{"id":4607,"date":"2017-07-28T14:04:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T22:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2017-07-28T14:04:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T22:04:32","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/07\/28\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-111","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 111"},"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. Meet the Megadonor Behind the LGBTQ Rights Move\u00adment<\/span><\/a> (Andy Krol<\/span>l, Rolling Stone): \u201cMore broad\u00adly, for Gill and his allies, nondis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion is the new front of the move\u00adment: a cam\u00adpaign that pits LGBTQ advo\u00adcates against a reli\u00adgious right that respond\u00aded to mar\u00adriage equal\u00adi\u00adty by redou\u00adbling its efforts\u2026. Gill refus\u00ades to go on the defense. \u2018We\u2019re going into the hard\u00adest states in the coun\u00adtry,\u2019 he says. \u2018We\u2019re going to pun\u00adish the wicked.\u2019.\u2026 \u2018We have been fight\u00ading for [nondis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion] since the Six\u00adties,\u2019 he says. \u2018It\u2019s the reli\u00adgious right that decid\u00aded to make mar\u00adriage an issue. They worked tire\u00adless\u00adly on it for decades and they lost.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Fusion GPS Illu\u00admi\u00adnates the Brave New World of Man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtured News For Hire<\/span><\/a> (Lee Smith, Tablet Mag\u00ada\u00adzine) \u201c<\/span>There is no accu\u00adrate account\u00ading of how many of the sto\u00adries you read in the news are the fruit of oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion research, because no jour\u00adnal\u00adist wants to admit how many of their top \u2018sources\u2019 are just infor\u00adma\u00adtion packagers\u2014which is why the blind\u00ading suc\u00adcess of Fusion GPS is the least-cov\u00adered media sto\u00adry in Amer\u00adi\u00adca right now.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The Death Of Read\u00ading Is Threat\u00aden\u00ading The Soul<\/a> (Philip Yancey, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cI am read\u00ading many few\u00ader books these days, and even few\u00ader of the kinds of books that require hard work. The Inter\u00adnet and social media have trained my brain to read a para\u00adgraph or two, and then start look\u00ading around.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. Ask Andrew W.K.: My Dad Is a Right-Wing Ass\u00adhole<\/a> (Andrew W.K., The Vil\u00adlage Voice): apolo\u00adgies for the title, this is a sur\u00adpris\u00ading\u00adly good piece (pub\u00adlished back in 2014).<\/li>\n
  5. Char\u00adlie Gard and the Experts<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cThe rights of par\u00adents are essen\u00adtial to a free society\u2019s archi\u00adtec\u00adture, and fathers and moth\u00aders are far more like\u00adly than any oth\u00ader par\u00adty to have their child\u2019s best inter\u00adests close to heart. To inter\u00advene on behalf of experts against the fam\u00adi\u00adly is some\u00adtimes nec\u00ades\u00adsary but always dan\u00adger\u00adous, fraught with total\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan temp\u00adta\u00adtions to which the mod\u00adern West is not immune.\u201d Char\u00adlie Gard died after this col\u00adumn was writ\u00adten, which makes the piece even more impor\u00adtant.<\/li>\n
  6. How Cool Works In Amer\u00adi\u00adca Today<\/span><\/a> (David Brooks, New York Times): argues that being woke is a cul\u00adtur\u00adal replace\u00adment for being cool. \u201cThe woke men\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty became promi\u00adnent in 2012 and 2013 with the Trayvon Mar\u00adtin case and the rise of Black Lives Mat\u00adter. Embrace it or not, B.L.M. is the most com\u00adplete social move\u00adment in Amer\u00adi\u00adca today, as a com\u00admu\u00adnal, intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal, moral and polit\u00adi\u00adcal force.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Free Mar\u00adkets and Uni\u00adcorns<\/a> (Andrew Strain, First Things): \u201cIn the age of cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtions, a tru\u00adly free mar\u00adket is as myth\u00adi\u00adcal as a uni\u00adcorn.\u201d This essay called forth the response piece Why is social\u00adism being pro\u00admot\u00aded by con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Chris\u00adt\u00adian out\u00adlets?<\/a> (Joe Carter, Acton Insti\u00adtute): \u201cby ana\u00adlyz\u00ading his essay we can see a com\u00admon pat\u00adtern that is emerg\u00ading, even in once con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtions: writ\u00aders who don\u2019t know the first thing about free mar\u00adkets explain\u00ading why they are infe\u00adri\u00ador to social\u00adist poli\u00adcies.\u201d Read\u00ading them togeth\u00ader is illu\u00admi\u00adnat\u00ading.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Amusing\/Entertaining<\/h3>\n