{"id":5831,"date":"2020-01-10T16:55:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T00:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5831"},"modified":"2020-01-10T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T00:55:52","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/01\/10\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-233","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 233"},"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

I had hoped to include some stuff on Iran but that did\u00adn\u2019t hap\u00adpen. Too much oth\u00ader inter\u00adest\u00ading stuff came up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. The His\u00adto\u00adri\u00adan as Moral\u00adist<\/a> (Yuval Levin, Nation\u00adal Review): \u201cProp\u00ader\u00adly under\u00adstood, the moral\u00adist calls soci\u00adety to its high\u00adest self, per\u00adhaps espe\u00adcial\u00adly by help\u00ading a soci\u00adety under\u00adstand the ways in which what it thinks are its strengths are actu\u00adal\u00adly its weak\u00adness\u00ades. And an effec\u00adtive moral\u00adist would do this in an engag\u00ading and com\u00adpelling way. The ablest moral\u00adist is thus almost inevitably a kind of intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal.\u201d This was much bet\u00adter than I expect\u00aded.<\/li>
  2. Scam Lures Speak\u00aders to Fake UK Church Con\u00adfer\u00adences<\/a> (Kate Shell\u00adnut, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cThis email scheme has become the \u201cNiger\u00adian prince\u201d offer of the Chris\u00adt\u00adian speak\u00ading cir\u00adcuit, with hun\u00addreds of US Chris\u00adt\u00adian lead\u00aders invit\u00aded to events at UK church\u00ades by scam\u00admers who hope to col\u00adlect hun\u00addreds of dol\u00adlars in visa fees ahead of the pur\u00adport\u00aded con\u00adfer\u00adences.\u201d What a niche scam! I won\u00adder if this exists for oth\u00ader pro\u00adfes\u00adsions.<\/li>
  3. Chi\u00adna: State\u00adment from Ear\u00adly Rain Covenant Church regard\u00ading Pas\u00adtor Wang Yi\u2019s severe sen\u00adtence<\/a> (Adam Ford, Dis\u00adrn): \u201cIn Christ, we issue the fol\u00adlow\u00ading exhor\u00adta\u00adtion and protest against Pas\u00adtor Wang Yi\u2019s severe sen\u00adtence. Do you gov\u00adern\u00adment offi\u00adcials not know that this is a sin against God? Do you not know that this is an abuse of your author\u00adi\u00adty (Rom. 13:3)? Even so, we do not hate you. On the con\u00adtrary, our mer\u00adci\u00adful and right\u00adeous God wants us to love you and to pray for you.\u201d<\/li>
  4. Hav\u00ading Kids<\/a> (Paul Gra\u00adham, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cI remem\u00adber per\u00adfect\u00adly well what life was like before. Well enough to miss some things a lot, like the abil\u00adi\u00adty to take off for some oth\u00ader coun\u00adtry at a momen\u00adt\u2019s notice. That was so great. Why did I nev\u00ader do that? See what I did there? The fact is, most of the free\u00addom I had before kids, I nev\u00ader used. I paid for it in lone\u00adli\u00adness, but I nev\u00ader used it.\u201d <\/li>
  5. The Big Farmer Bailout Was Nev\u00ader Debat\u00aded<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cThis is a telling exam\u00adple of how pol\u00adi\u00adtics works\u2013the process rather than the fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal ques\u00adtion deter\u00admines much of the out\u00adcome.\u201d Fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading. <\/li>
  6. Too much trans\u00adparen\u00adcy makes the world more opaque.<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cThe demand for trans\u00adparen\u00adcy seems so innocu\u00adous. Who could be against greater trans\u00adparen\u00adcy? But trans\u00adparen\u00adcy is inim\u00adi\u00adcal to pri\u00adva\u00adcy. And we care about pri\u00adva\u00adcy in part, because we can be more hon\u00adest and truth\u00adful in pri\u00advate than in pub\u00adlic.\u201d<\/li>
  7. 1776 Hon\u00adors America\u2019s Diver\u00adsi\u00adty in a Way 1619 Does Not<\/a> (Conor Frieder\u00ads\u00addorf, The Atlantic): \u201cMy own judg\u00adment diverges some\u00adwhat from the main rival fac\u00adtions in this debate. Like many crit\u00adics, I hope the Times Mag\u00ada\u00adzine<\/em>\u2019s work suc\u00adceeds in caus\u00ading more Amer\u00adi\u00adcans to rec\u00adog\u00adnize the remark\u00adable faith that African Amer\u00adi\u00adcans showed in our country\u2019s promise even in eras when Amer\u00adi\u00adca least deserved it. Yet the core refram\u00ading that the 1619 Project advo\u00adcates would unwit\u00adting\u00adly set back, rather than advance, the caus\u00ades of equi\u00adty and racial inclu\u00adsion.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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