{"id":5111,"date":"2018-08-10T16:41:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T00:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5111"},"modified":"2018-08-10T16:41:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T00:41:25","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-164","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/08\/10\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-164","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 164"},"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>Two con\u00adtrast\u00ading per\u00adspec\u00adtives on who is real\u00adly win\u00adning in Amer\u00adi\u00adca, both inde\u00adpen\u00addent\u00adly pub\u00adlished by smart peo\u00adple in the same high-pro\u00adfile mag\u00ada\u00adzine:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2018\/08\/why-the-left-is-so-afraid-of-jordan-peterson\/567110\/?utm_source=feed\">Why the Left Is So Afraid of Jor\u00addan Peter\u00adson<\/a> (Caitlin Flana\u00adgan, The Atlantic): \u201cThere are many legit\u00adi\u00admate rea\u00adsons to dis\u00adagree with him on a num\u00adber of sub\u00adjects, and many peo\u00adple of good will do. But there is no coher\u00adent rea\u00adson for the left\u2019s oblit\u00ader\u00adat\u00ading and irra\u00adtional hatred of Jor\u00addan Peter\u00adson. What, then, accounts for it? It is because the left, while it cur\u00adrent\u00adly seems ascen\u00addant in our hous\u00ades of cul\u00adture and art, has in fact entered its deca\u00addent late phase, and it is deeply vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2018\/08\/social-conservatives-kavanaugh\/566513\/\">Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives Are Scared, Even Under Trump<\/a> (Emma Green, The Atlantic): \u201cWhile lib\u00ader\u00adal activist groups paint Pres\u00adi\u00addent Don\u00adald Trump\u2019s Wash\u00ading\u00adton as an unmit\u00adi\u00adgat\u00aded for\u00adward march of con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive vic\u00adto\u00adries, con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive activist groups\u2014including Weber\u2019s\u2014don\u2019t nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly per\u00adceive things the same way. Rather, some of these groups see the next few years under Trump as a brief win\u00addow of oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to cre\u00adate defens\u00ades against a cul\u00adture that is mov\u00ading away from them. In parts of the con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive move\u00adment, the long-game strat\u00ade\u00adgy is to defend their posi\u00adtion by devolv\u00ading pow\u00ader away from the fed\u00ader\u00adal gov\u00adern\u00adment and the Supreme Court, using the momen\u00adtum of the Trump years to bat\u00adten down the hatch\u00ades against the inevitable cul\u00adtur\u00adal storms ahead.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/final-text-of-jewish-nation-state-bill-set-to-become-law\/\">Final text of Jew\u00adish nation-state law, approved by the Knes\u00adset ear\u00adly on July 19<\/a> (Raoul Wootliff, Times of Israel): \u201cThe law for the first time enshrines Israel as \u2018the nation\u00adal home of the Jew\u00adish peo\u00adple.\u2019 The law becomes one of the so-called Basic Laws, which, like a con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion, guide Israel\u2019s legal sys\u00adtem and are usu\u00adal\u00adly more dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to repeal than reg\u00adu\u00adlar laws.\u201d Unlike most arti\u00adcles, this includes the full (trans\u00adlat\u00aded) text of the law, and it is worth read\u00ading if you\u2019ve only seen it excerpt\u00aded. It\u2019s not long.\n<ul>\n<li>I believe this is the Israeli law that infu\u00adri\u00adat\u00aded Stan\u00adford stu\u00addent Hamzeh Daoud (see <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/08\/03\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-163\">last week\u2019s install\u00adment<\/a> for details).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/providencemag.com\/2018\/07\/israels-new-law-a-tale-of-two-nation-states\/\">Israel\u2019s New Law: A Tale of Two Nation-States<\/a> (Robert Nichol\u00adson, Prov\u00adi\u00addence): \u201cThe Pales\u00adtine Basic Law (2003) defines Pales\u00adtine as part of the Arab world and Arab uni\u00adty as a sin\u00adgu\u00adlar goal of the Pales\u00adtin\u00adian peo\u00adple. The law also defines Ara\u00adbic as Palestine\u2019s offi\u00adcial lan\u00adguage, Jerusalem as its offi\u00adcial cap\u00adi\u00adtal, and Islam as its offi\u00adcial reli\u00adgion. This basic law serves as a tem\u00adpo\u00adrary con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion for the Pales\u00adtin\u00adian Author\u00adi\u00adty until a sov\u00ader\u00adeign State of Pales\u00adtine is estab\u00adlished. In the mean\u00adtime, the law gov\u00aderns dai\u00adly life inside the West Bank and to some extent Gaza. On July 19 the Israeli Knes\u00adset passed a sim\u00adi\u00adlar basic law.\u201d This was incred\u00adi\u00adbly help\u00adful con\u00adtext to me.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2018\/july\/israel-jewish-nation-state-basic-law-christians-messianics.html\">Under the Law: Israeli Chris\u00adtians Wor\u00adry About Sec\u00adondary Sta\u00adtus in Jew\u00adish Nation-State<\/a> (Jayson Casper, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201c\u2018This law out\u00adlines that Israel\u2019s demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic val\u00adues are sec\u00adondary for non-Jews,\u2019 said Sha\u00addia Qubti, a Pales\u00adtin\u00adian evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal liv\u00ading in Nazareth. \u2018It sends a clear mes\u00adsage that my lan\u00adguage is not wel\u00adcome and con\u00adse\u00adquent\u00adly, nei\u00adther is my cul\u00adtur\u00adal and eth\u00adnic iden\u00adti\u00adty.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/07\/opinion\/alex-jones-infowars-facebook.html\">A Bet\u00adter Way to Ban Alex Jones<\/a> (David French, New York Times): \u201cThe good news is that tech com\u00adpa\u00adnies don\u2019t have to rely on vague, mal\u00adleable and hot\u00adly con\u00adtest\u00aded def\u00adi\u00adn\u00adi\u00adtions of hate speech to deal with con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adcy the\u00ado\u00adrists like Mr. Jones. The far bet\u00adter option would be to pro\u00adhib\u00adit libel or slan\u00adder on their plat\u00adforms\u2026. Pri\u00advate cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtions can ban who\u00adev\u00ader they like. But if com\u00adpa\u00adnies like Face\u00adbook are eager to nav\u00adi\u00adgate speech con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsies in good faith, they would do well to learn from the cen\u00adturies of legal devel\u00adop\u00adments in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan law. When cre\u00adat\u00ading a true mar\u00adket\u00adplace of ideas, why not let the First Amend\u00adment be your guide?\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>His fol\u00adlow-up: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/first-amendment-solution-twitter-wars\/\">A First Amend\u00adment Peace Plan for the Twit\u00adter Wars<\/a> (David French, Nation\u00adal Review): \u201cAs I dug down into objec\u00adtions to my pro\u00adposed First Amend\u00adment frame\u00adwork, I often found that the objec\u00adtions were ulti\u00admate\u00adly based on a desire to dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adnate on the basis of view\u00adpoint, on a desire to use the pow\u00ader of the plat\u00adform to priv\u00adi\u00adlege some voic\u00ades and sup\u00adpress oth\u00aders.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/religionandpolitics.org\/2018\/08\/07\/a-kind-of-homelessness-evangelicals-of-color-in-the-trump-era\/\">A Kind of Home\u00adless\u00adness: Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals of Col\u00ador in the Trump Era<\/a> (Melani McAl\u00adis\u00adter, Reli\u00adgion &amp; Pol\u00adi\u00adtics): \u201cYet the head\u00adlines about \u2018evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal\u2019 sup\u00adport for the pres\u00adi\u00addent and his agen\u00adda mean that evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals of col\u00ador can seem to be an invis\u00adi\u00adble community\u2014rarely acknowl\u00adedged by jour\u00adnal\u00adists even when they go to the same church\u00ades or claim a sim\u00adi\u00adlar the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy. White evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals are numer\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly dominant\u2014although declining\u2014but their opin\u00adions dis\u00adpro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00adate\u00adly dom\u00adi\u00adnate U.S. media report\u00ading on how the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Protes\u00adtants think, vote, and believe. At one lev\u00adel, the racial dif\u00adfer\u00adence is emi\u00adnent\u00adly pre\u00addictable. Sure\u00adly the white\u00adness of white evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals is cru\u00adcial to under\u00adstand\u00ading their polit\u00adi\u00adcal beliefs and their vot\u00ading pat\u00adterns. As Janelle Wong shows in her new book, <em>Immi\u00adgrants, Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals, and Pol\u00adi\u00adtics in an Era of Demo\u00adgraph\u00adic Change<\/em>, although evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals of any giv\u00aden race are more con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive than the gen\u00ader\u00adal pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion of that race, evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals of col\u00ador over\u00adall are far less con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive than white evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals. Indeed, they are less con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive than white peo\u00adple over\u00adall.\u201d The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Stud\u00adies and Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Affairs at George Wash\u00ading\u00adton Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/amp\/article\/565772\/?__twitter_impression=true\">How Trump Rad\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adized ICE<\/a> (Franklin Foer, The Atlantic): \u201cBy the begin\u00adning of Barack Obama\u2019s sec\u00adond term, immi\u00adgra\u00adtion had become one of the high\u00adest pri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adties of fed\u00ader\u00adal law enforce\u00adment: Half of all fed\u00ader\u00adal pros\u00ade\u00adcu\u00adtions were for immi\u00adgra\u00adtion-relat\u00aded crimes. In 2012, Con\u00adgress appro\u00adpri\u00adat\u00aded $18 bil\u00adlion for immi\u00adgra\u00adtion enforce\u00adment. It spent $14 bil\u00adlion for all the oth\u00ader major crim\u00adi\u00adnal law-enforce\u00adment agen\u00adcies <em>com\u00adbined<\/em>: the FBI; the Drug Enforce\u00adment Admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion; the Secret Ser\u00advice; the Bureau of Alco\u00adhol, Tobac\u00adco, Firearms, and Explo\u00adsives; and the U.S. Mar\u00adshals Ser\u00advice.\u201d ICE is much, much big\u00adger than I real\u00adized. This is a real\u00adly impor\u00adtant arti\u00adcle.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/08\/opinion\/oh-the-humanities.html\">Oh, The Human\u00adi\u00adties!<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201c\u2026the years since the Great Reces\u00adsion have been \u2018bru\u00adtal for almost every major in the human\u00adi\u00adties.\u2019 They\u2019ve also been bad for \u2018social sci\u00adence fields that most close\u00adly resem\u00adble human\u00adis\u00adtic ones \u2014 soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy, anthro\u00adpol\u00ado\u00adgy, inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal rela\u00adtions and polit\u00adi\u00adcal sci\u00adence.\u2019 Mean\u00adwhile the sci\u00adences and engi\u00adneer\u00ading have gained at the expense of human\u00adism\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2018\/august\/bethel-church-carr-fire-redding-social-media-theodicy.html\">Bethel Church Sur\u00advives Red\u00adding Carr Fire, But Still Faces Heat<\/a> (Grif\u00adfin Paul Jack\u00adson, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cFor Bethel\u2019s part, staff said the church could not act as an evac\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion zone because of its prox\u00adim\u00adi\u00adty to the blaze and because there is a sin\u00adgle entry and exit point to the cam\u00adpus, which is itself sur\u00adround\u00aded by brush. The Red Cross said Bethel offered to be an evac\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion site, but was turned down because of the campus\u2019s near\u00adness to the fire\u2026. The church has, how\u00adev\u00ader, flexed its con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable min\u00adistry mus\u00adcle and finan\u00adcial resources, encour\u00adag\u00ading dona\u00adtions to aid relief efforts. Bethel is also part\u00adner\u00ading with the Red Cross and the Sal\u00adva\u00adtion Army in response to the Carr fire, Far\u00adrel\u00adly said.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: Osteen\u2019s church was sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adly crit\u00adi\u00adcized after Hur\u00adri\u00adcane Har\u00advey, also with what seem to me to be scant fac\u00adtu\u00adal grounds. Dis\u00adcussed back <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/09\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-116\">in vol\u00adume 116<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Also (ten\u00adu\u00adous\u00adly) relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chuckdevore\/2018\/07\/30\/californias-devastating-fires-are-man-caused-but-not-in-the-way-they-tell-us\/#20f75dcc70af\">Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adni\u00ada\u2019s Dev\u00adas\u00adtat\u00ading Fires Are Man-Caused \u2014 But Not In The Way They Tell Us<\/a> (Chuck DeVore, Forbes): \u201c In the 1850s and 1860s, the typ\u00adi\u00adcal Sier\u00adra land\u00adscape was of open fields of grass punc\u00adtu\u00adat\u00aded by iso\u00adlat\u00aded pine stands and a few scat\u00adtered oak trees. The first branch\u00ades on the pine trees start\u00aded about 20 feet up\u2014lower branch\u00ades hav\u00ading been burned off by low-inten\u00adsi\u00adty grass\u00adfires. California\u2019s Native Amer\u00adi\u00adcan pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion had for years shaped this land\u00adscape with fire to encour\u00adage the grass\u00adlands and boost the game ani\u00admal pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion. As the Gold Rush remade mod\u00adern Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia, tim\u00adber was har\u00advest\u00aded and replant\u00aded. Fires were sup\u00adpressed because they threat\u00adened homes as well as burned up a valu\u00adable resource. The land\u00adscape filled in with trees, but the trees were har\u00advest\u00aded every 30 to 50 years. In the 1990s, how\u00adev\u00ader, that cycle began to be dis\u00adrupt\u00aded with increas\u00ading\u00adly bur\u00adden\u00adsome reg\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions. The tim\u00adber har\u00advest cycle slowed, and, in some areas, stopped com\u00adplete\u00adly, espe\u00adcial\u00adly on the almost 60% of Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia for\u00adest land owned by the fed\u00ader\u00adal gov\u00adern\u00adment.\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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gkllFaRbGxc\">Erik Tait per\u00adforms a ridicu\u00adlous card trick<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-qkyOuj5TF4\">Rebec\u00adca Her\u00adrera with a very clever men\u00adtal\u00adism trick<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2030\/\">Vot\u00ading Soft\u00adware<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/to-vote-or-not-to-vote\">To Vote Or Not To Vote<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ThqetuP?ref=hvper.com&amp;utm_source=hvper.com&amp;utm_medium=website\">A fun\u00adny face com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adtion<\/a> (imgur) \u2014 wait for it. Total\u00adly worth\u00adwhile. About 1 minute long.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/study-humanity-just-a-few-more-bans-away-from-only-having-good-opinions-on-the-internet\/\">Study: Human\u00adi\u00adty Just A Few More Bans Away From Only Hav\u00ading Good Opin\u00adions On The Inter\u00adnet<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uJv2nxh1ECA\">The Ulti\u00admate South\u00adern Com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adtion<\/a> (It\u2019s a South\u00adern Thing, YouTube)<\/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=\"http:\/\/www.asa3.org\/ASA\/PSCF\/2003\/PSCF12-03Hill.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mak\u00ading Sense of the Num\u00adbers of Gen\u00ade\u00adsis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> [pdf link] (Car\u00adol Hill, Per\u00adspec\u00adtives on Sci\u00adence and the Chris\u00adt\u00adian Faith): \u201cJoseph and Joshua were each record\u00aded as dying at age 110\u2014a num\u00adber con\u00adsid\u00adered \u2018per\u00adfect\u2019 by the Egyp\u00adtians. In ancient Egypt\u00adian doc\u00adtrine, the phrase \u2018he died aged 110\u2019 was actu\u00adal\u00adly an epi\u00adtaph com\u00admem\u00ado\u00adrat\u00ading a life that had been lived self\u00adless\u00adly and had result\u00aded in out\u00adstand\u00ading social and moral ben\u00ade\u00adfit for oth\u00aders. And so for both Joseph and Joshua, who came out of the Egypt\u00adian cul\u00adture, quot\u00ading this age was actu\u00adal\u00adly a trib\u00adute to their char\u00adac\u00adter. But, to be described as \u2018dying at age 110\u2019 bore no nec\u00ades\u00adsary rela\u00adtion\u00adship to the actu\u00adal time of an individual\u2019s life span.\u201d You will not agree with every\u00adthing in this arti\u00adcle, but it is full of fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading insights. (first shared in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/05\/27\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-51\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol\u00adume 51<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/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>If this was for\u00adward\u00aded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/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 Two con\u00adtrast\u00ading per\u00adspec\u00adtives on who is real\u00adly win\u00adning in Amer\u00adi\u00adca, both inde\u00adpen\u00addent\u00adly pub\u00adlished by \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/08\/10\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-164\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 164\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":"Why the left and the right both feel like they're losing, some news on Israel, and free speech. 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