{"id":5850,"date":"2020-01-31T17:53:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T01:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2020-01-31T17:53:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T01:53:47","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-236","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/01\/31\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-236","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 236"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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 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>     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<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2020\/01\/24\/behind-the-great-firewall\/\">Behind the Great Fire\u00adwall<\/a> (Thomas Brown, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cThe Chi\u00adnese are proud of Chi\u00adna, not just of 5,000 years of his\u00adto\u00adry and a glob\u00adal\u00adly rec\u00adog\u00adnized ancient cul\u00adture, but of mod\u00adern Chi\u00adna. Chi\u00adna the indus\u00adtry leader, Chi\u00adna the pro\u00adtec\u00adtor of Chi\u00adnese busi\u00adness, Chi\u00adna the pow\u00ader\u00adful and beau\u00adti\u00adful and rich. Chi\u00adna the unapolo\u00adgetic. This is a sto\u00adry the Chi\u00adnese want to hear and they don\u2019t care if orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtions seem\u00ading\u00adly deter\u00admined to only tell the sup\u00adpos\u00aded\u00adly bad things about Chi\u00adna are kept out.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"http:\/\/scholars-stage.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/political-and-practical-implications-of.html\">Polit\u00adi\u00adcal and Prac\u00adti\u00adcal Impli\u00adca\u00adtions of the Wuhan Virus<\/a> (Tan\u00adner Greer, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cThe Chi\u00adnese peo\u00adple have an inter\u00adest\u00ading rela\u00adtion\u00adship with the Par\u00adty pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda and cen\u00adsor\u00adship sys\u00adtem. Chi\u00adnese are well aware that the gov\u00adern\u00adment lies to them. What they often have dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty dis\u00adcern\u00ading is what it decides to lie about. Some\u00adtimes it does not lie. Oth\u00ader times it sim\u00adply leaves the truth unsaid.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/frenchpress.thedispatch.com\/p\/sunday-morning-with-kanye\">Sun\u00adday Morn\u00ading With Kanye<\/a> (David French, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cAs we made our way close to the stage, I was struck by some\u00adthing unusu\u00adal. I didn\u2019t see any mer\u00adchan\u00addise for sale. There was no Kanye gear. There were no pro\u00admo\u00adtions for Kanye. There were no pic\u00adtures of Kanye\u2014at least not that I saw. If you\u2019d just walked up, you\u2019d have no clue that one of the world\u2019s biggest stars was about to per\u00adform.\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/johnhcochrane.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/wokeademia.html\">Wokeademia<\/a> (John Cochrane, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cThe game is no longer to advance can\u00addi\u00addates who are them\u00adselves \u2018diverse.\u2019 The game is to stock the fac\u00adul\u00adty with peo\u00adple of a cer\u00adti\u00adfied ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal stripe, who are com\u00admit\u00adted to advanc\u00ading this cause. Tom Sow\u00adell need not apply.\u201d The author is an econ pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Stanford\u2019s Hoover Insti\u00adtu\u00adtion.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/religionandpolitics.org\/2020\/01\/28\/why-these-young-american-christians-embraced-socialism\/\">Why These Young Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Chris\u00adtians Embraced Social\u00adism<\/a> (Sarah Ngu, Reli\u00adgion &amp; Pol\u00adi\u00adtics): \u201c\u2026their evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal expe\u00adri\u00adences pushed them to take the Bible seri\u00adous\u00adly and read it literally\u2014which meant they end\u00aded up con\u00adclud\u00ading that being a Chris\u00adt\u00adian meant car\u00ading about the poor and dis\u00adtrust\u00ading the state (which, after all, killed Jesus).\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/providencemag.com\/2020\/01\/on-killing-human-monsters\/\">On Killing Human Mon\u00adsters<\/a> (Mark LiVec\u00adchi, Prov\u00adi\u00addence): \u201c\u2018The inter\u00adnal con\u00addi\u00adtion of God\u2019s exter\u00adnal expres\u00adsion of wrath,\u2019 writes the the\u00adolo\u00adgian and rab\u00adbi Abra\u00adham Joshua Hes\u00adchel, \u2018is grief.\u2019 To the best I can deduce, there\u00adin is com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00aded the com\u00adplex dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion of the just war\u00adrior.\u2026 I do not rejoice that I wor\u00adship a God who kills. I only rejoice that I wor\u00adship a God who is will\u00ading to.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2020\/january-web-only\/genealogical-adam-eve-evolution-joshua-swamidass.html\">What If We Don\u2019t Have to Choose Between Evo\u00adlu\u00adtion and Adam and Eve?<\/a> (Rebec\u00adca Ran\u00addall, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cIf we keep straight what the sci\u00adence is actu\u00adal\u00adly say\u00ading, the sto\u00adry of Gen\u00ade\u00adsis could be true as lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly as you could imag\u00adine it, with Adam being cre\u00adat\u00aded by dust and God breath\u00ading into his nos\u00adtrils and Eve being cre\u00adat\u00aded from his rib. But evo\u00adlu\u00adtion is hap\u00adpen\u00ading out\u00adside the Gar\u00adden, and there are peo\u00adple out there who God cre\u00adat\u00aded in a dif\u00adfer\u00adent way and who end up inter\u00admin\u00adgling with Adam and Eve\u2019s descen\u00addants. It\u2019s not actu\u00adal\u00adly in con\u00adflict with evo\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adary sci\u00adence.\u201d This is an inter\u00adview with S. Joshua Swami\u00addass, a com\u00adpu\u00adta\u00adtion\u00adal biol\u00ado\u00adgist at Wash\u00ading\u00adton Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty in St. Louis. The book he wrote has been get\u00adting rave reviews.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nas.org\/reports\/the-lost-history-of-western-civilization\/full-report\">The Lost His\u00adto\u00adry of West\u00adern Civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion<\/a> (Stan\u00adley Kurtz, The Nation\u00adal Asso\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion of Schol\u00adars): \u201cIn Jan\u00adu\u00adary of 1987, stu\u00addents at Stan\u00adford Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty chant\u00adi\u00adng \u2018Hey hey, ho ho, West\u00adern Culture\u2019s got to go,\u2019 kicked off this cul\u00adture war. The fis\u00adsure that opened three decades ago at Stanford\u2014between the new mul\u00adti\u00adcul\u00adtur\u00adal way, on the one hand, and tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal Amer\u00adi\u00adcan con\u00adcep\u00adtions of his\u00adto\u00adry and cit\u00adi\u00adzen\u00adship, on the other\u2014has widened now into a chasm.\u201d This is long and not for every\u00adone. It caught my atten\u00adtion because Stan\u00adford plays a sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant role in the nar\u00adra\u00adtive. The author has a Ph.D. from Har\u00advard and has taught at both there and at U Chica\u00adgo. He is cur\u00adrent\u00adly a senior fel\u00adlow at the Ethics and Pub\u00adlic Pol\u00adi\u00adcy Cen\u00adter.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wMALeR1i-FM\">Yel\u00adloPain \u2014 My Vote Dont Count<\/a> (YouTube): this is like a mod\u00adern (non-ani\u00admat\u00aded) School House Rock. Four min\u00adutes.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/coronavirus-polling-higher-than-all-dem-candidates\">Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus Polling High\u00ader Than All Pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial Can\u00addi\u00addates<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/dems-who-ran-sham-impeachment-hearings-shocked-as-republicans-run-sham-impeachment-trial\">Dems Who Ran Sham Impeach\u00adment Hear\u00adings Shocked As Repub\u00adli\u00adcans Run Sham Impeach\u00adment Tri\u00adal<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2020\/01\/29\">Trav\u00adel Is So Reward\u00ading<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine) \u2014 I know peo\u00adple who would do this<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2020-01-26\">The Per\u00adils of Being Inter\u00adviewed<\/a> (Dil\u00adbert)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2020-01-28\">The Val\u00adue of Com\u00adplain\u00ading<\/a> (Dil\u00adbert)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LIgmfpHBiDw\">Nigel Farage\u2019s dra\u00admat\u00adic final speech at the Euro\u00adpean Par\u00adlia\u00adment ahead of the Brex\u00adit vote<\/a> (EU Par\u00adlia\u00adment, YouTube): Five min\u00adutes. I don\u2019t have a strong opin\u00adion about Brex\u00adit \u2014 I\u2019m nei\u00adther British nor Euro\u00adpean and there\u2019s a lot I don\u2019t under\u00adstand. Hav\u00ading said that, I thought this was a very engag\u00ading speech. My jaw dropped at the bit with the flags around four min\u00adutes in.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2016-08-12\/every-place-has-detractors-consider-where-they-re-coming-from\">Every Place Has Detrac\u00adtors. Con\u00adsid\u00ader Where They\u2019re Com\u00ading From.<\/a> (Megan McAr\u00addle, Bloomberg View): \u201cThere is grave dan\u00adger in judg\u00ading a neigh\u00adbor\u00adhood, or a cul\u00adture, by the accounts of those who chose to leave it. Those peo\u00adple are least like\u00adly to appre\u00adci\u00adate the good things about where they came from, and the most like\u00adly to dwell on its less attrac\u00adtive qual\u00adi\u00adties.\u201d Bear this in mind when lis\u00adten\u00ading to con\u00adver\u00adsion tes\u00adti\u00admonies (both sec\u00adu\u00adlar and reli\u00adgious). (first shared in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/08\/12\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-62\">vol\u00adume 62<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.\n\nAlso, 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.\n\nIf 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. 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 Behind the Great Fire\u00adwall (Thomas Brown, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cThe Chi\u00adnese are proud of Chi\u00adna, not \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/01\/31\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-236\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 236\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":"Links ranging from China to Kanye to Brexit, with some stops for evolution and the history of western civilization along the way.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[131,125,120,127,176,135,162],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-china","tag-famous-christians","tag-history","tag-science","tag-stanford","tag-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1wm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","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=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5853,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions\/5853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}