{"id":4893,"date":"2018-03-30T22:15:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T06:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2018-03-30T22:15:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T06:15:47","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/03\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-145","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 145"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been traveling a lot this week, so I haven\u2019t done as much online reading as normal. A few of these links are actually leftovers from previous weeks that didn\u2019t quite make the original cut. Let me know if I overlooked something you think I\u2019d find interesting!<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. Why I\u2019m Happy My Son Married at 20<\/span><\/a> (Rebecca Brewster Stevenson, Christianity Today): \u201cThe prevalent message in our culture is that young adulthood is the time to build a foundation for a healthy life. Those in their early 20s are encouraged to pursue education, travel, and gain life experience, all unhindered by wedlock. Marriage is viewed by many as something that comes only after adequate time to develop personal identity and establish a strong financial footing. But inherent in this delay is a reality we as parents are very cognizant of: Young adults, like all of us, are sexual beings. When marriage is delayed, so is the opportunity to experience sexual intimacy within God\u2019s parameters of a marriage covenant.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Stanford\u2019s Proposed Renaming Principles<\/span><\/a>: when I read the principles, my initial thought was that Serra\u2019s name was secure on campus. But<\/span> at least one student strongly disagrees<\/span><\/a>.  <\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The Perils of Paid Content<\/span><\/a> (Andrew Potter, In Due Course): \u201cWhen I was a student journalist, it was axiomatic that advertising was the biggest threat to independent media. Putting your livelihood in the hands of capitalists meant, ipso facto, doing their bidding. Experience is a great teacher though, and when I started working as an editor at a newspaper, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that you didn\u2019t wake up every day to a swarm of calls from outraged advertisers threatening to pull their campaigns if we didn\u2019t smarten up\u2026.  But you know who does complain a lot? Subscribers do, endlessly.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Last Fall This Scholar Defended Colonialism. Now He\u2019s Defending Himself.<\/a> (Vimal Patel, Chronicle of Higher Education): \u201cThere are two separate issues. One is the substantive issue of colonialism. I think the academy remains highly illiberal and intolerant of my viewpoint. It remains the case that most of the people who supported me didn\u2019t support me because they agreed with my argument. I think my supporters came in two types: those who agreed with my argument, and others who said that even bad arguments that have gone through the process of being published should be responded to, not silenced.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. Empire State Of Mind<\/span><\/a> (Doug Mack, Slate): \u201cIf you can find Iowa on the map and rattle off a few facts about the state (<\/span>corn, caucuses, Field of Dreams, a really big state fair<\/span><\/i>), you should be able to do the same for Puerto Rico, which has a larger population. That\u2019s especially important for leaders in Washington, given that the territories have no full-fledged congressional representation of their own, and given that a certain baseline level of knowledge is a prerequisite for sound policymaking.\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n
  6. The Cambridge Analytica Scandal, in 3 Paragraphs<\/span><\/a> (Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic): \u201cAbout 270,000 people installed Kogan\u2019s app on their Facebook account. But as with any Facebook developer at the time, Kogan could access data about those users or their friends. And when Kogan\u2019s app asked for that data, it saved that information into a private database instead of immediately deleting it. Kogan provided that private database, containing information about 50 million Facebook users, to the voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica used it to make 30 million \u2018psychographic\u2019 profiles about voters.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. John Bolton Is Right About the U.N.<\/span><\/a> (Bret Stephens, New York Times): \u201cThe U.N. is a never-ending scandal disguised as an everlasting hope. The hope is that dialogue can overcome distrust and collective security can be made to work in the interests of humanity. Reality says otherwise. Trust is established by deeds, not words. Collective security is a recipe for international paralysis or worse. Just ask the people of Aleppo.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n

    Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have The world will only get weirder<\/span><\/a> (Steven Coast, personal blog): \u201cWe fixed all the main reasons aircraft crash a long time ago. Sometimes a long, long time ago. So, we are left with the less and less probable events.\u201d The piece is a few years old so the examples are dated, but it remains very intriguing. (first shared in <\/span>volume 67<\/span><\/a>) <\/span><\/p>\n

    Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n

    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

    Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n

    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 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

    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 it.<\/p>\n

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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\u2019ve been traveling a lot this week, so I haven\u2019t done as much online reading as normal. A few of these links are actually leftovers from previous weeks that didn\u2019t quite make \u2026 Continue reading \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 145\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":"Some leftover links from previous weeks. Looking them over, some of these are pretty good!","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":[131,127,221,112,117,135],"class_list":["post-4893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-history","tag-journalism","tag-marriage","tag-politics","tag-stanford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1gV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893","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=4893"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4900,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions\/4900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}