{"id":5186,"date":"2018-10-05T06:51:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5186"},"modified":"2018-10-05T06:51:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T14:51:14","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-172","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/10\/05\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-172","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 172"},"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<p>I did\u00adn\u2019t think I\u2019d be able to send the email this week because I\u2019m preach\u00ading in rur\u00adal Alas\u00adka with\u00adout reli\u00adable WiFi, but I was able to grab a bit this morn\u00ading. As a result, this edi\u00adtion feels a bit big\u00adger than nor\u00admal to me \u2014 com\u00adpil\u00ading the list is quick because when\u00adev\u00ader I read a good arti\u00adcle I throw it on the pile, but edit\u00ading it down takes time I don\u2019t have today. So here you go. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li>First, a bit about Supreme Court nom\u00adi\u00adnee Brett Kavanaugh. I\u2019ve had less time than nor\u00admal for read\u00ading this week, so I am cer\u00adtain there are inter\u00adest\u00ading and insight\u00adful arti\u00adcles I nev\u00ader stum\u00adbled upon. Send me things you think I missed! Of one thing I am con\u00advinced: the lev\u00adel of fury on both sides over this nom\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion is off-the-charts, and both sides seem to under\u00ades\u00adti\u00admate just how out\u00adraged the oth\u00ader side is.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/28\/opinion\/kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-supreme-court.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">Only the Truth Can Save Us Now<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201ceven more than before the hear\u00adings, my feel\u00ading after over eight hours in pur\u00adga\u00adto\u00adry is that <em>I still real\u00adly want to know the truth.<\/em> And sur\u00adpris\u00ading\u00adly, I left the long day of tes\u00adti\u00admo\u00adny con\u00advinced that for all the years that have passed since the sum\u00admer of 1982, the truth might actu\u00adal\u00adly be acces\u00adsi\u00adble, and there are obvi\u00adous ques\u00adtions and avenues of inquiry, unpur\u00adsued by both par\u00adties, that could bring us clos\u00ader to under\u00adstand\u00ading which of the two wit\u00adness\u00ades were telling the real truth.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2018\/10\/why-i-wouldnt-confirm-brett-kavanaugh\/571936\/\">I Know Brett Kavanaugh, but I Wouldn\u2019t Con\u00adfirm Him<\/a> (Ben\u00adjamin Wittes, The Atlantic): \u201cFaced with cred\u00adi\u00adble alle\u00adga\u00adtions of seri\u00adous mis\u00adcon\u00adduct against him, Kavanaugh behaved in a fash\u00adion unac\u00adcept\u00adable in a jus\u00adtice, it seems pre\u00adpon\u00adder\u00adant\u00adly like\u00adly he was not can\u00addid with the Sen\u00adate Judi\u00adcia\u00adry Com\u00admit\u00adtee on impor\u00adtant mat\u00adters, and the risk of Ford\u2019s alle\u00adga\u00adtions being clos\u00ader to the truth than his denial of them is sim\u00adply too high to place him on the Supreme Court\u2026. As much as I admire Kavanaugh, my con\u00adscience would not per\u00admit me to vote for him.\u201d This makes the most thought\u00adful case against Kavanaugh. See last week\u2019s edi\u00adtion for a sim\u00adi\u00adlar piece that comes to the oppo\u00adsite con\u00adclu\u00adsion.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/389821761\/Mitchell-Memo#from_embed\">The Rachel Mitchell Memo<\/a> -\u201cA \u2018he said, she said\u2019 case is incred\u00adi\u00adbly dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to prove. But this case is even weak\u00ader than that. Dr. Ford iden\u00adti\u00adfied oth\u00ader wit\u00adness\u00ades to the event, and those wit\u00adness\u00ades either refut\u00aded her alle\u00adga\u00adtions or failed to cor\u00adrob\u00ado\u00adrate them\u2026.I do not think that a rea\u00adson\u00adable pros\u00ade\u00adcu\u00adtor would bring this case based on the evi\u00addence before the Com\u00admit\u00adtee. Nor do I believe that this evi\u00addence is suf\u00adfi\u00adcient to sat\u00adis\u00adfy the pre\u00adpon\u00adder\u00adance-of-the-evi\u00addence stan\u00addard.\u201d This is the report writ\u00adten by the sex-crimes pros\u00ade\u00adcu\u00adtor who inter\u00adviewed Dr. Ford on the Repub\u00adli\u00adcans\u2019 behalf in the Sen\u00adate hear\u00ading.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2018\/09\/kavanaugh-supreme-court\/571462\/\">A Non-scan\u00addalous, Non-ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Case Against Brett Kavanaugh<\/a> (Conor Frieder\u00ads\u00addorf, The Atlantic): \u201cI do wor\u00adry about a Supreme Court where lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly all nine mem\u00adbers received their respec\u00adtive legal edu\u00adca\u00adtion at either Har\u00advard or Yale Law.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2018\/10\/conservative-women-kavanaugh-ford\/572023\/\">Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Women Are Angry About Kavanaugh\u2014And They Think Oth\u00ader Vot\u00aders Are, Too<\/a> (Emma Green, The Atlantic): \u201cThese women are infu\u00adri\u00adat\u00aded with the way the sex\u00adu\u00adal-assault alle\u00adga\u00adtions against the Supreme Court nom\u00adi\u00adnee Brett Kavanaugh have been han\u00addled. They are not con\u00advinced by Ford or any oth\u00ader woman who has come for\u00adward. They resent the impli\u00adca\u00adtion that all women should sup\u00adport the accusers. And they believe that this scan\u00addal will ulti\u00admate\u00adly hurt the cause of women who have been sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly assault\u00aded. Above all, these women, and the women they know, are ready to lash out against Democ\u00adrats in the upcom\u00ading midterm elec\u00adtions.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2018\/09\/the-impunity-of-brett-kavanaughs-binge-drinking\/571435\/\">The Per\u00adni\u00adcious Dou\u00adble Stan\u00addards Around Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s Drink\u00ading<\/a> (Megan Gar\u00adber, The Atlantic): \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of talk about dou\u00adble stan\u00addards of late\u2014rightfully so\u2014and here is one more: the assump\u00adtion that alco\u00adhol is one thing for men and anoth\u00ader for women.\u201d This one comes rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by an alum\u00adnus. For the record, you should not get drunk regard\u00adless of your gen\u00adder. Eph\u00adesians 5:18, \u201cDo not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauch\u00adery. Instead, be filled with the Spir\u00adit.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/10\/03\/654015874\/poll-amid-kavanaugh-confirmation-battle-democratic-enthusiasm-edge-evaporates\">Poll: Amid Kavanaugh Con\u00adfir\u00adma\u00adtion Bat\u00adtle, Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic Enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm Edge Evap\u00ado\u00adrates<\/a> (Domeni\u00adco Mon\u00adta\u00adnaro, NPR): \u201cWhile Democ\u00adrats and Repub\u00adli\u00adcans are now equal\u00adly enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adtic about the midterms, the sto\u00adry is very dif\u00adfer\u00adent for key Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic base groups and inde\u00adpen\u00addents. While 82 per\u00adcent of Democ\u00adrats say the midterms are very impor\u00adtant, that\u2019s true of just 60 per\u00adcent of peo\u00adple under 30, 61 per\u00adcent of Lati\u00adnos and 65 per\u00adcent of inde\u00adpen\u00addents.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>On the broad\u00ader impli\u00adca\u00adtions of the Ford\/Kavanaugh dra\u00adma.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2018-10-01\/kavanaugh-hearings-reveal-other-social-crises?cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-view&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_content=view\">Six Broad\u00ader Insights From the Kavanaugh Saga So Far<\/a> (Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg): \u201cMost men are not abusers, yet very large num\u00adbers of women have been abused. So if a man is an abuser, there is a good chance he has abused a fair num\u00adber of women. That means many well-mean\u00ading men expe\u00adri\u00adence sex\u00adu\u00adal abuse as a rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly rare phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnon. They haven\u2019t done it, and most of their male friends haven\u2019t either. At the same time, most women have abuse, rape or #MeToo sto\u00adries, and they expe\u00adri\u00adence these phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adna as rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly com\u00admon and often life-alter\u00ading. Prob\u00ada\u00adbly they also have heard mul\u00adti\u00adple such sto\u00adries from their female friends. This struc\u00adtur\u00adal asym\u00adme\u00adtry of per\u00adspec\u00adtives is cru\u00adcial to under\u00adstand\u00ading the dis\u00adcourse and the often fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal dif\u00adfer\u00adences in opin\u00adion.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/29\/opinion\/sunday\/kavanaugh-feminism-conservatism.html\">An Age Divid\u00aded By Sex<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cthe cul\u00adture war as we\u2019ve known it since has not been a sim\u00adple clash of con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives who want to repress and lib\u00ader\u00adals who want to eman\u00adci\u00adpate. Rather it\u2019s been an ongo\u00ading argu\u00adment between two forces \u2014 fem\u00adi\u00adnists and reli\u00adgious con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives \u2014 that <em>both<\/em> want to remor\u00adal\u00adize Amer\u00adi\u00adcan soci\u00adety, albeit in very dif\u00adfer\u00adent ways.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/03\/opinion\/kavanaugh-ivy-league-meritocracy.html\">The Mer\u00adi\u00adtoc\u00adra\u00adcy Against Itself<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cthe whole mer\u00adi\u00adto\u00adcrat\u00adic game\u2026 depends on a repro\u00adduc\u00adtion of priv\u00adi\u00adlege that pre\u00adtends to be some\u00adthing else, some\u00adthing fair and open and all about hard work and just deserts. In this game the peo\u00adple whose priv\u00adi\u00adlege is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly obvi\u00adous, the board\u00ading school\u00aders and New York toffs and Bethes\u00adda coun\u00adtry club\u00adbers, play a cru\u00adcial\u00adly impor\u00adtant role. It\u2019s not just that their par\u00adents pay full freight and keep the eco\u00adnom\u00adics of tuition viable for every\u00adone. It\u2019s that the eliter-than-elite kids them\u00adselves help cre\u00adate a pro\u00advi\u00adsion\u00adal inside-the-Ivy hier\u00adar\u00adchy that lets all the oth\u00ader priv\u00adi\u00adleged kids, the ones who are mere\u00adly upper-upper mid\u00addle class, feel the spur of resent\u00adment and ambi\u00adtion that keeps us run\u00adning, keeps us com\u00adpet\u00ading, keeps us sharp and awful in all the ways that mer\u00adi\u00adtoc\u00adra\u00adcy requires.\u201d This is not real\u00adly about Kavanaugh, but it is cer\u00adtain\u00adly about the world most of you inhab\u00adit at Stan\u00adford.<\/li>\n<li>See this insight\u00adful response: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/10\/brett-kavanaugh-limits-of-social-class-privilege-for-conservatives\/\">Brett Kavanaugh and the Lim\u00adits of Social-Class Priv\u00adi\u00adlege for Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives<\/a> (David French, Nation\u00adal Review): \u201cThe social bat\u00adtles of the elite col\u00adlege rep\u00adre\u00adsent the squab\u00adbling of men and women at the tip of the priv\u00adi\u00adlege spear in the most pow\u00ader\u00adful nation in the his\u00adto\u00adry of the plan\u00adet. But as real as these pet\u00adty resent\u00adments were and are, they pale in com\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adson to the most impor\u00adtant thing. They miss the real roots of Ivy rage. Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s true sin isn\u2019t his con\u00adnec\u00adtions, his pop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty, or his prep school. His true sin is that he\u2019s a con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive. And now he\u2019s a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar kind of con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive \u2014 a con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive who mat\u00adters, a con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive who will have the pow\u00ader (and might actu\u00adal\u00adly have the con\u00advic\u00adtions) to threat\u00aden one or more of the most sacred ele\u00adments of pro\u00adgres\u00adsive jurispru\u00addence. He can poten\u00adtial\u00adly affect the law and the cul\u00adture in a pro\u00adfound way. So what we\u2019re watch\u00ading is the sys\u00adtem\u00adat\u00adic <em>revo\u00adca\u00adtion<\/em> of his elite priv\u00adi\u00adlege.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justin-taylor\/one-best-speeches-will-ever-hear-senate-floor\/\">One of the Best Speech\u00ades You Will Ever Hear from the Sen\u00adate Floor<\/a> (Justin Tay\u00adlor, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cI believe that we have a wide\u00adspread lega\u00adcy of sex\u00adu\u00adal assault in this coun\u00adtry. I believe we don\u2019t have much of a shared sex\u00adu\u00adal eth\u00adic right now\u2014and we haven\u2019t for quite some time\u2014and I think hor\u00adri\u00adble stuff has hap\u00adpened, and con\u00adtin\u00adues to hap\u00adpen. I\u2019ve wept with the vic\u00adtims of sex\u00adu\u00adal assault, and I believe the advo\u00adca\u00adcy groups\u2019 data that between one-fifth and one-third of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan women have been sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly assault\u00aded at some point in their lives. And giv\u00aden that most women have many oth\u00ader impor\u00adtant women in their lives\u2014a mom, and a daugh\u00adter, sis\u00adters, and a cou\u00adple of close friends\u2014it means that the over\u00adwhelm\u00ading major\u00adi\u00adty of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan women have been deeply affect\u00aded, deeply hurt, by the tragedy of sex\u00adu\u00adal vio\u00adlence.\u201d The speech is by Ben Sasse, a for\u00admer sem\u00adi\u00adnary pres\u00adi\u00addent now serv\u00ading as a sen\u00ada\u00adtor from Nebras\u00adka.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2018\/10\/rage-politics-on-the-left\">Rage Pol\u00adi\u00adtics On The Left<\/a> (R. R. Reno, First Things): \u201cOf the utopi\u00adan dreams of the 1960s, only the sex\u00adu\u00adal rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion has attained cul\u00adtur\u00adal dom\u00adi\u00adnance. To a great degree, we as a soci\u00adety believe in the promis\u00ades of that rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion: that sex can be safe; that men and women can enjoy sex\u00adu\u00adal free\u00addom to the same degree and in the same way; that sex need have noth\u00ading to do with chil\u00addren; that sex is pure\u00adly pri\u00advate. These promis\u00ades are back\u00adstopped by abor\u00adtion, the con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion\u00adal sta\u00adtus of which fuels the urgency sur\u00adround\u00ading the Kavanaugh appoint\u00adment.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar vein: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/28\/opinion\/kavanaugh-blasey-testimony-believe.html\">Believ\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty Is The Road To Nation\u00adal Ruin<\/a> (Bret Stephens, New York Times): \u201cWhen pol\u00adi\u00adtics becomes sole\u00adly a mat\u00adter of \u2018I believe\u2019 ver\u00adsus \u2018I believe,\u2019 it descends into a raw con\u00adtest for pow\u00ader. His\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, it\u2019s been fas\u00adcists, not lib\u00ader\u00adals, who tend to win such con\u00adtests.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/voices\/2018\/10\/02\/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-reckoning-column\/1485754002\/\">I was sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly assault\u00aded and thought it was my fault. It\u2019s past time for a 1980s reck\u00adon\u00ading.<\/a> (Kirsten Pow\u00aders, USA Today): \u201cThere is a prob\u00adlem, though, and it\u2019s this: The cul\u00adture failed to give us the lan\u00adguage to describe such vio\u00adla\u00adtions, and made us feel that talk\u00ading about what hap\u00adpened to an author\u00adi\u00adty fig\u00adure would only make things worse for us. For\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly for women, what hap\u00adpened in the 1980s isn\u2019t stay\u00ading in the 1980s. It\u2019s a reck\u00adon\u00ading that is well over\u00addue.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2018\/10\/01\/steelmanning-the-nimbys\/\">Steel\u00adman\u00adning the NIM\u00adBYs<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Slate Star Codex): \u201cSan Fran\u00adcis\u00adco is easy to hate. Even a lot of the peo\u00adple who already live there hate it. They hate the streets piled with dis\u00adcard\u00aded nee\u00addles and human waste. They hate the traf\u00adfic (fifth worst in the world) and the crime (third most prop\u00ader\u00adty crime in the US). They hate liv\u00ading five peo\u00adple to a three-bed\u00adroom apart\u00adment. They hate hav\u00ading aggres\u00adsive peo\u00adple scream incom\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsi\u00adble things at them on the side\u00adwalk. They hate the var\u00adi\u00adous mutu\u00adal\u00adly hos\u00adtile tran\u00adsit sys\u00adtems that inter\u00adlock in a sys\u00adtem I would call byzan\u00adtine except that at least you could get around medieval Con\u00adstan\u00adtino\u00adple with\u00adout check\u00ading whether the Muni and Cal\u00adTrain were mys\u00adte\u00adri\u00adous\u00adly fail\u00ading to con\u00adnect to each oth\u00ader today. They hate that every\u00adone else in the city hates them, from vis\u00adi\u00adble KILL ALL TECHIES graf\u00adfi\u00adti on their com\u00admute to work, to a sub\u00adtle mood of seething resent\u00adment from every\u00adone they meet. They hate the omnipresent bill\u00adboards expect\u00ading them to have strong opin\u00adions on apps. I\u2019m not say\u00ading every\u00adone in San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco hates it. There are peo\u00adple who like all sorts of things. Some peo\u00adple like being tied up, whipped, and elec\u00adtro\u00adcut\u00aded by strangers. And a dis\u00adpro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00adate num\u00adber of these peo\u00adple live in San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco. I am just say\u00ading this isn\u2019t a coin\u00adci\u00addence.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Steel\u00adman\u00adning refers to the oppo\u00adsite of attack\u00ading a straw man argu\u00adment. Instead of mak\u00ading your opponent\u2019s argu\u00adment weak\u00ader, you strength\u00aden it as much as you can.<\/li>\n<li>Coun\u00adter\u00adpoint: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.econlib.org\/yimby\/\">YIMBY!<\/a> (Scott Sum\u00adn\u00ader, Econ\u00adLib): \u201cThink of it this way. Lots of par\u00adents don\u2019t let their kids play out\u00adside by them\u00adselves, because oth\u00ader par\u00adents don\u2019t let their kids play out\u00adside. If you choose to be the excep\u00adtion, then (unlike dur\u00ading the 1960s) your kid is the only one avail\u00adable for pedophiles to prey upon. Lots of the anti-NIM\u00adBY feel\u00ading comes from a false per\u00adcep\u00adtion of what the real estate mar\u00adket would look like if com\u00adplete lais\u00adsez-faire were adopt\u00aded, based on the cur\u00adrent dis\u00adtort\u00aded mar\u00adket.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalaffairs.com\/publications\/detail\/the-disappearing-conservative-professor\">The Dis\u00adap\u00adpear\u00ading Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor<\/a> (Jon A. Shields, Nation\u00adal Affairs): \u201cPro\u00adfes\u00adsors are even less tol\u00ader\u00adant of evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals, whom they asso\u00adciate with social con\u00adser\u00advatism. Near\u00adly 60% of anthro\u00adpol\u00ado\u00adgists, 50% of lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture pro\u00adfes\u00adsors, 39% of polit\u00adi\u00adcal sci\u00aden\u00adtists and soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgists, 34% of phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy pro\u00adfes\u00adsors, and 29% of his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adans say they would be less inclined to hire evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals. Yancey fur\u00adther found that female pro\u00adfes\u00adsors expressed more anti-con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive bias than men, per\u00adhaps in part because female pro\u00adfes\u00adsors tend to be more pro\u00adgres\u00adsive than their male peers.\u201d The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of gov\u00adern\u00adment at Clare\u00admont McKen\u00adna.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2018-10-04\/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies\">The Big Hack: How Chi\u00adna Used a Tiny Chip to Infil\u00adtrate U.S. Com\u00adpa\u00adnies<\/a> (Jor\u00addan Robert\u00adson and Michael Rieey, Bloomberg): \u201cNest\u00aded on the servers\u2019 moth\u00ader\u00adboards, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much big\u00adger than a grain of rice, that wasn\u2019t part of the boards\u2019 orig\u00adi\u00adnal design. Ama\u00adzon report\u00aded the dis\u00adcov\u00adery to U.S. author\u00adi\u00adties, send\u00ading a shud\u00adder through the intel\u00adli\u00adgence com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty. Elemental\u2019s servers could be found in Depart\u00adment of Defense data cen\u00adters, the CIA\u2019s drone oper\u00ada\u00adtions, and the onboard net\u00adworks of Navy war\u00adships. And Ele\u00admen\u00adtal was just one of hun\u00addreds of Super\u00admi\u00adcro cus\u00adtomers. Dur\u00ading the ensu\u00ading top-secret probe, which remains open more than three years lat\u00ader, inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtors deter\u00admined that the chips allowed the attack\u00aders to cre\u00adate a stealth door\u00adway into any net\u00adwork that includ\u00aded the altered machines. Mul\u00adti\u00adple peo\u00adple famil\u00adiar with the mat\u00adter say inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtors found that the chips had been insert\u00aded at fac\u00adto\u00adries run by man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00ading sub\u00adcon\u00adtrac\u00adtors in Chi\u00adna.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>This bit made me chuck\u00adle: \u201cTwo of Elemental\u2019s biggest ear\u00adly clients were the Mor\u00admon church, which used the tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy to beam ser\u00admons to con\u00adgre\u00adga\u00adtions around the world, and the adult film indus\u00adtry, which did not.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/29\/opinion\/sunday\/christians-politics-belief.html\">How Do Chris\u00adtians Fit Into the Two-Par\u00adty Sys\u00adtem? They Don\u2019t<\/a> (Tim Keller, New York Times): \u201cChris\u00adtians are pushed toward two main options. One is to with\u00addraw and try to be apo\u00adlit\u00adi\u00adcal. The sec\u00adond is to assim\u00adi\u00adlate and ful\u00adly adopt one party\u2019s whole pack\u00adage in order to have your place at the table. Nei\u00adther of these options is valid.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/26\/reader-center\/evangelical-millennials.html\">Are You a Young Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal? We Want to Hear From You Ahead of the Midterm Elec\u00adtions<\/a> (Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth Dias, New York Times): \u201cIf you are an evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal born after 1980, I\u2019d love to hear about the rela\u00adtion\u00adship between your faith and pol\u00adi\u00adtics today. And if you grew up evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal and your views are shift\u00ading, feel free to share that, too. We may pub\u00adlish a selec\u00adtion of the respons\u00ades.\u201d Take a few min\u00adutes and respond to this \u2014 you might get print\u00aded in the New York Times.<\/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.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2018\/10\/01\">How To Live Your Life<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/rise-of-the-machines\">Rise of the Machines<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/everyone-waits-patiently-for-fbi-investigation-that-will-definitely-end-all-controversy\">Every\u00adone Waits Patient\u00adly For FBI Inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtion That Will Def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly End All Con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsy<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/scientists-predict-globe-will-warm-significantly-when-jesus-returns\">Sci\u00aden\u00adtists Pre\u00addict Globe Will Warm Sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly When Jesus Returns<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/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;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2017\/03\/16\/book-review-seeing-like-a-state\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Book Review: See\u00ading Like A State<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Slate Star Codex): \u201cPeas\u00adants didn\u2019t like per\u00adma\u00adnent sur\u00adnames. Their own sys\u00adtem was quite rea\u00adson\u00adable for them: John the bak\u00ader was John Bak\u00ader, John the black\u00adsmith was John Smith, John who lived under the hill was John Under\u00adhill, John who was real\u00adly short was John Short. The same per\u00adson might be John Smith and John Under\u00adhill in dif\u00adfer\u00adent con\u00adtexts, where his sta\u00adtus as a black\u00adsmith or place of ori\u00adgin was more impor\u00adtant. But the gov\u00adern\u00adment insist\u00aded on giv\u00ading every\u00adone a sin\u00adgle per\u00adma\u00adnent name, unique for the vil\u00adlage, and track\u00ading who was in the same fam\u00adi\u00adly as whom. Resis\u00adtance was intense.\u201d This is long and amaz\u00ading. (first shared in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/04\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-95\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol\u00adume 95<\/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). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.<\/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. 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