{"id":4752,"date":"2017-11-10T20:23:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4752"},"modified":"2017-11-10T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T04:23:09","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/11\/10\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-126","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 126"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/11\/9\/16614672\/ideology-liberal-conservatives\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For elites, politics is driven by ideology. For voters, it\u2019s not.<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;(Ezra Klein, Vox): \u201cIn theory, ideology comes first and party comes second. We decide whether we\u2019re for single-payer health care, or same-sex marriage, or abortion restriction, and then we choose the party that most closely fits our ideas. You\u2019re a liberal and so you become a Democrat; you\u2019re a conservative and so you become a Republican. The truth, it seems, is closer to the reverse.\u2026\u201d<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>I found the above interesting to read in conjunction with this article \u2014 it\u2019s on the long side:&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/the-primal-scream-of-identity-politics\/article\/2010234\">The Primal Scream of Identity Politics<\/a> (Mary Eberstadt, The Weekly Standard): \u201cIsn\u2019t it suggestive that the earliest collective articulation of identity politics came from the community that was first to suffer from the accelerated fraying of family ties, a harbinger of what came next for all? Identity politics cannot be understood apart from the preceding and concomitant social fact of family implosion.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Also relevant: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/453610\/roy-moore-sexual-misconduct-allegations-shouldnt-be-dismissed-conservatives\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conservatives, Don\u2019t Dismiss the Sexual Misconduct Claims Against Roy Moore<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (David French, National Review): \u201cEach day seems to bring a new story of yet another powerful person facing a string of accusations. While there is a danger of a witch hunt, the presence of multiple claims of misconduct from multiple sources should always make us pause \u2014 regardless of whether the alleged abuser comes from the Left or the Right. It\u2019s a moral imperative that we not determine the veracity of the allegations by the ideology of the accused.\u201d Roy Moore has been previously mentioned in volumes <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/10\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-121\">121<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/01\/08\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-31\">31<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/03\/opinion\/california-fires-housing.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fires Aren\u2019t the Only Threat to the California Dream<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Enrico Moretti, NY Times): \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the past two years, San Francisco County <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">added 38,000 jobs<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, reaching its highest employment level ever. Yet only 4,500 new housing units were permitted. For all those new families knocking on San Francisco doors, new units are available for less than 12 percent of them. The numbers for Silicon Valley are even worse. This is why the rents skyrocket. The problem is largely self-inflicted: the region has some of the country\u2019s slowest, most political and cumbersome housing approval processes and most stringent land-use restrictions.\u201d The author is an economics prof at UC Berkeley.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/articles\/201711\/sculpted-evolution\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sculpted By Evolution<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (David Schmitt, Psychology Today): \u201c\u2026empirical evidence shows that most sex differences are conspicuously larger in cultures with more egalitarian gender roles\u2014as in Scandinavia\u2026. Extremes of sexual freedom beget larger psychological sex differences. Or as explained by Israeli psychologists Shalom Schwartz and Tammy Rubel-Lifshitz, it may be that having fewer gendered restrictions in a culture allows \u2018both sexes to pursue more freely the values they inherently care about more.\u2019\u201d The author was mentioned <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/08\/11\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-113\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">back in volume 113<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in connection with the Google gender memo.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2017\/12\/liberal-tradition-yes-liberal-ideology-no\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liberal Tradition, Yes; Liberal Ideology, No<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (R.R. Reno, First Things): this is long, very Catholic, and veers into occasional brilliance. Recommended if that description appeals to you. \u201cLiberalism, properly understood, is not a creed; it is a tradition, a set of institutions, and a habit of&nbsp;mind.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jamesbridle\/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something Is Wrong On The Internet<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (James Bridle, Medium): \u201c\u2026I don\u2019t even have kids and right now I just want to burn the whole thing down. Someone or something or some combination of people and things is using YouTube to systematically frighten, traumatise, and abuse children, automatically and at scale, and it forces me to question my own beliefs about the internet, at every level.\u201d This is really interesting.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeledmundanderson.com\/?p=2969\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Walton and Israel\u2019s Conquest of Canaan: Did God Really Command Genocide? (Spoiler Alert: No, he didn\u2019t..and the Israelites didn\u2019t claim he did to justify mass killing either)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Joel Anderson, personal blog): &nbsp;\u201cif you object to what is being described in the book of Joshua, that\u2019s like objecting to the Allies banning Nazism and Nazi symbols in Germany, or to the United States trying to get rid of the Taliban who had inflicted horrendous atrocities on the innocent Afghani people. But who in their right mind would do&nbsp;that?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/04\/opinion\/sunday\/christianity-communism.html?smid=fb-share\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are Christians Supposed To Be Communists?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (David Bentley Hart, New York Times): \u201cThere were no political ideologies in the ancient world, no abstract programs for the reconstitution of society. But if not a political movement, the church was a kind of polity, and the form of life it assumed was not merely a practical strategy for survival, but rather the embodiment of its highest spiritual ideals. Its \u2018communism\u2019 was hardly incidental to the faith.\u201d This is ultimately a meditation on the Greek word <em>koinonia<\/em>. Hart leaves out some important parts of the New Testament witness (such as 1 Tim 6:17\u201318 and Acts 5:4) and thereby veers from the truth a little. Still, anytime someone gets a theological op-ed published in the NYT I\u2019m impressed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Amusing<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/bigoted-progressive-christian-refuses-call-god-preferred-pronouns\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bigoted Progressive Christian Refuses To Call God By His Preferred Pronouns<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Babylon Bee)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/atheist-accepts-multiverse-theory-every-possible-universe-except-biblical-one\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atheist Accepts Multiverse Theory Of Every Possible Universe Except Biblical One<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Babylon Bee)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basicinstructions.net\/basic-instructions\/2017\/11\/2\/how-to-help-someone-with-their-relationship-problems\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How To Help Someone With Their Relationship Problems<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Scott Meyer, Basic Instructions)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/564x\/d5\/e0\/13\/d5e01372ec449fe5293c53e4ee2ecc67.jpg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to be invisible<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (a screencap from Brooklyn 99)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stanfordloo.review\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Stanford Loo Review<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;the FoHO turned me on to this gem. I particularly like the KZSU&nbsp;entry.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting A While&nbsp;Ago<\/h3>\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanscholar.org\/on-political-correctness\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Political Correctness<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (William Deresiewicz, The American Scholar): a long and thoughtful article. \u201cSelective private colleges have become religious schools. The religion in question is not Methodism or Catholicism but an extreme version of the belief system of the liberal elite: the liberal professional, managerial, and creative classes, which provide a large majority of students enrolled at such places and an even larger majority of faculty and administrators who work at them. To attend those institutions is to be socialized, and not infrequently, indoctrinated into that religion\u2026. I say this, by the way, as an atheist, a democratic socialist, a native northeasterner, a person who believes that colleges should not have sports teams in the first place\u2014and in case it isn\u2019t obvious by now, a card-carrying member of the liberal elite.\u201d (first shared in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/03\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-92\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">volume 92<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it).<\/p>\n<p>Also, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about&nbsp;it.<\/p>\n<p>Archives at <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&nbsp;way. Things Glen Found Interesting For elites, politics is driven by ideology. For voters, it\u2019s not. &nbsp;(Ezra Klein, Vox): \u201cIn \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/11\/10\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 126\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Roy Moore, the California housing crisis, gender differences, and other non-controversial writings.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[124,218,195,117,147,214],"class_list":["post-4752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-california","tag-gender","tag-politics","tag-sexual-assault","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1eE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}