{"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 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. Meet the Megadonor Behind the LGBTQ Rights Movement<\/span><\/a> (Andy Krol<\/span>l, Rolling Stone): \u201cMore broadly, for Gill and his allies, nondiscrimination is the new front of the movement: a campaign that pits LGBTQ advocates against a religious right that responded to marriage equality by redoubling its efforts\u2026. Gill refuses to go on the defense. \u2018We\u2019re going into the hardest states in the country,\u2019 he says. \u2018We\u2019re going to punish the wicked.\u2019.\u2026 \u2018We have been fighting for [nondiscrimination] since the Sixties,\u2019 he says. \u2018It\u2019s the religious right that decided to make marriage an issue. They worked tirelessly on it for decades and they lost.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Fusion GPS Illuminates the Brave New World of Manufactured News For Hire<\/span><\/a> (Lee Smith, Tablet Magazine) \u201c<\/span>There is no accurate accounting of how many of the stories you read in the news are the fruit of opposition research, because no journalist wants to admit how many of their top \u2018sources\u2019 are just information packagers\u2014which is why the blinding success of Fusion GPS is the least-covered media story in America right now.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The Death Of Reading Is Threatening The Soul<\/a> (Philip Yancey, Washington Post): \u201cI am reading many fewer books these days, and even fewer of the kinds of books that require hard work. The Internet and social media have trained my brain to read a paragraph or two, and then start looking around.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. Ask Andrew W.K.: My Dad Is a Right-Wing Asshole<\/a> (Andrew W.K., The Village Voice): apologies for the title, this is a surprisingly good piece (published back in 2014).<\/li>\n
  5. Charlie Gard and the Experts<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cThe rights of parents are essential to a free society\u2019s architecture, and fathers and mothers are far more likely than any other party to have their child\u2019s best interests close to heart. To intervene on behalf of experts against the family is sometimes necessary but always dangerous, fraught with totalitarian temptations to which the modern West is not immune.\u201d Charlie Gard died after this column was written, which makes the piece even more important.<\/li>\n
  6. How Cool Works In America Today<\/span><\/a> (David Brooks, New York Times): argues that being woke is a cultural replacement for being cool. \u201cThe woke mentality became prominent in 2012 and 2013 with the Trayvon Martin case and the rise of Black Lives Matter. Embrace it or not, B.L.M. is the most complete social movement in America today, as a communal, intellectual, moral and political force.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Free Markets and Unicorns<\/a> (Andrew Strain, First Things): \u201cIn the age of corporations, a truly free market is as mythical as a unicorn.\u201d This essay called forth the response piece Why is socialism being promoted by conservative Christian outlets?<\/a> (Joe Carter, Acton Institute): \u201cby analyzing his essay we can see a common pattern that is emerging, even in once conservative publications: writers who don\u2019t know the first thing about free markets explaining why they are inferior to socialist policies.\u201d Reading them together is illuminating.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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