{"id":6096,"date":"2020-06-26T16:27:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T00:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6096"},"modified":"2020-06-26T16:27:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T00:27:37","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-256","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/06\/26\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-256","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 256"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/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

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. The Rebel Physi\u00adcist Try\u00ading to Fix Quan\u00adtum Mechan\u00adics<\/a> (Bob Hen\u00adder\u00adson, New York Times): \u201cBassi is a prac\u00adtic\u00ading Catholic and a believ\u00ader in God, some\u00adthing he says is \u2018unusu\u00adal\u2019 but \u2018not rare\u201d among his col\u00adleagues at the uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty. Ein\u00adstein called his own belief that real\u00adi\u00adty could be under\u00adstood \u2018reli\u00adgion,\u2019 and I won\u00addered if there\u2019s a con\u00adnec\u00adtion between Bassi\u2019s reli\u00adgious faith and that in what has become essen\u00adtial\u00adly a far-right posi\u00adtion in physics.\u201d I have no opin\u00adion on the under\u00adly\u00ading sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsy, but Bassi sounds like a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading per\u00adson.<\/li>
  2. What the Tent\u00admak\u00ading Busi\u00adness Was Real\u00adly Like for the Apos\u00adtle Paul<\/a> (Justin Tay\u00adlor, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201c[It] cost the Apos\u00adtle Paul to write his let\u00adters, includ\u00ading the secur\u00ading of mate\u00adri\u00adals and the hir\u00ading of a sec\u00adre\u00adtary to make a copy for him\u00adself. After exten\u00adsive research and cal\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adtion, he deter\u00admined that on the low side it would have cost him at least $2,000 in today\u2019s cur\u00adren\u00adcy to write 1 Corinthi\u00adans. (And that doesn\u2019t include the cost of send\u00ading some\u00adone like Titus on a long jour\u00adney to deliv\u00ader it.)\u201d Short and fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading.<\/li>
  3. The Tempt\u00ading of Neil Gor\u00adsuch<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cWe may offi\u00adcial\u00adly have three branch\u00ades of gov\u00adern\u00adment, but Amer\u00adi\u00adcans seem to accept that it\u2019s more like 2.25: A pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adcy that acts uni\u00adlat\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly when\u00adev\u00ader pos\u00adsi\u00adble, a high court that checks the White House and set\u00adtles cul\u00adture wars, and a Con\u00adgress that occa\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adly bestirs itself to pass a bud\u00adget.\u201d<\/li>
  4. Reli\u00adgious Amer\u00adi\u00adcans Have Less Pos\u00adi\u00adtive Atti\u00adtudes Toward Sci\u00adence, But This Does Not Extend to Oth\u00ader Cul\u00adtures<\/a> (Jonathon McPhetres, Jonathan Jong & Miron Zuck\u00ader\u00adman, Social Psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal and Per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty Sci\u00adence): \u201cIt is com\u00admon\u00adly claimed that sci\u00adence and reli\u00adgion are log\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly and psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly at odds with one anoth\u00ader. How\u00adev\u00ader, pre\u00advi\u00adous stud\u00adies have main\u00adly exam\u00adined Amer\u00adi\u00adcan sam\u00adples\u2026\u201d Raw data at https:\/\/osf.io\/t7w6x\/<\/a> DOI 10.1177\/1948550620923239<\/a>. The authors are pro\u00adfes\u00adsors at MIT, Oxford, and the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Rochester.<\/li>
  5. \u201cHe\u2019s the Cho\u00adsen One to Run Amer\u00adi\u00adca\u201d: Inside the Cult of Trump, His Ral\u00adlies Are Church and He Is the Gospel<\/a> (Jeff Sharlet, Van\u00adi\u00adty Fair): \u201cNon\u00adbe\u00adliev\u00aders roll their eyes over what they see as the gob\u00ads\u00admack\u00ading hypocrisy of Trump as a tri\u00adbune of fam\u00adi\u00adly val\u00adues, the dopi\u00adness of the rubes who con\u00adsid\u00ader him a moral man. Non\u00adbe\u00adliev\u00aders, in oth\u00ader words, miss the point. They lack gno\u00adsis. Very few believ\u00aders deny Trump\u2019s sor\u00addid past. Some turn to the old Chris\u00adt\u00adian ready-made of redemp\u00adtion: Their man was lost, but now he\u2019s found. Oth\u00aders love him pre\u00adcise\u00adly because<\/em> he is a sinner\u2014if a man of such vast, crass, and open appetites can embody the nation (and real\u00adly, who is more American\u2014vast, crass, and open\u2014than Trump), then you too, stu\u00addent of porn, mon\u00adster truck lover, ulti\u00admate fight\u00ader in your dreams and games, can claim an anoint\u00ading.\u201d The title filled me with low expec\u00adta\u00adtions, but the arti\u00adcle has some inter\u00adest\u00ading reflec\u00adtions on Gnos\u00adti\u00adcism in mod\u00adern Amer\u00adi\u00adca. <\/li>
  6. On reli\u00adgious lib\u00ader\u00adty:\n