{"id":5320,"date":"2019-02-01T19:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T03:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2019-02-01T19:18:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T03:18:54","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/02\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-188","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 188"},"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 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&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/our-columnists\/assessing-betsy-devos-proposed-rules-on-title-ix-and-sexual-assault\">Assessing Betsy DeVos\u2019s Proposed Rules on Title IX and Sexual Assault<\/a> (Jeannie Suk Gerson, New Yorker): \u201cThe truth is that there is much to criticize in DeVos\u2019s proposal but also much that would help to make schools\u2019 processes for handling sexual misconduct fairer to all parties.\u201d Gerson, a Harvard law prof, consistently offers insightful perspective on issues surrounding campus sexual assault.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2019\/02\/cruel-and-unusual-punishment-2\/\">Cruel and Unusual Punishment<\/a> (Lionel Shriver, Harpers): \u201cThe contemporary impulse to rebuke disgraced creators by vanishing their work from the cultural marketplace exhibits a mean-\u00adspiritedness, a vengefulness even, as well as an illogic. Why, if you catch someone doing something bad, would you necessarily rub out what they\u2019ve done that\u2019s good? If you\u2019re convicted of breaking and entering, the judge won\u2019t send bailiffs around to tear down the tree house you built for your daughter and to pour bleach on your homemade pie.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicseminar.org\/2019\/01\/how-i-knew-the-covingtonboys-video-was-click-bait\/\">How I Knew the #CovingtonBoys Video Was Clickbait<\/a> (Clair Potter, Public Seminar): \u201cI think the most underreported story about #CovingtonBoys is how it got to us in the first place. It originated with a piece of clickbait that was chosen and edited, by persons unknown, to produce outrage on the right and the left. Originating in a fake account, and proliferated by other fake accounts, it was part of a professional social media campaign intended to disrupt.\u201d&nbsp;<ul>\n<li>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2019\/02\/11\/bad-press\/\">Bad, Press<\/a> (Charles Cooke, National Review): \u201cFor a neat illustration of how farcical things have become, take a look at the <em>Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s most recent \u2018fact check,\u2019 which helpfully informs its readers that the claimed \u2018one thousand burgers\u2019 President Trump bought for the Clemson football team were not, in fact, \u2018piled up a mile high\u2019 because, \u2018at two inches each, a thousand burgers would not reach one mile high.\u2019 Democracy dies in darkness, indeed.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/providencemag.com\/2019\/01\/imagine-nations-selfless-no-paradise\/\">Imagine Nations Were Selfless\u2014It\u2019s No Paradise<\/a> (Brad Littlejohn, Providence): \u201cWe hear often today about how we live in \u201ca global society\u201d and have to take up the responsibilities of \u201cglobal citizenship.\u201d But what these exhortations miss is that the exponential growth in human <em>knowledge <\/em>over the past century has not been matched by nearly as rapid growth in human <em>agency<\/em>. It is now possible for a housewife in Tennessee to be aware of a rape in Bangladesh within hours or minutes, but she is only marginally more able to <em>do anything about it<\/em> now than she was 100 years ago.\u201d The article as a whole is not great, but it makes a very interesting argument: patriotism is a necessary way to make our empathy productive.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2019\/01\/29\/in-polarized-washington-a-democrat-anchors-bipartisan-friendships-in-faith\/\">In polarized Washington, a Democrat anchors bipartisan friendships in faith<\/a> (Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service): \u201cA bridge builder with Republicans, Coons is known for helping create rare flickers of bipartisan agreement. Part of his secret, it seems, is religion\u2026. Coons, who grew up attending Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church in Hockessin, Del., explained that his faith has not only provided grounding for his own life but has also emerged as a point of connection with Republicans, with whom he has forged lasting relationships \u2014 and legislation.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/what-the-establishment-right-doesnt-get-vox-spain\/\">What The Establishment Right Doesn\u2019t Get<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The American Conservative): this essay, a large part of which is actually commentary from a reader, is like a flamethrower. \u201c\u2026those who preach the bourgeois virtues can\u2019t get a hearing if there is no stable employment for people who do the right thing. And, if those who do the right thing (by which I mean play by the rules: live lives of hard work, fair play, and self-discipline) can find everything kicked out from under them all of a sudden, it destabilizes the entire society.\u201d&nbsp;<ul>\n<li>The follow-up, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/liberty-equality-fraternity-matt-in-va-dickens\/\">Liberty, Equality \u2014 But Where\u2019s The Fraternity?<\/a> is also stimulating.<\/li>\n<li>Reading the latter one brought to my attention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uow.edu.au\/~nillsen\/Chesterton_on_Dickens_full.pdf\">a very short essay by G.K. Chesterton<\/a>. I highly recommend it. \u201cThe English people as a body went blind, as the saying is, for interpreting democracy entirely in terms of liberty. They said in substance that if they had more and more liberty it did not matter whether they had any equality or any fraternity. But this was violating the sacred trinity of true politics; they confounded the persons and they divided the substance.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/4-facts-every-american-should-know-about-third-trimester-abortions\/\">4 Facts Every American Should Know About Third-Trimester Abortions<\/a> (Joe Carter, Gospel Coalition): \u201cAs I noted in an article last week, Democratic legislators in places like New York and Virginia are moving to codify abortion rights in state law to prepare for the day when <em>Roe<\/em> and <em>Doe <\/em>are overturned. When the Supreme Court throws the abortion issue back to the individual states, third-trimester abortions will still be protected in states that reiterate <em>Doe<\/em>\u2019s standards for \u2018viability\u2019 or \u2018health.\u2019\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:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/report-americans-totally-unable-to-remember-what-they-were-upset-about-last-week\">Report: Americans Totally Unable To Remember What They Were Outraged About Last Week<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theglendavis\/status\/1090998956585189376\">An amusing scene from the old Batman show<\/a> (Twitter)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeremyMcLellan\/status\/1091143197613584389\">Should CHILDREN be allowed in CHURCH? I\u2019m here to help.<\/a> (Jeremy McLellan, Twitter): this is a short, snarky video. Cranky Catholics make for entertaining theologians.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/19\/01\/the-lure-of-the-spider-tailed-horned-viper\">The Lure of the Spider-Tailed Horned Viper<\/a> (Jason Kottke, personal blog): \u201cIf an animal with venomous snake jaws on one end and a spider on the other isn\u2019t everyone\u2019s idea of a nightmare animal, I don\u2019t know what&nbsp;is.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/extremist-pastor-attacks-cafe-with-super-soaker-dozens-baptized\">Extremist Pastor Attacks Cafe With Super Soaker, Dozens Baptized<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aTKdYIs_7gQ\">Was Alex Jones\u2019 bag hijacked by a one-armed monkey in the zoo?<\/a> (Would I Lie To You?, YouTube)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting A While&nbsp;Ago<\/h3>\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/food\/no-food-is-healthy-not-even-kale\/2016\/01\/15\/4a5c2d24-ba52-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html?tid=pm_pop_b\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Food Is Healthy. Not Even Kale.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Michael Ruhlman, Washington Post): People can be healthy. Food can be nutritious. This is a wonderful essay about how we misuse language to our detriment. If you\u2019re surprised I included this, I believe that our culture has a quasi-religious relationship to health and to food, and I also believe that the use of language is profoundly moral and that our culture is a linguistic mess (to which I know of no finer guide than <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcetext.com\/grammarian\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Underground Grammarian<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). (first shared in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/01\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-33\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">volume 33<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it). And to the extent you can discern my opinions, please understand that they are my own and not necessarily those of Chi Alpha or any other organization I may be perceived to represent.<\/p>\n<p>Also, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about&nbsp;it.<\/p>\n<p>If this was forwarded 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 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&nbsp;way. Things Glen Found Interesting Assessing Betsy DeVos\u2019s Proposed Rules on Title IX and Sexual Assault (Jeannie Suk Gerson, New \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/02\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-188\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 188\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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[121,120,221,177,169,117,147],"class_list":["post-5320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-abortion","tag-famous-christians","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-patriotism","tag-politics","tag-sexual-assault"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1nO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5325,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions\/5325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}