{"id":5447,"date":"2019-05-24T07:31:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T15:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2019-06-28T19:58:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T03:58:37","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/05\/24\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-204","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 204"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a> 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\n\n\n

This one is com\u00ading out extra-ear\u00adly today because my sched\u00adule has been and will con\u00adtin\u00adue to be absurd\u00adly busy for the next bit. Prayers appre\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. How lawyers are dis\u00adtort\u00ading reli\u00adgious free\u00addom<\/a> (Asma Uddin, Deseret News): \u201cLast sum\u00admer, the court decid\u00aded Trump v. Hawaii (the trav\u00adel ban case) only three weeks after it decid\u00aded Mas\u00adter\u00adpiece Cakeshop v. Col\u00adorado Civ\u00adil Rights Com\u00admis\u00adsion, which involved a Chris\u00adt\u00adian bak\u00ader who refused on reli\u00adgious grounds to bake a wed\u00adding cake for a gay cou\u00adple\u2026. The stark con\u00adtrast in the court\u2019s approach to anti-reli\u00adgious hos\u00adtil\u00adi\u00adty raised the ques\u00adtion: Does reli\u00adgious free\u00addom apply equal\u00adly to Mus\u00adlims and Chris\u00adtians? But in all the pan\u00adic and pun\u00addit\u00adry that ensued, Amer\u00adi\u00adcans over\u00adlooked a crit\u00adi\u00adcal fac\u00adtor: The lawyers chal\u00adleng\u00ading the ban left out legal argu\u00adments under the Free Exer\u00adcise Clause that, if not omit\u00adted, might have changed the out\u00adcome.\u201d This is a very good (and some\u00adwhat dis\u00adcour\u00adag\u00ading) op-ed.<\/li>
  2. Lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture as Flat\u00adtery<\/a> (James McEl\u00adroy, Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Affairs Jour\u00adnal): \u201cCon\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary Amer\u00adi\u00adcan lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture is cre\u00adative\u00adly exhaust\u00aded because free indi\u00adrect style places the read\u00ader above the char\u00adac\u00adters\u2026. Char\u00adac\u00adters have to be blind to the obvi\u00adous for the sto\u00adry to work. We are told this style is all about engen\u00adder\u00ading empa\u00adthy, but in actu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty it func\u00adtions by cre\u00adat\u00ading stunt\u00aded char\u00adac\u00adters. The read\u00ader is trained to look down at oth\u00aders, and the writer becomes obse\u00adquious to the oh-so-intel\u00adli\u00adgent read\u00aders\u2019 egos, always telling them, \u2018Look how smart you are.\u2019\u201d<\/li>
  3. The APA Meet\u00ading: A Pho\u00adto-Essay<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Slate Star Codex): \u201cWere there real\u00adly more than twice as many ses\u00adsions on glob\u00adal warm\u00ading as on obses\u00adsive com\u00adpul\u00adsive dis\u00ador\u00adder? Three times as many on immi\u00adgra\u00adtion as on ADHD? As best I can count, yes. I don\u2019t want to exag\u00adger\u00adate this. There was still a lot of real\u00adly meaty sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic dis\u00adcus\u00adsion if you sought it out. But over\u00adall the bal\u00adance was pret\u00adty strik\u00ading\u2026. If you want to mod\u00adel the APA, you could do worse than a giant fire\u00adhose that takes in phar\u00adma\u00adceu\u00adti\u00adcal com\u00adpa\u00adny mon\u00adey at one end, and shoots lec\u00adtures about social jus\u00adtice out the oth\u00ader.\u201d This is fun\u00adny, ram\u00adbling, insight\u00adful com\u00admen\u00adtary on the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Psy\u00adchi\u00adatric Association\u2019s annu\u00adal meet\u00ading.<\/li>
  4. Two Stan\u00adford sto\u00adries: