-on-brexit-today-heres-whats-at-stake\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R. R. Reno\u2019s &nbsp;the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal ratio\u00adnale for leav\u00ading<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading (First Things): \u201c\u2026the impulse to opt out of ever-greater union reflects an intu\u00adition, not a ratio\u00adnal plan. The intu\u00adition is that loy\u00adal\u00adty, not pros\u00adper\u00adi\u00adty, is the foun\u00adda\u00adtion of a healthy soci\u00adety. To my mind, it\u2019s a sound intu\u00adition.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relat\u00aded:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/religionnews.com\/2016\/06\/23\/faith-matters-as-uk-votes-on-whether-to-remain-in-european-union\/\">Faith mat\u00adters as UK votes on whether to remain in EU<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Arthur Keefer, Reli\u00adgion News): skim down to the bit that begins \u201cIn June 2013\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2016-06-24\/-citizens-of-the-world-nice-thought-but\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cit\u00adi\u00adzens Of the World? Nice Thought, But\u2026<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Megan McCar\u00addle, Bloomberg): \u201cIn many ways, mem\u00adbers of the glob\u00adal pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal class have start\u00aded to iden\u00adti\u00adfy more with each oth\u00ader than they have with the fel\u00adlow res\u00adi\u00addents of their own coun\u00adtries. Wit\u00adness the emo\u00adtion\u00adal melt\u00addown many Amer\u00adi\u00adcan jour\u00adnal\u00adists have been hav\u00ading over Brex\u00adit.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relat\u00aded To&nbsp;Orlan\u00addo:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2016\/06\/21\/shadi-hamid-orlando-shooting-islam-isis-sexuality-column\/86146470\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omar Mateen\u2019s Mul\u00adti\u00adple Motives<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Kirsten Pow\u00aders, USA Today): \u201cAlmost as quick\u00adly as the mas\u00adsacre of inno\u00adcents in Orlan\u00addo unfold\u00aded, Amer\u00adi\u00adcans retreat\u00aded to their ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal cor\u00adners to inter\u00adpret the moti\u00adva\u00adtions of the mass mur\u00adder\u00ader, Omar Mateen.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-orlando-gay-fbi-20160623-snap-story.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FBI Inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtors say they have found no evi\u00addence that Orlan\u00addo shoot\u00ader had gay lovers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Mol\u00adly Hen\u00adnessy-Fiske, LA Times): huh. This is still a devel\u00adop\u00ading sto\u00adry, do not assume this is the final word.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/online-only\/online-only\/the-gun-control-we-deserve\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gun Con\u00adtrol We Deserve<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Patrick Blanch\u00adfield, n+1): \u201cAs many crit\u00adics have observed, we would be na\u00efve to think that heavy-hand\u00aded gun con\u00adtrol mea\u00adsures would not involve the same dis\u00adpro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00adate racial tar\u00adget\u00ading and police vio\u00adlence we right\u00adly con\u00addemn in the War on Drugs and in every\u00adday encoun\u00adters in places from Bal\u00adti\u00admore to Fer\u00adgu\u00adson to Cleve\u00adland to Oak\u00adland.\u201d A very thought\u00adful piece.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/we-dont-live-in-a-simulation\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elon Musk Is Wrong. We Aren\u2019t Liv\u00ading In A Sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Ric\u00adcar\u00addo Man\u00adzot\u00adti and Andrew Smart, Vice): \u201cThe world we live in is made of real stuff. Sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions are things made of the same stuff. Musk\u2019s argu\u00adment does not show that we are get\u00adting any clos\u00ader to pro\u00adduc\u00ading an alter\u00adna\u00adtive real\u00adi\u00adty. Rather it shows that we are get\u00adting bet\u00adter and bet\u00adter at shap\u00ading the phys\u00adi\u00adcal world.\u201d The authors take unwar\u00adrant\u00aded pot shots at dual\u00adism, but make very good points over\u00adall. Relat\u00aded: SMBC \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?id=4147\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heap Prob\u00adlem<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/06\/the-sotomayor-and-kagan-dissents-in-utah-v-strieff.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sotomay\u00ador and Kagan Dis\u00adsents in Utah vs Stri\u00adeff<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cIf out\u00adstand\u00ading war\u00adrants were few and far between and dis\u00adtrib\u00aduted more or less ran\u00addom\u00adly the case would have been wrong\u00adly decid\u00aded but of lit\u00adtle prac\u00adti\u00adcal impor\u00adtance. Out\u00adstand\u00ading war\u00adrants, how\u00adev\u00ader, are com\u00admon and much more com\u00admon in some com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties than oth\u00aders. As I wrote in 2014, in Fer\u00adgu\u00adson, MO a major\u00adi\u00adty of the pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion had out\u00adstand\u00ading war\u00adrants and not because of high crime:\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/06\/ban-the-box-or-require-the-box.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ban the Box or Require the Box?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cSad\u00adly, a pol\u00adi\u00adcy that was intend\u00aded to raise the employ\u00adment prospects of black men ends up hav\u00ading the biggest pos\u00adi\u00adtive effect on white men with a crim\u00adi\u00adnal record\u2026. Poli\u00adcies like ban the box try to get peo\u00adple to do the \u2018right thing\u2019 by blind\u00ading peo\u00adple to cer\u00adtain types of infor\u00adma\u00adtion. But blind\u00aded peo\u00adple tend to use oth\u00ader cues to achieve their inter\u00adests and when those oth\u00ader cues are less infor\u00adma\u00adtive that often makes things worse.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennyburk.com\/im-a-single-issue-voter-on-multiple-issues-and-so-are-you\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m A Sin\u00adgle-Issue Vot\u00ader On Mul\u00adti\u00adple Issues And So Are You<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Den\u00adny Burk, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cSin\u00adgle-issue vot\u00ading is not the idea that being right on any sin\u00adgle issue qual\u00adi\u00adfies a can\u00addi\u00addate for office. Sin\u00adgle-issue vot\u00ading is the idea that being wrong on a sin\u00adgle issue may dis\u00adqual\u00adi\u00adfy a can\u00addi\u00addate from office.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2016\/07\/my-holy-land-vacation\/?single=1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Holy Land Vaca\u00adtion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Tom Bis\u00adsell, Harpers): \u201cI excuse myself and stroll out\u00adside. I notice that some\u00adone else has also walked out ear\u00adly: Pas\u00adtor Mar\u00adty. He tells me that he was trou\u00adbled by the vio\u00adlence of the Israeli Redneck\u2019s speech. I tell Pas\u00adtor Mar\u00adty that I don\u2019t fault a man who\u2019s fought in four wars for sound\u00ading like a lunatic. What both\u00aders me is the way peo\u00adple were applaud\u00ading him.\u201d High\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><b>A Quote To Ponder<\/b><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStan\u00adford stu\u00addents are good at being good at things. Your Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty can\u2019t just be one more thing you\u2019re good at. To be good miss\u00ades the point. The point is not what you do but what Jesus has done.\u201d Seth Vil\u00adle\u00adgas<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><b>Something Amusing To End On<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/awOc2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary Sein\u00adfeld show ideas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (imgur)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Christianity\/comments\/4plte5\/a_funny_christian_joke\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A fun\u00adny Chris\u00adt\u00adian joke<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (red\u00addit)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues, with a pref\u00ader\u00adence for con\u00adtent from aca\u00add\u00ade\u00admics and influ\u00aden\u00adtial voic\u00ades. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. Arti\u00adcles I Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Britain vot\u00aded to leave the Euro\u00adpean Union. I was intrigued to learn that Chris\u00adtians were par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly like\u00adly to \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/06\/24\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-55\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 55\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[161,148,159,117,116,132],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-global-christianity","tag-israel","tag-justice","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-supreme-court"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-14d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4111,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions\/4111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}