{"id":4537,"date":"2017-07-07T22:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2017-07-07T22:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T06:00:03","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/07\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-108","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 108"},"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. Should Tyler Cowen Believe In God?<\/span><\/a> (Ross Douthat, NYT): this is delight\u00adful. \u201c<\/span>There: I\u2019ve prob\u00ada\u00adbly blas\u00adphemed, weak\u00adened my Catholic cre\u00adden\u00adtials, endan\u00adgered my soul, insult\u00aded my reli\u00adgious brethren, picked point\u00adless fights with Mus\u00adlims and Calvin\u00adists, and betrayed a juve\u00adnile under\u00adstand\u00ading of sta\u00adtis\u00adtics.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Des\u00adper\u00ada\u00adtion and Ser\u00advice in the Bail Indus\u00adtry<\/span><\/a> (Joshua Page, Con\u00adtexts): \u201c\u2026indus\u00adtry advo\u00adcates con\u00adfi\u00addent\u00adly assert that bail com\u00adpa\u00adnies and agents are ser\u00advice providers help\u00ading needy peo\u00adple. As my research shows, this claim is based in real\u00adi\u00adty. But it is a <\/span>con\u00adstruct\u00aded<\/span><\/i> real\u00adi\u00adty. Polit\u00adi\u00adcal and legal deci\u00adsions make the ser\u00advices nec\u00ades\u00adsary in the first place.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. \u201cHigh\u201d Achiev\u00aders? Cannabis Access and Aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic Per\u00adfor\u00admance<\/span><\/a> (Olivi\u00ader Marie & Ulf Z\u00f6litz, The Review of Eco\u00adnom\u00adic Stud\u00adies): The authors stud\u00adied \u201can excep\u00adtion\u00adal pol\u00adi\u00adcy intro\u00adduced in the city of Maas\u00adtricht in the Nether\u00adlands that dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded access via licensed cannabis shops based on an individual\u2019s nation\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty\u2026. We find that the aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic per\u00adfor\u00admance of stu\u00addents who are no longer legal\u00adly per\u00admit\u00adted to buy cannabis sub\u00adstan\u00adtial\u00adly increas\u00ades.\u201d In oth\u00ader news, water is wet. You can find <\/span>a PDF of the full paper at SSRN<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. The Case Against Car\u00addi\u00adnal Pell<\/span><\/a> (Julia Yost, First Things): this is fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading and dis\u00adtress\u00ading and full of all sorts of indi\u00adrect\u00adly-relat\u00aded asides, such as \u201cthe McMartin Preschool case gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded 321 charges from forty-one chil\u00addren. We now know that every charge was a lie and every child was a liar. Yet today, with the chil\u00addren now well into their thir\u00adties, many of them still insist that their charges were true.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Stranger In A Strange Land<\/a> (Fran\u00adcis J. Beck\u00adwith, Inside High\u00ader Ed): \u201cA lit\u00adtle over four years ago, the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Col\u00adorado at Boul\u00adder began a three-year pilot pro\u00adgram that I believe has no prece\u00addent in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan high\u00ader edu\u00adca\u00adtion. With the help of pri\u00advate donors and the sup\u00adport of the university\u2019s board, pres\u00adi\u00addent and chan\u00adcel\u00adlor, the school cre\u00adat\u00aded the posi\u00adtion of Vis\u00adit\u00ading Schol\u00adar of Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Thought and Pol\u00adi\u00adcy.\u201d<\/li>\n
  6. I Am Not a \u2018Paki,\u2019 Not a Ter\u00adror\u00adist. I Am Nobody but Myself.<\/span><\/a> (Omar Aziz, NY Times): rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent. \u201cHere is the basic conun\u00addrum the child of immi\u00adgrants faces as he goes through school. Until now, he has safe\u00adly assumed the iden\u00adti\u00adty pro\u00advid\u00aded to him by his fam\u00adi\u00adly, but as he encoun\u00adters inno\u00adcent white faces, he is con\u00adfront\u00aded with an inter\u00adro\u00adga\u00adtion about who he real\u00adly is.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Would Your Dog Eat You if You Died? Get the Facts.<\/a> (Eri\u00adka Engel\u00adhaupt, Nation\u00adal Geo\u00adgraph\u00adic): \u201cThere\u2019s no way to guar\u00adan\u00adtee that your pet won\u2019t eat you if you die, apart from not hav\u00ading any pets. Even ham\u00adsters and birds have been known to scav\u00adenge on occa\u00adsion.\u201d Ham\u00adsters? Real\u00adly? Who has ham\u00adsters roam\u00ading freely through their house?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Amusing<\/h3>\n