{"id":6062,"date":"2020-06-05T22:17:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T06:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6062"},"modified":"2020-06-05T22:17:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T06:17:45","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-253","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/06\/05\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-253","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 253"},"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\" 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>\n\n    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>On the racial divi\u00adsion in Amer\u00adi\u00adca:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@BarackObama\/how-to-make-this-moment-the-turning-point-for-real-change-9fa209806067\">How to Make this Moment the Turn\u00ading Point for Real Change<\/a> (Barack Oba\u00adma, Medi\u00adum): \u201cFinal\u00adly, <em>the more spe\u00adcif\u00adic we can make demands for crim\u00adi\u00adnal jus\u00adtice and police reform, the hard\u00ader it will be for elect\u00aded offi\u00adcials to just offer lip ser\u00advice to the cause and then fall back into busi\u00adness as usu\u00adal once protests have gone away<\/em>. The con\u00adtent of that reform agen\u00adda will be dif\u00adfer\u00adent for var\u00adi\u00adous com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties.\u201d Empha\u00adsis in orig\u00adi\u00adnal.<\/li>\n<li>Some spe\u00adcif\u00adic pol\u00adi\u00adcy pro\u00adpos\u00adals: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samswey\/status\/1180655701271732224\">\u201cFor those who are inter\u00adest\u00aded in research-based solu\u00adtions to stop police vio\u00adlence, here\u2019s what you need to know \u2014 based on the facts and data. A thread. (1\/x)\u201d<\/a> (Samuel Sinyang\u00adwe, Twit\u00adter)<\/li>\n<li>More spe\u00adcif\u00adic pol\u00adi\u00adcy pro\u00adpos\u00adals: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/06\/how-actually-fix-americas-police\/612520\/\">How to Actu\u00adal\u00adly Fix Amer\u00adi\u00adca\u2019s Police<\/a> (Seth W. Stoughton, Jef\u00adfrey J. Noble &amp; Geof\u00adfrey P. Alpert, The Atlantic): \u201c\u2018Over\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adiza\u00adtion\u2019 has been broad\u00adly dis\u00adcussed; there are so many laws that vio\u00adla\u00adtions are ubiq\u00adui\u00adtous. If every\u00adone is a crim\u00adi\u00adnal, offi\u00adcers have almost unfet\u00adtered dis\u00adcre\u00adtion to pick and choose which laws to enforce and whom to stop, frisk, search, or arrest.\u201d The authors have an inter\u00adest\u00ading com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtion of exper\u00adtise (a law prof, a crim\u00adi\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy prof, and a for\u00admer offi\u00adcer).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/brown-university-letter-racism\">I Must Object: A Rebut\u00adtal to Brown Univ.\u2019s Let\u00adter Decry\u00ading Per\u00adva\u00adsive Racism in US<\/a> (Glenn C. Loury, City Jour\u00adnal): \u201cI deeply resent\u00aded the let\u00adter. First of all, what makes an admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtor (even a high\u00adly paid one, with an exalt\u00aded title) a \u2018leader\u2019 of this uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty? We, the fac\u00adul\u00adty, are the only \u2018lead\u00aders\u2019 wor\u00adthy of men\u00adtion when it comes to the realm of ideas. Who cares what some paper-push\u00ading appa\u00adratchik thinks? It\u2019s all a bit creepy and unset\u00adtling. Why must this university\u2019s senior admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion declare, on behalf of the insti\u00adtu\u00adtion as a whole and with one voice, that they unanimously\u2014without any sub\u00adtle dif\u00adfer\u00adences of empha\u00adsis or nuance\u2014interpret con\u00adtentious cur\u00adrent events through a sin\u00adgle lens?\u201d Loury, who is black, is an econ pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Brown. He did not come to play.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/june\/efrem-smith-george-floyd-minneapolis-evangelicals-response.html\">Efrem Smith: White Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals Need to Hum\u00adble Them\u00adselves<\/a> (Bob Smi\u00adetana, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cI\u2019ve been encour\u00adaged, espe\u00adcial\u00adly in the evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal wing of the church, to see more pas\u00adtors speak\u00ading out, being bro\u00adken\u00adheart\u00aded, call\u00ading for change. But then there\u2019s also a sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant seg\u00adment of evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adism that is either silent or late to the par\u00adty when it comes to the church call\u00ading for jus\u00adtice.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2020\/june-web-only\/george-floyd-protests-racism-nation-on-fire-needs-spirit.html\">A Nation on Fire Needs the Flames of the Spir\u00adit<\/a> (Esau McCaul\u00adley, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cThere is no oth\u00ader world in which to talk about Jesus than a world in which black men can have their necks stepped on for nine min\u00adutes.\u201d The author is an Angli\u00adcan priest and a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of New Tes\u00adta\u00adment at Wheaton.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2020-05-30\/dont-understand-the-protests-what-youre-seeing-is-people-pushed-to-the-edge\">Don\u2019t under\u00adstand the protests? What you\u2019re see\u00ading is peo\u00adple pushed to the edge<\/a> (Kareem Abdul-Jab\u00adbar, LA Times): \u201c\u2026even though we do all the con\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal things to raise pub\u00adlic and polit\u00adi\u00adcal aware\u00adness \u2014 write artic\u00adu\u00adlate and insight\u00adful pieces in the Atlantic, explain the con\u00adtin\u00adued dev\u00adas\u00adta\u00adtion on CNN, sup\u00adport can\u00addi\u00addates who promise change \u2014 the nee\u00addle hard\u00adly budges.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholars-stage.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/on-days-of-disorder.html\">On Days of Dis\u00ador\u00adder<\/a> (Tan\u00adner Greer, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cNotice that this schema is val\u00adue neu\u00adtral: it describes both the foot\u00adball hooli\u00adgan and the race riot\u00ader, 19th cen\u00adtu\u00adry Russ\u00adian pogroms and 21st cen\u00adtu\u00adry Hong Kong street bat\u00adtles. In all of these a cer\u00adtain per\u00adcent\u00adage of the par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpants plays the game for fair\u00adly mun\u00addane rea\u00adsons: to rev\u00adel in excite\u00adment or ter\u00adror, lose them\u00adselves in a rare sense of sol\u00adi\u00addar\u00adi\u00adty, belong\u00ading, or pow\u00ader, or to sim\u00adply gain the mon\u00ade\u00adtary rewards that come with theft and loot\u00ading. The pro\u00adpor\u00adtion of the pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion will\u00ading to join a riot to attain these things like\u00adly reflects the pro\u00adpor\u00adtion of the pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion oth\u00ader\u00adwise cut off from them in nor\u00admal times. Few riot\u00aders are mar\u00adried men who must be at work at 8:00 AM the next morn\u00ading.\u201d This was quite good. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/thebulwark\/how-many-bad-apples-are-there?e=4dca68488e\">Sim\u00adplic\u00adi\u00adty Is The Ene\u00admy &amp; Bad Apples<\/a> (Jonathan Last, The Bul\u00adwark): \u201cWhat\u2019s hap\u00adpen\u00ading in Amer\u00adi\u00adca right now is large and com\u00adpli\u00adcat\u00aded. We have a series of prob\u00adlems, some of which over\u00adlap, some of which do not. And attempts to solve them have, his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, been stymied by con\u00adflat\u00ading them and believ\u00ading that they are sim\u00adple and con\u00adnect\u00aded.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li>On the pan\u00addem\u00adic:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gfile.thedispatch.com\/p\/the-treason-of-epidemiologists\">The Trea\u00adson of Epi\u00addemi\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgists<\/a> (Jon\u00adah Gold\u00adberg, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cThe sim\u00adple fact is that what\u00adev\u00ader leg\u00adis\u00adla\u00adtion we\u2019re going to get, we\u2019d still get if the protests stopped this morn\u00ading. In fact, a rea\u00adson\u00adable per\u00adson would con\u00adclude we\u2019d be more like\u00adly to get it if they stopped now, because the more these things go on, the more oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion and resent\u00adment will grow.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1267281387486412801\">\u201cA thread about how protest\u00ading dur\u00ading a pan\u00addem\u00adic was described when con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives were doing it\u201d<\/a> (Matt Walsh, Twit\u00adter)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/03\/covid-19-surgisphere-who-world-health-organization-hydroxychloroquine\">Sur\u00adgi\u00adsphere: gov\u00adern\u00adments and WHO changed Covid-19 pol\u00adi\u00adcy based on sus\u00adpect data from tiny US com\u00adpa\u00adny<\/a> (Melis\u00adsa Dav\u00adey, Stephanie Kirch\u00adgaess\u00adner &amp; Sarah Bose\u00adley, The Guardian): \u201cThe World Health Orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion and a num\u00adber of nation\u00adal gov\u00adern\u00adments have changed their Covid-19 poli\u00adcies and treat\u00adments on the basis of flawed data from a lit\u00adtle-known US health\u00adcare ana\u00adlyt\u00adics com\u00adpa\u00adny, also call\u00ading into ques\u00adtion the integri\u00adty of key stud\u00adies pub\u00adlished in some of the world\u2019s most pres\u00adti\u00adgious med\u00adical jour\u00adnals. A Guardian inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtion can reveal the US-based com\u00adpa\u00adny Sur\u00adgi\u00adsphere, whose hand\u00adful of employ\u00adees appear to include a sci\u00adence fic\u00adtion writer and an adult-con\u00adtent mod\u00adel, has pro\u00advid\u00aded data for mul\u00adti\u00adple stud\u00adies on Covid-19 co-authored by its chief exec\u00adu\u00adtive, but has so far failed to ade\u00adquate\u00adly explain its data or method\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy.\u201d This is actu\u00adal\u00adly nuts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/03\/us\/cdc-coronavirus.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">The C.D.C. Wait\u00aded \u2018Its Entire Exis\u00adtence for This Moment.\u2019 What Went Wrong?<\/a> (Eric Lip\u00adton, Abby Good\u00adnough, Michael D. Shear, Megan Twohey, Apoor\u00adva Mandavilli,Sheri Fink &amp; Mark Walk\u00ader, New York Times): \u201c\u2026the C.D.C. is risk-averse, per\u00adfec\u00adtion\u00adist and ill suit\u00aded to impro\u00advis\u00ading in a quick\u00adly evolv\u00ading cri\u00adsis \u2014 par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly one that shuts down the coun\u00adtry and par\u00ada\u00adlyzes the econ\u00ado\u00admy.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/magazine\/2020\/06\/01\/museum-bible-is-winning-over-some-its-biggest-critics-jewish-scholars\/\">The Muse\u00adum of the Bible is win\u00adning over some of its biggest crit\u00adics: Jew\u00adish schol\u00adars<\/a> (Men\u00adachem Weck\u00ader, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cMintz believes Jew\u00adish schol\u00adars who denounced evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal tones in the muse\u00adum may have done so because they don\u2019t see eye-to-eye with its polit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive own\u00aders. But, she notes, the muse\u00adum itself caters to Jews. She cites a time when it arranged kosher food for an event in which her hus\u00adband, an Ortho\u00addox rab\u00adbi, par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpat\u00aded. \u2018They were just nice about it,\u2019 she says.\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/religionunplugged.com\/news\/2020\/5\/28\/christian-tiktok-content-is-often-censored-and-deleted-creators-say\">Chris\u00adt\u00adian Tik\u00adTok videos are cen\u00adsored and delet\u00aded in the US, cre\u00adators say<\/a> (Liza Van\u00adden\u00adboom, Reli\u00adgion Unplugged): \u201cChris\u00adt\u00adian con\u00adtent is often cen\u00adsored and removed from Tik\u00adTok, accord\u00ading to sev\u00ader\u00adal cre\u00adators on the plat\u00adform. The Chi\u00adna-based social media app hosts short, snip\u00adpy videos rang\u00ading from inspi\u00adra\u00adtional mini-speech\u00ades to musi\u00adcal and dance per\u00adfor\u00admances and is pop\u00adu\u00adlar with teenagers and young adults. The plat\u00adform reports over 800 mil\u00adlion active users, with 30 mil\u00adlion active users in the U.S. Researchers have grown con\u00adcerned over the app\u2019s reach and the pos\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of it bring\u00ading Chi\u00adnese-style cen\u00adsor\u00adship to main\u00adstream U.S. audi\u00adences.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ayjay.org\/technocracy-is-impossible\/\">Tech\u00adnoc\u00adra\u00adcy Is Impos\u00adsi\u00adble<\/a> (Alan Jacobs, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cLead\u00aders should <em>pay atten\u00adtion to sci\u00aden\u00adtists<\/em>, dra\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly more than the cur\u00adrent Pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion does, but an immu\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgist will say one thing, an epi\u00addemi\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgist some\u00adthing slight\u00adly dif\u00adfer\u00adent, an econ\u00ado\u00admist some\u00adthing alto\u00adgeth\u00ader oth\u00ader. The var\u00adi\u00adous sci\u00adences and aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic dis\u00adci\u00adplines will not speak with a sin\u00adgle voice, indeed <em>will not speak at all<\/em>: indi\u00advid\u00adual schol\u00adars will speak, and what they say will arise from a com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtion of their schol\u00adar\u00adly exper\u00adtise and their beliefs (derived from non-sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic sources) about what mat\u00adters most in life, and a good polit\u00adi\u00adcal leader will have the gen\u00ader\u00adal intel\u00adli\u00adgence and moral dis\u00adcern\u00adment to sift the var\u00adi\u00adous mes\u00adsages he or she receives and make a deci\u00adsion based on <em>all<\/em> the rel\u00ade\u00advant input.\u201d<\/li><li>There was a fight at the New York Times this week. I\u2019m not actu\u00adal\u00adly that inter\u00adest\u00aded in the op-ed that pro\u00advoked it, but I am quite inter\u00adest\u00aded in how the fight is play\u00ading out. The New York Times occu\u00adpies a spe\u00adcial place in the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan media ecosys\u00adtem and fights like this illu\u00admi\u00adnate some of what is hap\u00adpen\u00ading beneath the sur\u00adface.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/06\/04\/new-york-times-journalists-scared-to-have-an-op-ed-page\/\">New York Times Jour\u00adnal\u00adists Scared To Have an Op-Ed Page<\/a> (Matt Welch, Rea\u00adson): \u201cThis pub\u00adlish\u00ading flap, which in com\u00adpar\u00ada\u00adtive impor\u00adtance is a sput\u00adter\u00ading match next to the hell-infer\u00adno of spring 2020, is nonethe\u00adless sym\u00adbol\u00adic of a shift bear\u00ading more tec\u00adton\u00adic heft. Our lib\u00ader\u00adal insti\u00adtu\u00adtions, not unlike our con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adals, are nois\u00adi\u00adly aban\u00addon\u00ading lib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adism.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/06\/tom-cotton-new-york-times-op-ed-inside-story\/\">The Inside Sto\u00adry of the Tom Cot\u00adton Op-Ed that Rocked the New York Times<\/a> (Rich Lowry, Nation\u00adal Review): \u201cThis process, with back and forth over phone, email, and text, extend\u00aded through the morn\u00ading and after\u00adnoon on Wednes\u00adday. Cot\u00adton and his team then signed off on the final ver\u00adsion around 2:30 p.m. It was post\u00aded short\u00adly after. Then, all hell broke loose.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A Twit\u00adter thread from NY Times opin\u00adion colum\u00adnist Bari Weiss: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bariweiss\/status\/1268628680797978625\">\u201cThe civ\u00adil war inside The New York Times between the (most\u00adly young) wokes the (most\u00adly 40+) lib\u00ader\u00adals is the same one rag\u00ading inside oth\u00ader pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtions and com\u00adpa\u00adnies across the coun\u00adtry. The dynam\u00adic is always the same. (Thread.)\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/bv8n3z\/new-york-times-staffers-grill-leadership-over-tom-cotton-op-ed-during-all-hands?utm_campaign=sharebutton\">\u2018New York Times\u2019 Staffers Grill Lead\u00ader\u00adship Over Tom Cot\u00adton Op-Ed Dur\u00ading All-Hands<\/a> (Lau\u00adra Wag\u00adn\u00ader, Vice): \u201c\u2026the most infor\u00adma\u00adtive parts of the meet\u00ading came from the lengthy ques\u00adtion-and-answer por\u00adtion. Staffers asked for an autop\u00adsy of the piece and how it was pub\u00adlished; if com\u00adpa\u00adny lead\u00aders were plan\u00adning to address James Bennet\u2019s lead\u00ader\u00adship of the opin\u00adion sec\u00adtion, which has had \u2018sev\u00ader\u00adal mis\u00adfires\u2019; whether Opin\u00adion staff edi\u00adtor and writer Bari Weiss would be fired for \u2018open\u00adly bad mouth[ing] younger news col\u00adleagues on a plat\u00adform where they, because of strict com\u00adpa\u00adny pol\u00adi\u00adcy, could not defend them\u00adselves\u2019; whether the opin\u00adion sec\u00adtion had sug\u00adgest\u00aded the top\u00adic of the op-ed to Cot\u00adton; and what the <em>Times<\/em> would do to help retain and sup\u00adport Black employ\u00adees.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/media\/2020\/06\/03\/new-york-times-tom-cotton\/\">After staff uproar, New York Times says Sen. Tom Cot\u00adton op-ed urg\u00ading mil\u00adi\u00adtary incur\u00adsion into U.S. cities \u2018did not meet our stan\u00addards\u2019<\/a> (Ela\u00adhe Iza\u00addi, Paul Farhi and Sarah Elli\u00adson, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cBecause of its promi\u00adnence, the Times\u2019s op-ed page and colum\u00adnists often gen\u00ader\u00adate con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsy, though rarely from with\u00adin the news\u00adpa\u00adper itself. There was wide\u00adspread crit\u00adi\u00adcism in Feb\u00adru\u00adary, for exam\u00adple, when the Times pub\u00adlished an op-ed from a mem\u00adber of Afghanistan\u2019s Tal\u00adiban, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly because the paper failed to iden\u00adti\u00adfy the author\u2019s his\u00adto\u00adry of involve\u00adment in ter\u00adror\u00adist activ\u00adi\u00adties. There was lit\u00adtle inter\u00adnal oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion to the col\u00adumn, how\u00adev\u00ader, at least none that spilled into pub\u00adlic view.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/06\/04\/new-york-times-publisher-doubles-down-tom-cotton-op-ed\/\">New York Times has stopped defend\u00ading its Tom Cot\u00adton op-ed<\/a> (Erik Wem\u00adple, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cAs Jack Shafer has not\u00aded, the Times opin\u00adion page exists to pro\u00advoke. It has run op-eds by Moam\u00admar Gaddafi, Vladimir Putin and oth\u00aders. In a Decem\u00adber 2017 staff meet\u00ading, Ben\u00adnet addressed the dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adties of judg\u00ading when a piece goes too far: \u2018We\u2019ve pub\u00adlished Vladimir Putin,\u2019 Ben\u00adnet said in the meet\u00ading. \u2018Should we not allow Vladimir Putin into our pages? It\u2019s hard to say. It\u2019s hard to say that that would be doing a ser\u00advice to our read\u00aders. But as you can see, I mean, I strug\u00adgle to artic\u00adu\u00adlate what those bound\u00adaries are.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/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:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/nation-wishes-god-would-send-someone-who-could-unify-people-across-all-races-classes-genders-tribes-tongues\">Nation Wish\u00ades God Would Send Some\u00adone Who Could Uni\u00adfy Peo\u00adple Across Races, Class\u00ades, Gen\u00adders, Tribes, Tongues<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mZv8GQX8E1I\">Mal\u00adcolm Cor\u00adden Teach\u00ades Don\u00adald Trump How To Hold the Bible<\/a> (The Late Late Show With James Cor\u00adden, YouTube): six min\u00adutes.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ttd4985R0FQ\">A Few Bad Apples<\/a> (Chris Rock, YouTube): one and a half min\u00adutes, mild lan\u00adguage warn\u00ading<\/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=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2018\/05\/one-parameter-equation-can-exactly-fit-scatter-plot.html\">A One Para\u00adme\u00adter Equa\u00adtion That Can Exact\u00adly Fit Any Scat\u00adter Plot<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cOver\u00adfit\u00adting is pos\u00adsi\u00adble with just one para\u00adme\u00adter and so mod\u00adels with few\u00ader para\u00adme\u00adters are not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly prefer\u00adable even if they fit the data as well or bet\u00adter than mod\u00adels with more para\u00adme\u00adters.\u201d Researchers take note. The under\u00adly\u00ading math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adics paper is well-written and inter\u00adest\u00ading: <a href=\"https:\/\/colala.bcs.rochester.edu\/papers\/piantadosi2018one.pdf\">One Para\u00adme\u00adter Is Always Enough<\/a> (Steven T. Pianta\u00addosi) \u2014 among oth\u00ader things, it points out that you can smug\u00adgle in arbi\u00adtrar\u00adi\u00adly large amounts of data into an equa\u00adtion through a sin\u00adgle para\u00adme\u00adter because a num\u00adber can have infi\u00adnite dig\u00adits. Obvi\u00adous once stat\u00aded, but I don\u2019t know that it ever would have occurred to me. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/06\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-154\">vol\u00adume 154<\/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>Spe\u00adcif\u00adic sug\u00adges\u00adtions for police reform, var\u00adi\u00adous explain\u00aders and opin\u00adion pieces, and some weird news about Tik\u00adTok and Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty.<\/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":"Specific policy proposals for police reform, weird news about TikTok and Christianity, and a whole pile of op-eds and explainers.","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":[131,125,279,221,177,275,117,172,260],"class_list":["post-6062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-china","tag-criminal-justice","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-pandemic","tag-politics","tag-racism","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1zM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062","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=6062"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6071,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions\/6071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}