{"id":4856,"date":"2018-02-16T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T05:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2018-02-16T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T05:10:06","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-139","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/02\/16\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-139","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 139"},"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 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<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2018\/03\/illiberal-democracy\">Illib\u00ader\u00adal Democ\u00adra\u00adcy<\/a> (Kyle Harp\u00ader, First Things): \u201cThe fact that democ\u00adra\u00adcy at its out\u00adset was so flat\u00adly illib\u00ader\u00adal shows that the mod\u00adern syn\u00adthe\u00adsis of lib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adism and democ\u00adra\u00adcy is not inevitable or nec\u00ades\u00adsary.\u201d Harp\u00ader is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of clas\u00adsics at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Okla\u00adhoma review\u00ading a book by Stan\u00adford clas\u00adsics pro\u00adfes\u00adsor Ober.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com\/blog\/how-much-should-a-man-spend-on-an-engagement-ring\/\">How much to spend on an engage\u00adment ring<\/a> (Ramit Sethi, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cLook at your own finan\u00adcial sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion to decide what you can com\u00adfort\u00adably afford. I asked more than 1,500 of my read\u00aders, and depend\u00ading on income, peo\u00adple typ\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly spent between 4% and 8% of their year\u00adly income.\u201d Sethi is a Stan\u00adford grad who is obsessed with per\u00adson\u00adal finance. Gen\u00adtle\u00admen: read this post even if you\u2019re not in a rela\u00adtion\u00adship right now. It\u2019s infor\u00adma\u00adtion you will almost cer\u00adtain\u00adly need some\u00adday.\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/planning-a-wedding-say-yes-to-the-guests-and-spend-less-on-the-dress\">Plan\u00adning a Wed\u00adding? Say Yes to the Guests and Spend Less on the Dress<\/a> (Scott Stan\u00adley and Gale\u00adna Rhoad\u00ades, Insti\u00adtute For Fam\u00adi\u00adly Stud\u00adies): \u201cthe evi\u00addence sug\u00adgests that the types of wed\u00addings asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with low\u00ader like\u00adli\u00adhood of divorce are those that are rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly inex\u00adpen\u00adsive but are high in atten\u00addance.\u201d The authors are pro\u00adfes\u00adsors at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Den\u00adver.<\/li>\n<li>Also relat\u00aded and bet\u00adter than the title makes it sound: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2018\/02\/the-burdensome-myth-of-romantic-love\">The Bur\u00adden\u00adsome Myth of Roman\u00adtic Love<\/a> (David C. Dol\u00adlahite and Bet\u00adsy Van\u00adDen\u00adBerghe, First Things): &nbsp;\u201c\u2026in order for a rela\u00adtion\u00adship to flour\u00adish, exis\u00adten\u00adtial needs should be met out\u00adside it. In study after study, the most suc\u00adcess\u00adful mar\u00adriages tend to unite reli\u00adgious cou\u00adples whose shared beliefs con\u00adduce to sta\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty and sat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adtion. These mar\u00adriages not only buck the trends of divorce, abuse, neglect, vio\u00adlence, and dys\u00adfunc\u00adtion, but also ben\u00ade\u00adfit from the incen\u00adtive reli\u00adgion offers for cou\u00adples to work togeth\u00ader for some\u00adthing out\u00adside the self.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/02\/we-all-live-on-campus-now.html\">We All Live on Cam\u00adpus Now <\/a>&nbsp;(Andrew Sul\u00adli\u00advan, NY Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cWhen elite uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties shift their entire world\u00adview away from lib\u00ader\u00adal edu\u00adca\u00adtion as we have long known it toward the imper\u00ada\u00adtives of an iden\u00adti\u00adty-based \u2018social jus\u00adtice\u2019 move\u00adment, the broad\u00ader cul\u00adture is in dan\u00adger of drift\u00ading away from lib\u00ader\u00adal democ\u00adra\u00adcy as well. If elites believe that the core truth of our soci\u00adety is a sys\u00adtem of inter\u00adlock\u00ading and oppres\u00adsive pow\u00ader struc\u00adtures based around immutable char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtics like race or sex or sex\u00adu\u00adal ori\u00aden\u00adta\u00adtion, then soon\u00ader rather than lat\u00ader, this will be reflect\u00aded in our cul\u00adture at large.\u201d What hap\u00adpens on cam\u00adpus does\u00adn\u2019t stay on cam\u00adpus. On the plus side, this is why cam\u00adpus min\u00adistry can change the world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2018\/02\/08\/how-the-national-prayer-breakfast-sparked-an-unusual-meeting-between-muslims-and-evangelicals\/?utm_term=.7ec301f2ad9d\">How the Nation\u00adal Prayer Break\u00adfast sparked an unusu\u00adal meet\u00ading between Mus\u00adlims and evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals<\/a> (Michelle Boorstein, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cThe first time I met an imam in my neigh\u00adbor\u00adhood, we\u2019re five min\u00adutes into the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion, and he said: \u2018Do you think I\u2019m going to hell?\u2019 I said: \u2018That\u2019s what my tra\u00addi\u00adtion teach\u00ades, yes.\u2019 He said: \u2018Good, I think you\u2019re going to hell, too, so now we can have an hon\u00adest con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion.\u2019\u201d The arti\u00adcle also draws a use\u00adful dis\u00adtinc\u00adtion between inter\u00adfaith and mul\u00adti\u00adfaith activ\u00adi\u00adties.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101046916407340625977\/posts\/crgCSgXhCxn\">Oh God, That\u2019s Me: The Hor\u00adror In The Mir\u00adror<\/a> (Rolf Degen, Google Plus): \u201cWhen adults who have nev\u00ader before seen their own reflec\u00adtion are con\u00adfront\u00aded with a mir\u00adror for the first time, they go through an unset\u00adtling expe\u00adri\u00adence\u2026\u201d Degen is a sci\u00adence jour\u00adnal\u00adist, although this isn\u2019t a ful\u00adly worked out piece of jour\u00adnal\u00adism.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/gabrielsanchez\/heres-what-north-korea-lets-you-to-see-when-you-visit?utm_term=.tp7vwBgZV#.brm1pG0r9\">Here\u2019s What North Korea Lets You See When You Trav\u00adel There<\/a> (Fabi\u00adan Muir, Buz\u00adzfeed): \u201cIt has occurred to me that per\u00adhaps some peo\u00adple feel cer\u00adtain images are con\u00adtrived because their com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion makes them feel like tableaux. Such skep\u00adti\u00adcism riles me since it\u2019s dif\u00adfi\u00adcult not to take it per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly when an indi\u00advid\u00adual who has nev\u00ader even vis\u00adit\u00aded North Korea believes they know more on the top\u00adic than some\u00adone who has com\u00adplet\u00aded a two-year project and stud\u00adied every text avail\u00adable.\u201d The top com\u00adment is insight\u00adful.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/10\/opinion\/sunday\/lets-ban-porn.html\">Let\u2019s Ban Porn<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201c\u2026we are sup\u00adposed to be in the midst of a great sex\u00adu\u00adal reassess\u00adment, a clear\u00ading-out of assump\u00adtions that serve misog\u00ady\u00adny and impose bad sex on semi-will\u00ading women. And such a reassess\u00adment will be incom\u00adplete if it nev\u00ader recon\u00adsid\u00aders our sur\u00adren\u00adder to the idea that many teenagers, most young men espe\u00adcial\u00adly, will get their sex edu\u00adca\u00adtion from online smut.\u201d Tyler Cowen is sym\u00adpa\u00adthet\u00adic but wor\u00adries about unin\u00adtend\u00aded con\u00adse\u00adquences: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2018\/02\/should-we-censor-porn.html\">Should We Cen\u00adsor Porn?<\/a> (Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion).\n<ul>\n<li>Also from Douthat\u2019s col\u00adumn: \u201cSo if you want bet\u00adter men by any stan\u00addard, there is every rea\u00adson to regard ubiq\u00adui\u00adtous pornog\u00adra\u00adphy as an obsta\u00adcle \u2014 and to sus\u00adpect that between vir\u00adtu\u00adal real\u00adi\u00adty and creepy forms of cus\u00adtomiza\u00adtion, its influ\u00adence is only like\u00adly to get worse. But unlike many struc\u00adtur\u00adal forces with which moral\u00adists of the left and right con\u00adtend, porn is also just a prod\u00aduct \u2014 some\u00adthing made and dis\u00adtrib\u00aduted and sold, and there\u00adfore sub\u00adject to reg\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion and restric\u00adtion if we so desire. The belief that it should not be restrict\u00aded is a mis\u00adtake; the belief that it can\u00adnot be cen\u00adsored is a super\u00adsti\u00adtion.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/tldr-edition-66-books-bible\/\">The TL;DR Edi\u00adtion Of All 66 Books Of The Bible<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/RWQOo\">A water bal\u00adloon to the head<\/a> (ani\u00admat\u00aded gif)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/uyHfOjV\">Alli\u00adga\u00adtor sav\u00adage\u00adly eats truck<\/a> (ani\u00admat\u00aded gif): I thought the title was an exag\u00adger\u00ada\u00adtion. If so, it\u2019s a mild one. Watch all the way through.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/family-prays-mcdonalds-food-miraculously-transforms-chick-fil\/\">Fam\u00adi\u00adly Prays At McDonald\u2019s, Food Mirac\u00adu\u00adlous\u00adly Trans\u00adforms Into Chick-Fil\u2011A<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2018\/02\/13\">DNA tests for pig ances\u00adtry<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/food\/no-food-is-healthy-not-even-kale\/2016\/01\/15\/4a5c2d24-ba52-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html?tid=pm_pop_b\">No Food Is Healthy. Not Even Kale.<\/a> (Michael Ruhlman, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): Peo\u00adple can be healthy. Food can be nutri\u00adtious. This is a won\u00adder\u00adful essay about how we mis\u00aduse lan\u00adguage to our detri\u00adment. If you\u2019re sur\u00adprised I includ\u00aded this, I believe that our cul\u00adture has a qua\u00adsi-reli\u00adgious rela\u00adtion\u00adship to health and to food, and I also believe that the use of lan\u00adguage is pro\u00adfound\u00adly moral and that our cul\u00adture is a lin\u00adguis\u00adtic mess (to which I know of no fin\u00ader guide than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcetext.com\/grammarian\/\">The Under\u00adground Gram\u00admar\u00adi\u00adan<\/a>). (first shared in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/01\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-33\">vol\u00adume 33<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it).<\/p>\n<p>Also, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about 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 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. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Illib\u00ader\u00adal Democ\u00adra\u00adcy (Kyle Harp\u00ader, First Things): \u201cThe fact that democ\u00adra\u00adcy at its out\u00adset was \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/02\/16\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-139\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 139\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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Muslims and Christians amicably agree the other group is going to hell, how much to spend on an engagement ring, and more.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1gk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856","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=4856"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4863,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions\/4863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}