{"id":5232,"date":"2018-11-16T21:39:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T05:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2018-11-16T21:39:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T05:39:07","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/11\/16\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-178","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 178"},"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. No \u2014 real\u00adly. I mean them. Also, 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><a href=\"https:\/\/erlc.com\/resource-library\/articles\/cultural-winsomeness-will-not-be-enough-for-christians\">Cul\u00adtur\u00adal win\u00adsome\u00adness will not be enough for Chris\u00adtians<\/a> (Andrew T Walk\u00ader, Ethics and Reli\u00adgious Lib\u00ader\u00adty Com\u00admis\u00adsion): \u201cChow is the very def\u00adi\u00adn\u00adi\u00adtion of class, dig\u00adni\u00adty and civil\u00adi\u00adty. She\u2019s a mod\u00adel for what faith\u00adful Chris\u00adt\u00adian dis\u00adci\u00adple\u00adship looks like in the pub\u00adlic square. There is no foam\u00ading-at-the-mouth hatred for any\u00adone. She loves every\u00adone; she just did not want to vio\u00adlate her con\u00adscience. What\u2019s the les\u00adson here? There are many. But to focus on just one, this sto\u00adry is a reminder that no amount of cul\u00adtur\u00adal sophis\u00adti\u00adca\u00adtion or intel\u00adli\u00adgence will absolve the Chris\u00adt\u00adian from being seen as a back\u00adward-think\u00ading big\u00adot.\u201d This is cor\u00adrect.\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CRTV\/status\/1063238975136120832\">An inter\u00adview with Isabel\u00adla Chow<\/a> (Allie Stuck\u00adey, Twit\u00adter) \u2014 this is a 4 minute video.<\/li>\n<li>Kind of relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/magazine\/wp\/2018\/11\/08\/feature\/is-the-southern-poverty-law-center-judging-hate-fairly\/\">The State of Hate<\/a> (David Mont\u00adgomery, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cIn think\u00ading about my inter\u00adview, I was struck by just how lit\u00adtle he had dis\u00adput\u00aded the SPLC\u2019s claims about the frankly dis\u00adqui\u00adet\u00ading posi\u00adtions he has tak\u00aden. To some extent, it was sim\u00adi\u00adlar to my expe\u00adri\u00adence at the FRC and ADF. They sim\u00adply saw those posi\u00adtions as admirable, or at the very least defen\u00adsi\u00adble, expres\u00adsions of truth \u2014 where\u00adas, to the SPLC, they were expres\u00adsions of hate.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Vague\u00adly relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidAFrench\/status\/1063224738149949440\">David French on the price of pub\u00adlic engage\u00adment<\/a> (Twit\u00adter)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/iasc-culture.org\/THR\/THR_article_2018_Summer_Christman.php\">What Is It Like to Be a Man?<\/a> (Phil Christ\u00adman, The Hedge\u00adhog Review): \u201cI live out my mas\u00adculin\u00adi\u00adty most often as a per\u00adverse avoid\u00adance of com\u00adfort: the refusal of good clothes, mois\u00adtur\u00adiz\u00ader, painkillers; hard phys\u00adi\u00adcal train\u00ading, pur\u00adsued for its own sake and not because I enjoy it; a sense that there is a set amount of phys\u00adi\u00adcal pain or self-imposed dis\u00adci\u00adpline that I owe the uni\u00adverse.\u201d Very well-writ\u00adten. Every\u00adone will like\u00adly find parts they res\u00adonate with and parts they reject. The author is a lec\u00adtur\u00ader at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Michi\u00adgan and based on his CV seems to be a fair\u00adly devot\u00aded Epis\u00adco\u00adpalian.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/ask-shall-evangelize\/\">Ask and You Shall Evan\u00adge\u00adlize<\/a> (Sarah Eekhoff Zyl\u00adstra, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201c\u2018Mod\u00adern selves are so inter\u00adnal,\u2019 Keller said. \u2018In the old days if you were con\u00advinced of the truth, you changed your\u00adself. Now we adopt the truth as acces\u00adsories that fit in with who we want to be.\u2019\u201d A good arti\u00adcle on the nature of effec\u00adtive wit\u00adness in con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary West\u00adern soci\u00adety.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2018\/12\/the-sex-recession\/573949\/\">Why Are Young Peo\u00adple Hav\u00ading So Lit\u00adtle Sex?<\/a> (Kate Julian, The Atlantic): \u201cI men\u00adtioned to sev\u00ader\u00adal of the peo\u00adple I inter\u00adviewed for this piece that I\u2019d met my hus\u00adband in an ele\u00adva\u00adtor, in 2001. (We worked on dif\u00adfer\u00adent floors of the same insti\u00adtu\u00adtion, and over the months that fol\u00adlowed struck up many more conversations\u2014in the ele\u00adva\u00adtor, in the break room, on the walk to the sub\u00adway.) I was fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded by the extent to which this prompt\u00aded oth\u00ader women to sigh and say that they\u2019d just love to meet some\u00adone that way. And yet quite a few of them sug\u00adgest\u00aded that if a ran\u00addom guy start\u00aded talk\u00ading to them in an ele\u00adva\u00adtor, they would be weird\u00aded out. \u2018<em>Creep\u00ader! Get away from me,<\/em>\u2019 one woman imag\u00adined think\u00ading.\u201d The arti\u00adcle is vul\u00adgar in places and premised on flawed assump\u00adtions\u2026 and still man\u00adages to be fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading and insight\u00adful.\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2018\/11\/11\/republican-party-anti-pornography-politics-222096\">How the GOP Gave Up on Porn<\/a> (Tim Alber\u00adta, Politi\u00adco): \u201cWe know that the ubiq\u00adui\u00adty of porn is a prob\u00adlem: Even as experts debate the sci\u00adence of addic\u00adtion and the link between con\u00adsump\u00adtion and destruc\u00adtive behav\u00adior, there is sure\u00adfire soci\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal evi\u00addence of its exac\u00ader\u00adbat\u00ading influ\u00adence on those most susceptible\u2014people pre\u00addis\u00adposed to vio\u00adlence, for instance, or misog\u00ady\u00adny or child abuse. There is also con\u00adsen\u00adsus that it has, in plen\u00adty of cas\u00ades, con\u00adtributed to abu\u00adsive rela\u00adtion\u00adships and the frac\u00adtur\u00ading of fam\u00adi\u00adlies. And that\u2019s just where adults are con\u00adcerned.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/highline.huffingtonpost.com\/articles\/en\/how-to-help-someone-who-is-suicidal\/\">The Best Way To Save Peo\u00adple From Sui\u00adcide<\/a> (Jason Cherkis, Huff\u00adin\u00adg\u00adton Post High\u00adline): \u201cMot\u00adto didn\u2019t take long to write the first let\u00adter a patient would receive. He knew what he want\u00aded to say, hit\u00adting upon two sentences\u201437 words\u2014that felt just right: \u2018It has been some time since you were here at the hos\u00adpi\u00adtal, and we hope things are going well for you. If you wish to drop us a note we would be glad to hear from you.\u2019\u201d This is an engross\u00ading arti\u00adcle. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/catalinac_womenstalk.pdf\">Over\u00adcom\u00ading Bar\u00adri\u00aders to Women\u2019s Advance\u00adment in Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Sci\u00adence<\/a> (Amy Catalinac, PDF host\u00aded at Har\u00advard): \u201cOf the polit\u00adi\u00adcal sci\u00aden\u00adtists of my gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion I know well, suc\u00adcess\u00adful ones do <strong>all of these things auto\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly<\/strong>, and those who have been less suc\u00adcess\u00adful do many few\u00ader of them.\u201d Very straight talk on how to get a tenure-track job. From my out\u00adside van\u00adtage point, this seems like excel\u00adlent advice for social sci\u00aden\u00adtists of either gen\u00adder.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-dramatic-implosion-of-i-kissed-dating-goodbye-is-a-lesson--and-a-warning\/2018\/11\/14\/eeecd65c-e850-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.8bc25089021f\">The dra\u00admat\u00adic implo\u00adsion of \u2018I Kissed Dat\u00ading Good\u00adbye\u2019 is a les\u00adson \u2014 and a warn\u00ading<\/a> (Chris\u00adtine Emba, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cThe next time we\u2019re tempt\u00aded toward too-for\u00admu\u00adla\u00adic think\u00ading, we\u2019ll know to take it with a grain of salt. After all, life is rarely so pure.\u201d<\/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=zAJHUv2JS7w\">Der\u00adren Brown Blows James Corden\u2019s Mind<\/a> (YouTube): even if you\u2019ve seen sim\u00adi\u00adlar tricks, this one will catch you off-guard<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/18\/11\/puzzle-montage-art\">Puz\u00adzle Mon\u00adtage Art<\/a> (kottke.org): \u201cTak\u00ading advan\u00adtage of the fact that puz\u00adzle man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00aders typ\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly use the same cut pat\u00adterns to make many dif\u00adfer\u00adent puz\u00adzles, Tim Klein uses the inter\u00adchange\u00adable pieces to cre\u00adate sur\u00adre\u00adal\u00adist mashups of puz\u00adzles.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/christian-radio-station-threatens-to-play-good-good-father-on-repeat-until-pledge-drive-goal-is-met\">Chris\u00adt\u00adian Radio Sta\u00adtion Threat\u00adens To Play \u2018Good, Good Father\u2019 On Repeat Until Pledge Dri\u00adve Goal Is Met<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/broward-county-brings-in-expert-consultant-to-speed-up-ballot-count\">Broward Coun\u00adty Brings In Expert Con\u00adsul\u00adtant To Speed Up Bal\u00adlot Count<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee) \u2014 the accom\u00adpa\u00adny\u00ading pho\u00adto makes the joke<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/naked-juice-introduces-less-revealing-options-for-christians\">Naked Juice Intro\u00adduces Less Reveal\u00ading Options For Chris\u00adtians<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/protagonist\">Pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2018\/11\/11\">Me When I Preach<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/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;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an eye-open\u00ading (and dis\u00admay\u00ading) read:<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2014\/11\/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story\/383262\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What The Media Gets Wrong About Israel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Mat\u00adtie Fried\u00adman, The Atlantic). (first shared back in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/06\/26\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-5\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol\u00adume 5<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">): \u201cone of the most impor\u00adtant aspects of the media-sat\u00adu\u00adrat\u00aded con\u00adflict between Jews and Arabs is also the least cov\u00adered: the press itself. The West\u00adern press has become less an observ\u00ader of this con\u00adflict than an actor in it, a role with con\u00adse\u00adquences for the mil\u00adlions of peo\u00adple try\u00ading to com\u00adpre\u00adhend cur\u00adrent events, includ\u00ading pol\u00adi\u00adcy\u00admak\u00aders who depend on jour\u00adnal\u00adis\u00adtic accounts to under\u00adstand a region where they con\u00adsis\u00adtent\u00adly seek, and fail, to pro\u00adduc\u00adtive\u00adly inter\u00advene.\u201d<\/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. No \u2014 real\u00adly. I mean them. Also, 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 Cul\u00adtur\u00adal win\u00adsome\u00adness will not be enough for \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/11\/16\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-178\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 178\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":"Some stuff I 100% co-sign and some stuff I think is fundamentally flawed. 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