{"id":5089,"date":"2018-07-27T08:24:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2018-07-27T08:24:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:24:29","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/07\/27\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-162","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 162"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. How to Wit\u00adness to a Dis\u00adtract\u00aded World<\/a> (O. Alan Noble, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cLet me give you a sce\u00adnario. I believe it\u2019s entire\u00adly pos\u00adsi\u00adble today to sit down with a non-believ\u00ading friend and have a pas\u00adsion\u00adate, lengthy con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion about the gospel and nev\u00ader plant a seed deeply. Because as soon as you both rise from the table, he pulls out his phone and checks Face\u00adbook or responds to a text from his wife\u2026. It was all a kind of rhetor\u00adi\u00adcal dance or game that we play. And the pri\u00adma\u00adry pur\u00adpose of the dance is not to win over the oth\u00ader per\u00adson but to define your iden\u00adti\u00adty. The game is called expres\u00adsive indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adism. And most of us play it.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. A Glob\u00adal Guide To State-Spon\u00adsored Trolling<\/a> (Michael Riley, Lau\u00adren Etter, and Bib\u00adhu\u00addat\u00adta Prad\u00adhan, Bloomberg): \u201c\u2018Peo\u00adple some\u00adtimes wor\u00adry that Azer\u00adbai\u00adjan will shut down Face\u00adbook,\u2019 said Katy Pearce, a com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtions pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Wash\u00ading\u00adton who has stud\u00adied the plat\u00adfor\u00adm\u2019s use in that coun\u00adtry. \u2018Why would it? Face\u00adbook is the most effec\u00adtive tool of con\u00adtrol the gov\u00adern\u00adment has.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Hous\u00ading Costs Reduce The Returns To Edu\u00adca\u00adtion<\/a> (Tyler Cowen, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cThe return to edu\u00adca\u00adtion, for exam\u00adple, has increased in the Unit\u00aded States but it\u2019s less well appre\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded that in order to earn high wages col\u00adlege edu\u00adcat\u00aded work\u00aders must increas\u00ading\u00adly live in expen\u00adsive cities. One con\u00adse\u00adquence is that the net col\u00adlege wage pre\u00admi\u00adum is not as large as it appears and inequal\u00adi\u00adty has been over-esti\u00admat\u00aded.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. The many deaths of lib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adism<\/a> (Daniel Cole and Aure\u00adlian Craiu\u00adtu, Aeon): \u201cThe prob\u00adlem for any\u00adone declar\u00ading the death of lib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adism is that it has not one but sev\u00ader\u00adal pil\u00adlars and dimen\u00adsions: legal, polit\u00adi\u00adcal, eco\u00adnom\u00adic and moral (or reli\u00adgious). The weak\u00aden\u00ading or dis\u00adap\u00adpear\u00adance of one or two lib\u00ader\u00adal pil\u00adlars or tenets would not be enough to declare lib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adism as a whole dead.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. Epis\u00adtoc\u00adra\u00adcy: a polit\u00adi\u00adcal theorist\u2019s case for let\u00adting only the informed vote<\/a> (Sean Illing inter\u00adview\u00ading Jason Bren\u00adnan, Vox): \u201cI like to say I\u2019m a fan of democ\u00adra\u00adcy, and I\u2019m also a fan of Iron Maid\u00aden, but I think Iron Maid\u00aden has quite a few albums that are ter\u00adri\u00adble \u2014 and I think democ\u00adra\u00adcy is kind of like this. It\u2019s great, it\u2019s the best sys\u00adtem we have so far, but we shouldn\u2019t accept that it can\u2019t be improved.\u201d The title is inac\u00adcu\u00adrate \u2014 Bren\u00adnan goes so far as to favor extend\u00ading the right to vote to chil\u00addren.<\/li>\n
  6. The Trump Admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion Con\u00advenes the \u2018Super Bowl\u2019 of Reli\u00adgious Free\u00addom<\/a> (Emma Green, The Atlantic): \u201cThis min\u00adis\u00adte\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal, which is real\u00adly just a fan\u00adcy word for \u2018big meet\u00ading,\u2019 could be inter\u00adpret\u00aded as the unveil\u00ading of an ele\u00adment of the Trump administration\u2019s for\u00adeign-pol\u00adi\u00adcy strat\u00ade\u00adgy. For the last three days, del\u00ade\u00adga\u00adtions from around the world have gath\u00adered to hear vic\u00adtims of reli\u00adgious per\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adtion share their sto\u00adries. Amer\u00adi\u00adcan offi\u00adcials have declared in no uncer\u00adtain terms that they believe the Unit\u00aded States should evan\u00adge\u00adlize reli\u00adgious lib\u00ader\u00adty around the world, and that democ\u00adra\u00adcy is built on a foun\u00adda\u00adtion of free\u00addom in faith.\u201d\n