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On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my way.<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. One American family\u2019s mission to rescue civilians in Mosul<\/span><\/a> (Marco Werman, PRI\u2019s The World): I heard this story on NPR this week and was floored. Listen to the thirteen-minute interview (don\u2019t just read the surrounding text \u2011the sizzle is in the audio version). Amazing. For more about David Eubank\u2019s ministry, read <\/span>Jungle Cowboys<\/span><\/a> (Sophia Lee, World Magazine). <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The Legal Meaning of the Cosby Mistrial<\/span><\/a> (Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker): \u201cThe extraordinarily high prosecutorial burden of proof in any criminal trial is intentionally designed to heavily favor defendants, because we long ago embraced as a society Blackstone\u2019s principle. Formulated in the seventeen-sixties by the English jurist William Blackstone, the presumption is that it is better to have ten guilty people go free than that one innocent person suffer. Hard as it is to stomach today, embracing that calculus means that we should even want ten rapists (not to mention terrorists and murderers) to go free in order to protect the one falsely accused.\u201d Gersen, a Harvard Law prof, also has another solid article this week: <\/span>Why Racially Offensive Trademarks Are Now Legally Protected<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Philando Castile Aftermath<\/span><\/a> (Rod Dreher, The American Conservative): \u201c<\/span>Still, I can\u2019t grasp why Castile\u2019s killer got away scot-free, and why there hasn\u2019t been much of an outcry. If a police officer can shoot to death a motorist who was obeying all his commands, and walk away a free man from that shooting, how safe are any of us?\u201d On Slate, Leon Neyfakh writes Philando Castile Should Be the NRA\u2019s Perfect Cause C\u00e9l\u00e8bre. There\u2019s Just One Problem. <\/a><\/span><\/span>See also David French\u2019s <\/span>The Unwritten Law That Helps Bad Cops Go Free<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Camille Paglia: On Trump, Democrats, Transgenderism, and Islamist Terror<\/a> (Jonathan V. Last, The Weekly Standard): \u201cAlthough I describe myself as transgender (I was donning flamboyant male costumes from early childhood on), I am highly skeptical about the current transgender wave, which I think has been produced by far more complicated psychological and sociological factors than current gender discourse allows. Furthermore, I condemn the escalating prescription of puberty blockers (whose long-term effects are unknown) for children. I regard this practice as a criminal violation of human rights.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. Mis-Educating The Young<\/span><\/a> (David Brooks, NY Times): <\/span>\u201cChildhood is more structured than it has ever been. But then the great engine of the meritocracy spits people out into a young adulthood that is less structured than it has ever been.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. The most important truth about hard work, and also reading, that you can find<\/span><\/a> (Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution): <\/span>\u201cGiven two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity \u2013 it is very much like compound interest.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Two minds: The cognitive differences between men and women<\/span><\/a> (Bruce Goldman, Stanford Medicine): \u201cIn a study of 34 rhesus monkeys, for example, males strongly preferred toys with wheels over plush toys, whereas females found plush toys likable. It would be tough to argue that the monkeys\u2019 parents bought them sex-typed toys or that simian society encourages its male offspring to play more with trucks.\u201d Recommended by a student.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Entertaining<\/h3>\n