{"id":6340,"date":"2020-10-09T18:31:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T02:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2020-10-09T18:31:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T02:31:13","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/10\/09\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-271","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 271"},"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\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/arts-letters\/articles\/woke-language-privilege\">The Lan\u00adguage of Priv\u00adi\u00adlege<\/a> (Nicholas Clair\u00admont, Tablet Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cSo, in the end, the ques\u00adtion raised by wok\u00ade\u00adness is a sim\u00adple one: Doesn\u2019t it actu\u00adal\u00adly just favor rich peo\u00adple?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/the-students-left-behind-by-remote-learning\">The Stu\u00addents Left Behind by Remote Learn\u00ading<\/a> (Alec MacGillis, ProP\u00adub\u00adli\u00adca): \u201cBut it was not hard to see how par\u00adents could have got the impres\u00adsion that chil\u00addren were at great risk. Towns and cities had closed play\u00adgrounds, wrap\u00adping police tape around them. Peo\u00adple in heav\u00adi\u00adly Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic areas were wear\u00ading masks even on emp\u00adty streets. There may have been an implic\u00adit\u00adly polit\u00adi\u00adcal dynam\u00adic at work: the greater the threat posed by COVID-19, the greater Trump\u2019s fail\u00adure in not con\u00adtain\u00ading it.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>This is a very long but absolute\u00adly engross\u00ading arti\u00adcle. High\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded that you at least skim it.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanpurpose.com\/articles\/liberalism-and-its-discontent\/\">Lib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adism and Its Dis\u00adcon\u00adtents<\/a> (Fran\u00adcis Fukuya\u00adma, Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Pur\u00adpose): \u201cDemoc\u00adra\u00adcy itself is being chal\u00adlenged by author\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan states like Rus\u00adsia and Chi\u00adna that manip\u00adu\u00adlate or dis\u00adpense with free and fair elec\u00adtions. But the more insid\u00adi\u00adous threat aris\u00ades from pop\u00adulists with\u00adin exist\u00ading lib\u00ader\u00adal democ\u00adra\u00adcies who are using the legit\u00adi\u00adma\u00adcy they gain through their elec\u00adtoral man\u00addates to chal\u00adlenge or under\u00admine lib\u00ader\u00adal insti\u00adtu\u00adtions.\u201d The author directs the Cen\u00adter on Democ\u00adra\u00adcy, Devel\u00adop\u00adment and the Rule of Law at Stan\u00adford Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty. This is from the inau\u00adgur\u00adal issue of a promis\u00ading new mag\u00ada\u00adzine.\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2020\/10\/suicide-of-the-liberals\">Sui\u00adcide of the Lib\u00ader\u00adals<\/a> (Gary Saul Mor\u00adson, First Things): \u201cOne some\u00adtimes hears that \u2018the pen\u00addu\u00adlum is bound to swing back.\u2019 But how does one know there is a pen\u00addu\u00adlum at all, rather than\u2014let us say\u2014a snow\u00adball accel\u00ader\u00adat\u00ading down\u00adhill? It is unwise to com\u00adfort one\u00adself with metaphors. When a par\u00adty is will\u00ading to push its pow\u00ader as far as it can go, it will keep going until it meets suf\u00adfi\u00adcient oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion.\u201d The author is a human\u00adi\u00adties prof at North\u00adwest\u00adern.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2020\/10\/diversity-at-the-oscars\">Diver\u00adsi\u00adty At the Oscars<\/a> (Fil\u00adip Mazur\u00adczak, First Things): \u201cAt a time of declin\u00ading read\u00ader\u00adship world\u00adwide, and because of the mag\u00adi\u00adcal con\u00adnec\u00adtion hun\u00addreds of mil\u00adlions have to the movies, film is per\u00adhaps the most effec\u00adtive medi\u00adum with which to edu\u00adcate peo\u00adple about his\u00adto\u00adry. Cer\u00adtain top\u00adics, such as the Armen\u00adian Geno\u00adcide or com\u00admu\u00adnist crimes, deserve a defin\u00adi\u00adtive epic on the scale of <em>Schindler\u2019s List <\/em>or <em>Sav\u00ading Pri\u00advate Ryan<\/em>. But iron\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, the Academy\u2019s new diver\u00adsi\u00adty rules will make it even less like\u00adly for such top\u00adics to receive the sil\u00adver screen treat\u00adment they deserve.\u201d The author is a Ph.D. can\u00addi\u00addate in his\u00adto\u00adry.<\/li>\n<li>Arme\u00adnia is under attack by Azer\u00adbai\u00adjan. Hear\u00ading that is as dis\u00adtress\u00ading as hear\u00ading that a Ger\u00adman politi\u00adcian is mak\u00ading loud com\u00adplaints against the Jews.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/october\/nagorno-karabakh-armenia-azerbaijan-christian-muslim-confli.html\">Arme\u00adni\u00adans Fight to Hold Ancient Home\u00adland With\u00adin Azer\u00adbai\u00adjan<\/a> (Jayson Casper, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cFierce fight\u00ading has bro\u00adken out in the Cau\u00adca\u00adsus Moun\u00adtains between the Caspi\u00adan and Black Seas, pit\u00adting Chris\u00adt\u00adian Arme\u00adni\u00adans ver\u00adsus Mus\u00adlim Azeris. But is it right to employ their reli\u00adgious labels?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/defending-christian-armenia-turkey-nagorno-karabakh-massacres\/\">Defend\u00ading Chris\u00adt\u00adian Arme\u00adnia<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201cMost Amer\u00adi\u00adcans have no idea that in the 20th cen\u00adtu\u00adry, the Turks waged a true geno\u00adcide against the Armen\u00adian Chris\u00adt\u00adian peo\u00adple. The book to read is 2019\u2019s <em>The Thir\u00adty-Year Geno\u00adcide: Turkey\u2019s Destruc\u00adtion of Its Chris\u00adt\u00adian Minori\u00adties, 1894\u20131924<\/em>, by the Israeli his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adans Ben\u00adny Mor\u00adris and Dror Ze\u2019evi. I had to put it down \u2014 a lot \u2014 because its record of the atroc\u00adi\u00adties the Turks wrought on inno\u00adcent Arme\u00adni\u00adans in the eth\u00adnic and reli\u00adgious cleans\u00ading of Turkey was too much to bear.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/providencemag.com\/2020\/09\/turkey-normalizing-militant-jihadism-azerbaijan-artsakh-nagorno-karabakh-armenia\/\">Turkey is Nor\u00admal\u00adiz\u00ading Mil\u00adi\u00adtant Jihadism<\/a> (Armen V. Sahakyan, Prov\u00adi\u00addence): \u201cAnkara\u2019s desta\u00adbi\u00adliz\u00ader-in-chief Recep Tayyip Erdo\u00c4\u0178an has now extend\u00aded his men\u00adac\u00ading mil\u00adi\u00adtary involve\u00adment to the South Cau\u00adca\u00adsus, where Turk\u00adish army per\u00adson\u00adnel are assist\u00ading Ankara\u2019s satel\u00adlite state Azer\u00adbai\u00adjan in a mas\u00adsive inva\u00adsion against Art\u00adsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Arme\u00adnia. But what grabbed inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal head\u00adlines are the appalling reports of Turkey\u2019s delib\u00ader\u00adate mis\u00aduse of the \u2018reli\u00adgious card\u2019 in the Art\u00adsakh-Azer\u00adbai\u00adjan con\u00adflict and its trans\u00adport of 4,000 jihadist ter\u00adror\u00adists in Syr\u00adia to fight against Chris\u00adt\u00adian Arme\u00adni\u00adans.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>I\u2019m going to link to some polit\u00adi\u00adcal arti\u00adcles which inter\u00adest\u00aded me, some of which are extreme\u00adly par\u00adti\u00adsan. If you only have time to read one, please read one whose slant you dis\u00adagree with. Giv\u00aden that I could not pos\u00adsi\u00adbly agree with all of these arti\u00adcles, I hope it is clear that the stan\u00addard dis\u00adclaimers apply even more than usu\u00adal. \n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/what-makes-a-vote-moral-or-immoral-the-ethics-of-voting\/\">What Makes A Vote Moral or Immoral? The Ethics of Vot\u00ading<\/a> (Jonathan Lee\u00adman, 9 Marks): \u201c\u2026I think I would be pas\u00adtoral\u00adly over\u00adstep\u00adping were I to tell you how I think you pos\u00adi\u00adtive\u00adly <em>should <\/em>vote, assum\u00ading there is more than one per\u00admis\u00adsi\u00adble option (which includes not vot\u00ading, vot\u00ading for a third par\u00adty, writ\u00ading in a can\u00addi\u00addate, or even civ\u00adil dis\u00adobe\u00addi\u00adence if you live in a coun\u00adtry with com\u00adpul\u00adso\u00adry vot\u00ading). At most, I think a pas\u00adtor can, from time to time, warn you against paths you should <em>not <\/em>take. Sel\u00addom if ever should he tell you which path you <em>should<\/em> take, assum\u00ading that doing so clos\u00ades down oth\u00ader moral\u00adly per\u00admis\u00adsi\u00adble paths.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dougwils.com\/books-and-culture\/s7-engaging-the-culture\/7-reasons-why-it-is-possible-for-christians-to-vote-for-trump-in-2020-without-getting-a-defiled-conscience-and-or-losing-their-soul.html\">7 Rea\u00adsons Why It Is Pos\u00adsi\u00adble for Chris\u00adtians to Vote for Trump in 2020 With\u00adout Get\u00adting a Defiled Con\u00adscience and\/or Los\u00ading Their Soul<\/a> (Dou\u00adglas Wil\u00adson, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cSo the pro\u00adpos\u00adal that fol\u00adlows is intend\u00aded to enable you to go and vote for Trump, ide\u00adal\u00adly with\u00adout a mask, and not give way after\u00adward to any temp\u00adta\u00adtion to flush red or laugh a lit\u00adtle furtive <em>heh heh<\/em> if asked about it. You are not a crim\u00adi\u00adnal. You are not insane. You are not a fas\u00adcist. You are not a haz\u00adard to the repub\u00adlic. You are not try\u00ading to ring in <em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>. You have good <em>rea\u00adsons<\/em>, oh ye eas\u00adi\u00adly gaslit evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2020\/09\/71762\/\">Chris\u00adt\u00adian Wit\u00adness Demands That We Defend Truth\u2014and Reject Don\u00adald Trump<\/a> (O. Alan Noble, Pub\u00adlic Dis\u00adcourse): \u201cBy its very nature, false\u00adhood breeds chaos. To sup\u00adport Trump would require me to sup\u00adport four more years of epis\u00adte\u00admo\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal chaos. I fear that if I were to sup\u00adport his reelec\u00adtion, even grudg\u00ading\u00adly, even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly I would find myself apol\u00ado\u00adgiz\u00ading for his lies, and then excus\u00ading his lies, and then defend\u00ading his lies, and final\u00adly believ\u00ading his lies. Bet\u00adter men and women than I have grown con\u00adfused in just this way since 2016.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2020\/10\/19\/voting-for-life\/\">Vot\u00ading for Life<\/a> (Ramesh Pon\u00adnu\u00adru &amp; Robert P. George, Nation\u00adal Review): \u201cNei\u00adther of us has endorsed Don\u00adald Trump. Both of us have been intense\u00adly crit\u00adi\u00adcal of him on issues of per\u00adson\u00adal char\u00adac\u00adter and, in some cas\u00ades, pub\u00adlic pol\u00adi\u00adcy. We do not claim, as some have claimed, that Catholics and oth\u00ader pro-life cit\u00adi\u00adzens have an oblig\u00ada\u00adtion to cast their bal\u00adlot for him. The premis\u00ades of the argu\u00adment against abor\u00adtion do not by them\u00adselves com\u00adpel such a stance. Peo\u00adple who share the view that the abor\u00adtion license is a pro\u00adfound injus\u00adtice on a mas\u00adsive scale that must be res\u00adolute\u00adly opposed can reach dif\u00adfer\u00adent con\u00adclu\u00adsions about whether Trump deserves their vote. If, how\u00adev\u00ader, the con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions we have adduced in this essay are sound, they prac\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly pre\u00adclude a vote for Biden.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2020\/10\/02\/new-evangelical-leaders-support-biden\/\">A new group of evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal lead\u00aders forms in sup\u00adport of Biden<\/a> (Sarah Pul\u00adliam Bai\u00adley, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cThe group favor\u00ading Biden, set up by long\u00adtime evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal lead\u00aders Ron Sider and Rich Mouw, includes sev\u00ader\u00adal lead\u00aders who have since retired from major evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal insti\u00adtu\u00adtions. Among them is John Huff\u00adman, who was board chair of Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today mag\u00ada\u00adzine, a life\u00adlong Repub\u00adli\u00adcan and for\u00admer pas\u00adtor to Pres\u00adi\u00addent Richard Nixon. He is plan\u00adning to vote for a Demo\u00adc\u00adrat for the first time.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/johnhcochrane.blogspot.com\/2020\/09\/youre-hired-mulligan-review.html\">\u201cYou\u2019re hired\u201d Mul\u00adli\u00adgan review<\/a> (John Cochrane, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cFor in much of the rhetoric about \u2018sci\u00adence,\u2019 and \u2018experts,\u2019 we are exhort\u00aded to ignore every day truths and the scat\u00adtered infor\u00adma\u00adtion of actu\u00adal peo\u00adple, and sur\u00adren\u00adder to unac\u00adcount\u00adable tech\u00adnocrats, who chat and social climb with each oth\u00ader, but who have been wrong about so much late\u00adly.\u201d The author is a senior fel\u00adlow at Hoover. I learned more from this book review than I do from many books.<\/li>\n  <\/ul><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-10-08\/scarlet-fever-incidence-on-the-rise-bacteria-infected-by-viruses\/12740806\">Scar\u00adlet fever mak\u00ading a come\u00adback thanks to a tox\u00adic virus, researchers say<\/a> (Hol\u00adly Richard\u00adson, Aus\u00adtralia Broad\u00adcast\u00ading Cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtion): \u201cPro\u00adfes\u00adsor Walk\u00ader said while one might expect that a virus infect\u00ading a bac\u00adte\u00adria was bad for the bac\u00adte\u00adria, this was not always so. \u2018In this case, the bac\u00adte\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal virus is car\u00adry\u00ading three new tox\u00adins and because it\u2019s car\u00adry\u00ading those tox\u00adins when it infects the bac\u00adte\u00adria, it gives the bac\u00adte\u00adria this extra vir\u00adu\u00adlence poten\u00adtial.\u2019\u201d \u00f0\u0178\u2018\u20ac This is like two supervil\u00adlains team\u00ading up.<\/li>\n<\/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=Nu1ol_3eDs0\">Boris Wild Does Card Mag\u00adic<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): ten min\u00adutes<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2020-10-04?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DilbertDailyStrip+%28Dilbert+Daily+Strip%29\">Pos\u00adi\u00adtive effects of COVID<\/a> (Dil\u00adbert)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2020\/10\/03\">Bad The\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/ships\">The Tro\u00adjan War<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2368\/\">Big\u00adger Prob\u00adlem<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/man-who-believes-hes-on-the-right-side-of-history-currently-rounding-up-the-jews\/\">Man Who Believes He\u2019s On The Right Side Of His\u00adto\u00adry Announces Crack\u00addown On The Jews<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/296661\/below-grand-central-terminal-a-secret-man-cave.html\">Met\u00adro\u00adpol\u00adi\u00adtan Trans\u00adporta\u00adtion Author\u00adi\u00adty Inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtors Finds Secret Man Cave Under Grand Cen\u00adtral Ter\u00admi\u00adnal in New York City<\/a> (News\u00ader) \u2014 this is real.<\/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:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2019\/april\/rosalind-picard-mit-professor-meets-author-knowledge.html\">An MIT Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor Meets the Author of All Knowl\u00adedge<\/a> (Ros\u00adalind Picard, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cI once thought I was too smart to believe in God. Now I know I was an arro\u00adgant fool who snubbed the great\u00adest Mind in the cosmos\u2014the Author of all sci\u00adence, math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adics, art, and every\u00adthing else there is to know. Today I walk humbly, hav\u00ading received the most unde\u00adserved grace. I walk with joy, along\u00adside the most amaz\u00ading Com\u00adpan\u00adion any\u00adone could ask for, filled with desire to keep learn\u00ading and explor\u00ading.\u201d First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/03\/15\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-194\">vol\u00adume 194<\/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>. 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