{"id":4153,"date":"2016-07-29T22:36:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T06:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2016-07-29T22:36:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T06:36:16","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/07\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-60","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4136\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/07\/15\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-58\/20160715_161627\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4136\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4136\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160715_161627-300x101.jpg?resize=300%2C101\" alt=\"1 Chronicles 12:32 - they &quot;understood the times&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160715_161627.jpg?resize=300%2C101&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160715_161627.jpg?resize=768%2C259&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160715_161627.jpg?resize=1024%2C345&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160715_161627.jpg?resize=1200%2C404&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160715_161627.jpg?w=1692&amp;ssl=1 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1 Chron\u00adi\u00adcles 12:32 \u2014 they \u201cunder\u00adstood the times\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<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.<\/p>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To quote from the begin\u00adning of both posts: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">over the past 30 years law\u00admak\u00aders in Con\u00adgress tend to vote in line with their party\u2019s plat\u00adform: 89 per\u00adcent of the time for Repub\u00adli\u00adcans and 79 per\u00adcent of the time for Democ\u00adrats.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to read the full par\u00adty plat\u00adform state\u00adments they are linked in the arti\u00adcles and weigh in at a tad over 50 pages each \u2014 these are much short\u00ader sum\u00admaries. They are pre\u00adsent\u00aded in the order of their con\u00adven\u00adtions.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/what-you-should-know-about-the-republican-party-platform\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What You Should Know About the Repub\u00adli\u00adcan Par\u00adty Plat\u00adform<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Joe Carter, Gospel Coali\u00adtion)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/what-you-should-know-about-the-democratic-party-platform\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What You Should Know About The Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic Par\u00adty Plat\u00adform<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Joe Carter, Gospel Coali\u00adtion)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thegospelcoalition.org\/evangelical-history\/2016\/07\/26\/is-segregation-scriptural-a-radio-address-from-bob-jones-on-easter-of-1960\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is Seg\u00adre\u00adga\u00adtion Scrip\u00adtur\u00adal? A Radio Address From Bob Jones On East\u00ader Of 1960<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Justin Tay\u00adlor, Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal His\u00adto\u00adry): this is fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading to me as a preach\u00ader. Notice that where Jones went off the rails was when he relied upon his inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion of a sin\u00adgle verse as the foun\u00adda\u00adtion of his the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy. Beware of sin\u00adgle-verse the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy! Also, who does\u00adn\u2019t talk about the res\u00adur\u00adrec\u00adtion on East\u00ader? What was his Christ\u00admas ser\u00admon about?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-False-Promise-of-a\/237066\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The False Promise Of A \u2018Con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion\u2019 About Race<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (John McWhort\u00ader, Chron\u00adi\u00adcle of High\u00ader Edu\u00adca\u00adtion): \u201cThe Mar\u00adt\u00adian anthro\u00adpol\u00ado\u00adgist \u2014 or even a sharp 10-year-old \u2014 would be baf\u00adfled by so many bril\u00adliant people\u2019s end\u00adless\u00adly claim\u00ading in the very wake of the lat\u00adest racial inci\u00addent, dis\u00adcussed in the news cycle for weeks, that Amer\u00adi\u00adca \u2018doesn\u2019t want to talk about race.\u2019\u201d The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Colum\u00adbia who earned his Ph.D. in lin\u00adguis\u00adtics at Stan\u00adford.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/in-the-culture-war-between-students-and-professors-the-1781580133\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In The Cul\u00adture War Between Stu\u00addents and Pro\u00adfes\u00adsors, The Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty Is The Real Ene\u00admy<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Don\u00adna Zucker\u00adberg, Jezebel): \u201cHeller is cor\u00adrect on one cru\u00adcial point that I don\u2019t think read\u00aders have been tak\u00ading seri\u00adous\u00adly enough. Col\u00adleges like Ober\u00adlin do encour\u00adage indi\u00advid\u00adual expres\u00adsion while simul\u00adta\u00adne\u00adous\u00adly groom\u00ading all of their stu\u00addents to belong to a sin\u00adgle socioe\u00adco\u00adnom\u00adic class\u2014the intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal and pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal elite. In oth\u00ader words, study\u00ading Antigone doesn\u2019t just teach you about Greek dra\u00adma and female polit\u00adi\u00adcal resis\u00adtance. It also turns you into the kind of per\u00adson who has read Antigone.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/yale-law-school-inequality_us_5772a27ee4b0dbb1bbbc11b9\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As A Poor Kid From The Rust Belt, Yale Law Brought Me Face-To-Face With Rad\u00adi\u00adcal Inequal\u00adi\u00adty<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (J.D. Vance, Huff\u00adin\u00adg\u00adton Post): \u201cVery few peo\u00adple at Yale Law School are like me. They may look like me, but for all of the Ivy League\u2019s obses\u00adsion with diver\u00adsi\u00adty, vir\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly everyone\u2014black, white, Jew\u00adish, Mus\u00adlim, what\u00adev\u00ader\u2014 comes from intact fam\u00adi\u00adlies who nev\u00ader wor\u00adry about mon\u00adey.\u201d I shared&nbsp;a link to an inter\u00adview with J.D. Vance last week.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Amusing<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephanpastis\/status\/758471559950368768\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">com\u00adic news\u00adpa\u00adpers refused to run<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>What to order for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/last-meal\">your last meal<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> 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).<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a non-Stan\u00adford friend who might be inter\u00adest\u00aded in these emails, they can sign up at <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/subscribe\">http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/subscribe<\/a>, and if you want to view the archives they are at <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links<\/a>.<\/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. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading To quote from the begin\u00adning of both posts: \u201cover the past 30 years law\u00admak\u00aders in Con\u00adgress tend to \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/07\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-60\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 60\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":"A summary of the party platforms, some stuff about race, and some stuff about college life.","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":[131,117,116],"class_list":["post-4153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-politics","tag-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-14Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","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=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}