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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. How to read books efficiently in grad school<\/a> (Thomas Kidd, personal newsletter): \u201cHere\u2019s the method I recommend for reading a book efficiently: read every word of the introduction and conclusion of a book. Then read the introduction and conclusion of each chapter word-for-word. Within each chapter, read the first and last sentence of each body paragraph. Slow down when it gets interesting, or when the author hits on your particular research interest.\u201d Kidd is a history professor at Baylor University. There is a lengthier article with related thoughts titled Efficient Reading<\/a> by Karin Wulf, a history professor at William and Mary.<\/li>\n
  2. The Anti-Christian Alt-Right<\/a> (Matthew Rose, First Things): \u201cAlmost everything written about the \u2018alternative right\u2019 in mainstream outlets is wrong in one respect. The alt-right is not stupid. It is deep. Its ideas are not ridiculous. They are serious. To appreciate this fact, one needs to inquire beyond its presence on social media, where its obnoxious use of insult, obscenity, and racism has earned it a reputation for moral idiocy. The reputation is deserved, but do not be deceived. Behind its online tantrums and personal attacks are arguments of genuine power and expanding appeal\u2026. The alt-right is anti-Christian. Not by implication or insinuation, but by confession. Its leading thinkers flaunt their rejection of Christianity and their desire to convert believers away from it.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. News To A Foreign Country<\/a> (David Warren, personal blog): \u201cThe State has its religion, we have ours. So long as we remain meek and obedient, to anything we are required to sign, the Antichrist himself wouldn\u2019t care what we think. The trouble arises only when we fail to sign, salute, or check the right boxes. That is, from the Antichrist\u2019s point of view, a form of defiance that requires punishment \u2014 a punishment that we have brought upon ourselves, as will be condescendingly explained.\u201d This is a transcribed speech by a Canadian journalist, and it is extremely fiery and very Catholic.<\/li>\n
  4. Transgender Ideology Is Riddled With Contradictions. Here Are the Big Ones.<\/a> (Ryan T Anderson, Heritage): \u201cIf gender is a social construct, how can gender identity be innate and immutable? How can one\u2019s identity with respect to a social construct be determined by biology in the womb? How can one\u2019s identity be unchangeable (immutable) with respect to an ever-changing social construct? And if gender identity is innate, how can it be \u2018fluid\u2019?\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. Massacre in Myanmar<\/a> (Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, Simon Lewis and Antoni Slodkowski, Reuters):  \u201cReuters has pieced together what happened in Inn Din in the days leading up to the killing of the 10 Rohingya \u2013 eight men and two high school students in their late teens. Until now, accounts of the violence against the Rohingya in Rakhine state have been provided only by its victims. The Reuters reconstruction draws for the first time on interviews with Buddhist villagers who confessed to torching Rohingya homes, burying bodies and killing Muslims. This account also marks the first time soldiers and paramilitary police have been implicated by testimony from security personnel themselves.\u201d<\/li>\n
  6. Should We Say \u201cOf Course\u201d To Feminism?<\/a> (Annika Nordquist, Stanford Review): \u201c\u2026I would challenge all critically-thinking feminists to ask the same question I asked my friend: if this movement doesn\u2019t welcome me, my opinions, or my solutions, why would I want to be part of it?\u201d Yes, this is our Annika.<\/li>\n
  7. Is There a Smarter Way to Think About Sexual Assault on Campus?<\/a>  (Jia Tollentino, The New Yorker):  \u201cIn college, everything is Janus-faced: what you interpret as refuge can lead to danger, and vice versa. One of the most highly valorized social activities, blacking out and hooking up, holds the potential for trauma within it like a seed.\u201d<\/li>\n
  8. What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn<\/a> (Maggie Jones, New York Times): \u201cBut you don\u2019t have to believe that porn leads to sexual assault or that it\u2019s creating a generation of brutal men to wonder how it helps shape how teenagers talk and think about sex and, by extension, their ideas about masculinity, femininity, intimacy and power.\u201d This article uses graphic imagery.<\/li>\n
  9. How Chinese overseas students are learning harsh life lessons<\/a> (Eric Fish, South China Morning Post):   \u201cInterviews with Chinese students studying abroad and academics who research their attitudes present a complex picture \u2013 one in which students enter and leave with diverse views and identities that often defy clear loyalties or ideological labels. But nevertheless, many feel caught in the geopolitical crossfire \u2013 forced to choose a side or keep their heads down.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n