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<\/a>\n\n 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 way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. \u201cWe May Have To Shoot Down This Aircraft\u201d<\/a> (Garrett Graff, Politico): \u201cWe can\u2019t see the aircraft. We don\u2019t know where it is because we don\u2019t have any radars pointing into the U.S. Anything in the United States was considered friendly by definition.\u201d A gripping account of the Flight 93 story.<\/li>
  2. Active Learning Works But Students Don\u2019t Like It<\/a> (Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution): \u201cA carefully done study that held students and teachers constant shows that students learn more in active learning classes but they dislike this style of class and think they learn less. It\u2019s no big surprise\u2013active learning is hard and makes the students feel stupid. It\u2019s much easier to sit back and be entertained by a great lecturer who makes everything seem simple.\u201d<\/li>
  3. How Evangelicals Invented Liberals\u2019 Favorite Legal Doctrine<\/a> (Matthew Lee Anderson, The Federalist): \u201c\u2026within the many ironies of history, the social and political instruments a perfectionist movement deploys may be easily co-opted for ends and purposes never imagined in their development. That is, if late-twentieth-century evangelical activists sowed the wind, today\u2019s activists have reaped the whirlwind.\u201d I love articles that present a topic I think I know something about and proceed to show me something I had never known before.<\/li>
  4. A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked<\/a> (Bahar Gholipour, The Atlantic): \u201cIt would be quite an achievement for a brain signal 100 times smaller than major brain waves to solve the problem of free will. But the story of the Bereitschaftspotential <\/em>has one more twist: It might be something else entirely.\u201d<\/li>
  5. Viktor Orban Among The Christians<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The American Conservative): \u201cOrban is what Trump\u2019s biggest fans wish he was (but isn\u2019t), and what Trump\u2019s enemies think him to be (but isn\u2019t). If Donald Trump had the smarts and skills of Viktor Orban, the political situation in the US would be much, much different \u2014 for better or for worse, depending on your point of view.\u201d I don\u2019t have much interest in Hungarian politics, but this fascinated me. <\/li>
  6. When the Culture War Comes for the Kids<\/a> (George Packer, The Atlantic): \u201cI asked myself if I was moving to the wrong side of a great moral cause because its tone was too loud, because it shook loose what I didn\u2019t want to give up. It took me a long time to see that the new progressivism didn\u2019t just carry my own politics further than I liked. It was actually hostile to principles without which I don\u2019t believe democracy can survive.\u201d This article came highly recommended, but it only got interesting to me about halfway through \u2014 and then wow.<\/li>
  7. Conservatives Clash on the Goal of Government<\/a> (Jonathan Leeman, Providence): \u201cThere is no neutrality. The public square is a battleground of gods. Our culture wars are wars of religion. For the time being, liberalism keeps us from picking up sixteenth-century swords for those wars, which is no small achievement. But don\u2019t assume it won\u2019t control us with the subtler tools of a twenty-first century legal totalitarianism.\u201d Insightful reflections on how Christians should form their political positions.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n