{"id":4703,"date":"2017-09-22T19:37:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T03:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2017-09-22T19:37:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T03:37:51","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/09\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-119","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 119"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. I welcome your suggestions, so if you read something fascinating please pass it my way.<\/p>\n

A note to our new students: no, you don\u2019t have to read the whole thing. What a lot of Chi Alphans do is skim the list and find one or two that seem interesting to them and open them in new tabs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Be sure to read the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom.<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. Views among college students regarding the First Amendment: Results from a new survey<\/span><\/a> (John Villasenor, Brookings Institution): \u201cStudents act as <\/span>de facto<\/span><\/i> arbiters of free expression on campus. The Supreme Court justices are not standing by at the entrances to public university lecture halls ready to step in if First Amendment rights are curtailed. If a significant percentage of students believe that views they find offensive should be silenced, those views will in fact be silenced.\u201d The author is an  <\/span>absurdly accomplished<\/span><\/a> Stanford grad: he is a simultaneously a professor of electrical engineering and public policy while also serving as a visiting professor of law (all at at UCLA) as well as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. I Went To North Korea: What You\u2019ve Heard vs What I Saw<\/span><\/a> (Mark Hill, Cracked): \u201cSeven carefully controlled days isn\u2019t enough time to become an expert in any country, let alone one this complicated, and the best people to tell the story are Koreans themselves. But they\u2019re not really available right now\u2026\u201d The article is interesting and mostly confirms my impressions of North Korea.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Is Internet Porn Making Young Men Impotent?<\/span><\/a> (EJ Dickson, Rolling Sto<\/span>ne): \u201cA number of factors have been speculated as being behind this trend, from eating processed foods to taking psychotropic drugs. Yet it\u2019s porn that is most frequently cited as the likely culprit, prompting the creation of the term \u2018porn-induced erectile dysfunction,\u2019 which was coined by Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, an associate clinical professor of urology at Harvard Medical School.\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Protestants: The Most \u2018Catholic\u2019 of Christians<\/span><\/a> (Caleb Lindgren, Christianity Today): \u201c<\/span>The \u2018Reforming Catholic Confession,\u2019 released today, aims to demonstrate that\u2014despite \u201cdenominationalism\u201d\u2014Protestants are remarkably unified.\u201d See <\/span>A Reforming Catholic Confession<\/span><\/a> for the text of the statement.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing<\/span><\/a> (<\/span>Sarah Brayne, American Sociological Review): \u201c<\/span>In some instances, it is simply easier for law enforcement to purchase privately collected data than to rely on in-house data because there are fewer constitutional protections, reporting requirements, and appellate checks on private sector surveillance and data collection.\u2026 Moreover, respondents explained, privately collected data is sometimes more up-to-date.\u201d <\/span>(hat tip: <\/span>Big Data Surveillance<\/span><\/a> by Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution). The author is a sociologist at UT Austin.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. The Academic Reason Why There Are So Few Conservatives In Academia<\/span><\/a> (George Yancey, Patheos): \u201c\u2026over the last several years, I have been doing empirical work in anti-Christian bias in society and academia. The way my work has been treated has changed dramatically although I became better, not worse, in doing research. Reviewers are clearly more hostile to my work on anti-Christian bias than my work in race and ethnicity, and some of their critiques are almost laughable. Those who want to state that we can trust science because it enables an open search for the truth have never tried to publish work that violates the political and moral sensibilities of academics.\u201d The author is a professor of sociology at the University of North Texas.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. A Third of Vegetarians Eat Meat When They\u2019re Drunk<\/a> (Phoebe Hurst, Vice):  this research does not appear to be of the highest quality, but I found it intriguing nonetheless.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Amusing<\/h3>\n