{"id":4421,"date":"2017-03-10T17:45:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T01:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2017-03-10T17:45:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T01:45:53","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/03\/10\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-91","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 91"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad 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. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. The Cri\u00adsis of Lib\u00ader\u00adty In The West<\/span><\/a> (Ryan Ander\u00adson, Her\u00aditage Foun\u00adda\u00adtion): \u201cFree\u00addom today is under\u00adstood as a mat\u00adter of indifference\u2014a free\u00addom from con\u00adstraint. But free\u00addom right\u00adly under\u00adstood is a free\u00addom for\u2014a free\u00addom for excel\u00adlence.\u201d This. Read this. <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Gen\u00adder Rever\u00adsal Teach\u00ades Uncom\u00adfort\u00adable Lessons<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cHow would the Trump-Clin\u00adton debates have been per\u00adceived if the gen\u00adders had been reversed? Two pro\u00adfes\u00adsors worked with trained actors to dupli\u00adcate not just the words but also the man\u00adner\u00adisms of Trump and Clinton\u2013only with a female actor play\u00ading Trump, now called Bren\u00adda King, and a male actor play\u00ading Clin\u00adton, now called Jonathan Gor\u00addon.\u201d The pro\u00adfes\u00adsors found the oppo\u00adsite of what they expect\u00aded. There is a video clip so you can judge for your\u00adself. A lit\u00adtle mind-blow\u00ading.<\/li>\n
  3. Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Car\u00adnage<\/span><\/a> (Christo\u00adpher Cald\u00adwell, First Things): \u201cCall\u00ading addic\u00adtion a dis\u00adease use\u00adful\u00adly describes cer\u00adtain mea\u00adsur\u00adable aspects of the problem\u2014particularly tol\u00ader\u00adance and with\u00addraw\u00adal. It fails to cap\u00adture what is spe\u00adcial and dan\u00adger\u00adous about the way drugs bind with people\u2019s minds. Almost every known dis\u00adease is some\u00adthing peo\u00adple wish to be rid of. Addic\u00adtion is dif\u00adfer\u00adent. Addicts resist known cures\u2014even to the point of death.\u201d A pow\u00ader\u00adful arti\u00adcle. <\/span><\/li>\n
  4. There\u2019s Enough Time To Change Every\u00adthing<\/a> (Conor Frieder\u00ads\u00addorf, The Atlantic): \u201cIf I were loose\u00adly gath\u00ader\u00ading top\u00adics of study into cat\u00ade\u00adgories, I might call them arts, reli\u00adgion, schol\u00adar\u00adship, and sci\u00adence. As impor\u00adtant as schol\u00adar\u00adship and sci\u00adence are, arts and reli\u00adgion are more impor\u00adtant\u201d A wide-rang\u00ading and fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading inter\u00adview with Yale pro\u00adfes\u00adsor David Gel\u00adern\u00adter. This one is long.<\/li>\n
  5. Faith Is Chang\u00ading The Way Peo\u00adple Think About Music<\/span><\/a> (Marc Barnes, Rel\u00ade\u00advant): \u201cThe cre\u00adative arts have a long his\u00adto\u00adry of tak\u00ading to what is taboo in the pub\u00adlic square. It is no sur\u00adprise that they are tak\u00ading reli\u00adgion, the ugly duck\u00adling of mod\u00adern sec\u00adu\u00adlar life, under their wing.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. North Korea Is Prac\u00adtic\u00ading For Nuclear War<\/a> (Jef\u00adfrey Lewis, For\u00adeign Pol\u00adi\u00adcy): \u201cWhat\u00adev\u00ader restraint Kim or Trump might show \u2014 and let\u2019s be hon\u00adest, our expec\u00adta\u00adtions here are not high \u2014 each will face enor\u00admous pres\u00adsure to start the attack lest his oppo\u00adnent beat him to the punch.\u201d Ouch.<\/li>\n
  7. 10 Ques\u00adtions for Sha\u00addi Hamid<\/span><\/a> (Raz\u00adib Khan, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cIt\u2019s not so much that [devout Mus\u00adlims] want to die; it\u2019s more that they are ready to die, and it doesn\u2019t fright\u00aden them as much as it might fright\u00aden some\u00adone else, because they believe there\u2019s a pret\u00adty good chance that they\u2019ll be grant\u00aded par\u00adadise espe\u00adcial\u00adly if they hap\u00adpen to killed while they\u2019re in the mid\u00addle of an act that they con\u00adsid\u00ader to be in the ser\u00advice of God and his mes\u00adsage.\u201d The inter\u00adview\u00ader is a doc\u00adtor\u00adal can\u00addi\u00addate in genet\u00adics at UC Davis and the inter\u00advie\u00adwee is a senior fel\u00adlow at the Brook\u00adings Insti\u00adtu\u00adtion. Also worth read\u00ading is Rod Dreher\u2019s reac\u00adtion piece <\/span>Islam: The Last Badass Reli\u00adgion<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Amusing<\/h3>\n