{"id":5062,"date":"2018-07-13T18:26:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T02:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2018-07-13T18:26:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T02:26:54","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/07\/13\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-160","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 160"},"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. 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. Democrats Are Wrong About Republicans. Republicans Are Wrong About Democrats.<\/a> (Perry Bacon Jr., FiveThirtyEight): \u201cBlacks made up about a quarter of the Democratic Party, but Republicans estimated the share at 46 percent. Republicans thought 38 percent of Democrats were gay, lesbian or bisexual, while the actual number was about 6 percent. Democrats estimated that 44 percent of Republicans make more than $250,000 a year. The actual share was 2 percent. People also overstated the numbers of these stereotypical groups within their own party \u2014 Democrats thought 29 percent of their fellow Democrats were gay, lesbian or bisexual \u2014 but they weren\u2019t off by as much as members of the other party.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. The Socialist Network<\/a> (Gilad Edelman, Washington Monthly): \u201cAt the heart of the split between liberals and socialists, at least in theory, is the question of what to do about capitalism. Liberals tend to see it as something that needs to be fixed. Socialists see it as something to be defeated. They say they do, anyway. As we\u2019ve seen, the Millennial socialist intellectuals aren\u2019t really calling for government takeover of industry.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Affirming Disadvantage<\/a> (John McWhorter, The American Interest): \u201cDo I oppose affirmative action? Not at all. But I suggest that what we now \u2018affirm\u2019 is disadvantage suffered by all kinds of people.\u201d The author is a linguistics professor at Columbia. He earned his Ph.D. at Stanford, btw.<\/li>\n
  4. Culture War As Class War: How Gay Rights Reinforce Elite Power<\/a> (Darel E. Paul, First Things): \u201cPrivileging the normalization of homosexuality rather than, say, racial integration allows elites to have their diversity cake and eat it, too.\u201d The author is a professor of political science at Williams College.<\/li>\n
  5. If You Care About NATO You Should <\/em>Care About German Military Readiness<\/a> (David French, National Review): \u201c\u2026Germany\u2019s military made headlines when it used broomsticks instead of machine guns during a NATO exercise because of a shortage of equipment. The lack of real weapons in the European Union\u2019s most populous nation was seen as symptomatic of how underfunded its military has long been.\u201d This is scary.<\/li>\n
  6. Learning From \u2018The Final Pagan Generation\u2019<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The American Conservative): this is a long and illuminating post. \u201cUnderstand that we, like the final pagan generation [in ancient Rome], might think we are fighting for tolerance, but our opponents are fighting for victory. We have to change our tactics.\u201d (emphasis removed)<\/li>\n
  7. President Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh to be a Supreme Court Justice. I\u2019ve got a lot of links here \u2014 just pick one or two.