{"id":4510,"date":"2017-06-23T15:39:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T23:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2017-06-23T15:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T23:39:25","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/06\/23\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-106","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 106"},"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. One Amer\u00adi\u00adcan fam\u00adi\u00adly\u2019s mis\u00adsion to res\u00adcue civil\u00adians in Mosul<\/span><\/a> (Mar\u00adco Wer\u00adman, PRI\u2019s The World): I heard this sto\u00adry on NPR this week and was floored. Lis\u00adten to the thir\u00adteen-minute inter\u00adview (don\u2019t just read the sur\u00adround\u00ading text \u2011the siz\u00adzle is in the audio ver\u00adsion). Amaz\u00ading. For more about David Eubank\u2019s min\u00adistry, read <\/span>Jun\u00adgle Cow\u00adboys<\/span><\/a> (Sophia Lee, World Mag\u00ada\u00adzine). <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The Legal Mean\u00ading of the Cos\u00adby Mis\u00adtri\u00adal<\/span><\/a> (Jean\u00adnie Suk Gersen, New York\u00ader): \u201cThe extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnar\u00adi\u00adly high pros\u00ade\u00adcu\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal bur\u00adden of proof in any crim\u00adi\u00adnal tri\u00adal is inten\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly designed to heav\u00adi\u00adly favor defen\u00addants, because we long ago embraced as a soci\u00adety Blackstone\u2019s prin\u00adci\u00adple. For\u00admu\u00adlat\u00aded in the sev\u00aden\u00adteen-six\u00adties by the Eng\u00adlish jurist William Black\u00adstone, the pre\u00adsump\u00adtion is that it is bet\u00adter to have ten guilty peo\u00adple go free than that one inno\u00adcent per\u00adson suf\u00adfer. Hard as it is to stom\u00adach today, embrac\u00ading that cal\u00adcu\u00adlus means that we should even want ten rapists (not to men\u00adtion ter\u00adror\u00adists and mur\u00adder\u00aders) to go free in order to pro\u00adtect the one false\u00adly accused.\u201d Gersen, a Har\u00advard Law prof, also has anoth\u00ader sol\u00adid arti\u00adcle this week: <\/span>Why Racial\u00adly Offen\u00adsive Trade\u00admarks Are Now Legal\u00adly Pro\u00adtect\u00aded<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Phi\u00adlan\u00addo Castile After\u00admath<\/span><\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201c<\/span>Still, I can\u2019t grasp why Castile\u2019s killer got away scot-free, and why there hasn\u2019t been much of an out\u00adcry. If a police offi\u00adcer can shoot to death a motorist who was obey\u00ading all his com\u00admands, and walk away a free man from that shoot\u00ading, how safe are any of us?\u201d On Slate, Leon Ney\u00adfakh writes Phi\u00adlan\u00addo Castile Should Be the NRA\u2019s Per\u00adfect Cause C\u00e9l\u00e8bre. There\u2019s Just One Prob\u00adlem. <\/a><\/span><\/span>See also David French\u2019s <\/span>The Unwrit\u00adten Law That Helps Bad Cops Go Free<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Camille Paglia: On Trump, Democ\u00adrats, Trans\u00adgen\u00adderism, and Islamist Ter\u00adror<\/a> (Jonathan V. Last, The Week\u00adly Stan\u00addard): \u201cAlthough I describe myself as trans\u00adgen\u00adder (I was don\u00adning flam\u00adboy\u00adant male cos\u00adtumes from ear\u00adly child\u00adhood on), I am high\u00adly skep\u00adti\u00adcal about the cur\u00adrent trans\u00adgen\u00adder wave, which I think has been pro\u00adduced by far more com\u00adpli\u00adcat\u00aded psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal and soci\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal fac\u00adtors than cur\u00adrent gen\u00adder dis\u00adcourse allows. Fur\u00adther\u00admore, I con\u00addemn the esca\u00adlat\u00ading pre\u00adscrip\u00adtion of puber\u00adty block\u00aders (whose long-term effects are unknown) for chil\u00addren. I regard this prac\u00adtice as a crim\u00adi\u00adnal vio\u00adla\u00adtion of human rights.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. Mis-Edu\u00adcat\u00ading The Young<\/span><\/a> (David Brooks, NY Times): <\/span>\u201cChild\u00adhood is more struc\u00adtured than it has ever been. But then the great engine of the mer\u00adi\u00adtoc\u00adra\u00adcy spits peo\u00adple out into a young adult\u00adhood that is less struc\u00adtured than it has ever been.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. The most impor\u00adtant truth about hard work, and also read\u00ading, that you can find<\/span><\/a> (Tyler Cowen, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): <\/span>\u201cGiv\u00aden two peo\u00adple of approx\u00adi\u00admate\u00adly the same abil\u00adi\u00adty and one per\u00adson who works ten per\u00adcent more than the oth\u00ader, the lat\u00adter will more than twice out\u00adpro\u00adduce the for\u00admer. 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 oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty \u2013 it is very much like com\u00adpound inter\u00adest.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Two minds: The cog\u00adni\u00adtive dif\u00adfer\u00adences between men and women<\/span><\/a> (Bruce Gold\u00adman, Stan\u00adford Med\u00adi\u00adcine): \u201cIn a study of 34 rhe\u00adsus mon\u00adkeys, for exam\u00adple, males strong\u00adly pre\u00adferred toys with wheels over plush toys, where\u00adas females found plush toys lik\u00adable. It would be tough to argue that the mon\u00adkeys\u2019 par\u00adents bought them sex-typed toys or that simi\u00adan soci\u00adety encour\u00adages its male off\u00adspring to play more with trucks.\u201d Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Entertaining<\/h3>\n