{"id":4565,"date":"2017-07-14T14:17:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T22:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2017-07-17T06:11:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:11:31","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/07\/14\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-109","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 109"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>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. How We Are Ruin\u00ading Amer\u00adi\u00adca<\/a> (David Brooks, NYT): \u201cTo feel at home in oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty-rich areas, you\u2019ve got to under\u00adstand the right barre tech\u00adniques, sport the right baby car\u00adri\u00ader, have the right pod\u00adcast, food truck, tea, wine and Pilates tastes, not to men\u00adtion pos\u00adsess the right atti\u00adtudes about David Fos\u00adter Wal\u00adlace, child-rear\u00ading, gen\u00adder norms and inter\u00adsec\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d This col\u00adumn spawned much deri\u00adsion on social media, but I strong\u00adly agree with Brooks \u2014 and so do many com\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtors. Here are sym\u00adpa\u00adthet\u00adic reac\u00adtions from Fred\u00addie deBoer on the left<\/a> and from Rod Dreher on the right<\/a>. Dan Drezn\u00ader takes it in a dif\u00adfer\u00adent direc\u00adtion<\/a>, and the Mon\u00adkey Cage says \u201cduh\u201d<\/a> while Alan Jacobs calls peo\u00adple unwill\u00ading to acknowl\u00adedge Brooks\u2019 obser\u00adva\u00adtion \u201cwill\u00adful\u00adly blind<\/a>\u201d.<\/li>\n
  2. Luther\u2019s Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion<\/a> (The Nation, Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth Bru\u00adenig): \u201cThe\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy is moral\u00adi\u00adty is pol\u00adi\u00adtics is law\u2014and whether or not it\u2019s imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly obvi\u00adous, the world is steeped in the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy. In con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary Amer\u00adi\u00adca, and espe\u00adcial\u00adly in the more sec\u00adu\u00adlar precincts of West\u00adern Europe, it seems unlike\u00adly that one could look at a prop\u00ader\u00adty deed or a gov\u00adern\u00adment bud\u00adget and find, just beneath its explic\u00adit rea\u00adson\u00ading, traces of old the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal dis\u00adputes and their res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtions. But they\u2019re there\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. I\u2019ve Worked with Refugees for Decades. Europe\u2019s Afghan Crime Wave Is Mind-Bog\u00adgling.<\/span><\/a> (Cheryl Benard, The Nation\u00adal Inter\u00adest): \u201cEuro\u00adpeans were pre\u00addis\u00adposed to be pos\u00adi\u00adtive towards Afghan refugees. But it quick\u00adly became obvi\u00adous that some\u00adthing was wrong, very wrong, with these young Afghan men: they were com\u00admit\u00adting sex crimes to a much greater extent than oth\u00ader refugees\u2026 It took a while for the pat\u00adtern to be rec\u00adog\u00adnized because, until recent\u00adly, west\u00adern Euro\u00adpean media delib\u00ader\u00adate\u00adly refrained from iden\u00adti\u00adfy\u00ading an assailant\u2019s refugee or asy\u00adlum sta\u00adtus, or his coun\u00adtry of ori\u00adgin.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty, Gen\u00adder, and Age in the Lan\u00adguage of Social Media: The Open-Vocab\u00adu\u00adlary Approach<\/span><\/a> (Schwartz HA, Eich\u00adstaedt JC, Kern ML, Dzi\u00adurzyn\u00ads\u00adki L, Ramones SM, Agraw\u00adal M, et al., PLOS One) \u2014 This one is from 2013. Pay par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar atten\u00adtion to <\/span>Fig\u00adure 6<\/span><\/a> and notice the clus\u00adter of words asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with emo\u00adtion\u00adal sta\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty. #blessed #on_my_way to #church<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. No Retreat: Lecrae\u2019s Approach to \u201cCul\u00adture-Mak\u00ading\u201d<\/span><\/a> (Jemar Tis\u00adby, Christ and Pop Cul\u00adture): <\/span>\u201cBut Lecrae couldn\u2019t ful\u00adfill his mis\u00adsion if his beats only banged in Chris\u00adt\u00adian ears, though not because Chris\u00adtians aren\u2019t impor\u00adtant to him. It was Chris\u00adt\u00adian fans who pro\u00adpelled him to pop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty and still con\u00adtin\u00adue to sup\u00adport him. Nev\u00ader\u00adthe\u00adless, hav\u00ading tes\u00adti\u00adfied in Jerusalem, so to speak, Lecrae felt com\u00adpelled to tes\u00adti\u00adfy also in Rome (Acts 23:11).\u201d This is relat\u00aded to what we\u2019re cov\u00ader\u00ading in our sum\u00admer read\u00ading project<\/a>, and you\u2019re wel\u00adcome to join us. <\/span><\/li>\n
  6. In Praise of Extreme Med\u00adi\u00adcine<\/span><\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201c<\/span>It\u2019s odd that we allow some crazy things and ban others\u2014even more that the crazy things we allow are some\u00adtimes social\u00adly use\u00adless while the crazy things that we ban are some\u00adtimes social\u00adly valu\u00adable. <\/span>The case for ban\u00adning extreme sports, for exam\u00adple, is much stronger than the case for ban\u00adning extreme med\u00adi\u00adcine.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. \u2018Born this way\u2019? It\u2019s way more com\u00adpli\u00adcat\u00aded than that<\/span><\/a> (Alia E. Dasta\u00adgir, US<\/span>A Today): \u201cGet\u00adting Amer\u00adi\u00adca to believe that peo\u00adple are born gay \u2014 that it\u2019s not some\u00adthing that can be cho\u00adsen or ever changed \u2014 has been cen\u00adtral to the fight for gay rights. If some\u00adone can\u2019t help being gay any more than they can help the col\u00ador of their skin, the log\u00adic goes, deny\u00ading them rights is wrong. But many mem\u00adbers of the LGBTQ com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty reject this nar\u00adra\u00adtive\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Why Roman con\u00adcrete still stands strong while mod\u00adern ver\u00adsion decays<\/span><\/a> (Nico\u00adla Davis, The Guardian): rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by an alum\u00adnus. I some\u00adtimes hear peo\u00adple state it like a self-evi\u00addent truth that we are smarter than the ancients. I see no evi\u00addence we are any more intel\u00adli\u00adgent than them. We just have more accu\u00admu\u00adlat\u00aded knowl\u00adedge in cer\u00adtain domains.<\/span>
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    Things Glen Found Entertaining<\/h3>\n