{"id":6389,"date":"2020-11-13T17:35:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T01:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6389"},"modified":"2020-11-13T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T01:35:40","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/11\/13\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-276","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 276"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/nagorno-karabkah-drones-azerbaijan-aremenia\/2020\/11\/11\/441bcbd2-193d-11eb-8bda-814ca56e138b_story.html\">Azerbaijan\u2019s drones owned the bat\u00adtle\u00adfield in Nagorno-Karabakh \u2014 and showed future of war\u00adfare<\/a> (Robyn Dixon, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cIn a mat\u00adter of months, how\u00adev\u00ader, Nagorno-Karabakh has become per\u00adhaps the most pow\u00ader\u00adful exam\u00adple of how small and rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly inex\u00adpen\u00adsive attack drones can change the dimen\u00adsions of con\u00adflicts once dom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded by ground bat\u00adtles and tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal air pow\u00ader.\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/the-us-divorce-rate-has-hit-a-50-year-low\">The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low<\/a> (Wendy Wang, Insti\u00adtute for Fam\u00adi\u00adly Stud\u00adies): \u201cDivorce in Amer\u00adi\u00adca has been falling fast in recent years, and it just hit a record low in 2019. For every 1,000 mar\u00adriages in the last year, only 14.9 end\u00aded in divorce, accord\u00ading to the new\u00adly released Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty Sur\u00advey data from the Cen\u00adsus Bureau. This is the low\u00adest rate we have seen in 50 years. It is even slight\u00adly low\u00ader than 1970, when 15 mar\u00adriages end\u00aded in divorce per 1,000 mar\u00adriages.\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2020\/11\/07\/gender-activists-are-trying-to-cancel-my-book-why-is-silicon-valley-helping-them\/\">Gen\u00adder Activists Are Try\u00ading to Can\u00adcel My Book. Why is Sil\u00adi\u00adcon Val\u00adley Help\u00ading Them?<\/a> (Abi\u00adgail Shri\u00ader, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cThis is what cen\u00adsor\u00adship looks like in 21st-cen\u00adtu\u00adry Amer\u00adi\u00adca. It isn\u2019t the gov\u00adern\u00adment send\u00ading police to your home. It\u2019s Sil\u00adi\u00adcon Val\u00adley oli\u00adgop\u00ado\u00adlists imple\u00adment\u00ading black\u00adouts and appeas\u00ading social-jus\u00adtice mobs, while send\u00ading dis\u00adfa\u00advored ideas down mem\u00ado\u00adry holes. And the forces of cen\u00adsor\u00adship are win\u00adning. Not only because their efforts to cen\u00adsor leave almost no trace. They are win\u00adning because, thus far, most Amer\u00adi\u00adcans have been con\u00adtent to sur\u00adren\u00adder vir\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly every lib\u00ader\u00adty in exchange for the lux\u00adu\u00adry of hav\u00ading prod\u00aducts deliv\u00adered to their door.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2020\/10\/how-corporations-can-delete-your-existence\/\">How cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtions can delete your exis\u00adtence<\/a> (Gavin Haynes, Unherd): \u201cIn the bank\u00ading system\u2019s capac\u00adi\u00adty to dis\u00adable the indi\u00advid\u00adual with\u00adout pro-active\u00adly doing them harm, there\u2019s an echo of the ele\u00adgance of the Chi\u00adnese government\u2019s social cred\u00adit.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>On the valid\u00adi\u00adty of the elec\u00adtion:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2020\/11\/9\/no-ones-covering-how-trumps-loss-is-a-faith-crisis-for-charismatics-and-pentecostals\">Who\u2019s cov\u00ader\u00ading this? Are charis\u00admat\u00adics and Pen\u00adte\u00adcostals behind Trump\u2019s refusal to con\u00adcede?<\/a> (Julia Duin, GetRe\u00adli\u00adgion): \u201c\u2026these folks are a sub\u00adset \u2014 a move\u00adment among charismatics\/pentecostals \u2014 of a Chris\u00adt\u00adian sub\u00adset and not well known to the gen\u00ader\u00adal pub\u00adlic. How\u00adev\u00ader, when you have flocks of Repub\u00adli\u00adcans call\u00ading foul on the elec\u00adtion and the president\u2019s most high-pro\u00adfile pas\u00adtor is hav\u00ading night\u00adly prayer meet\u00adings because she is cer\u00adtain that prophets have decreed four more years for Trump, it\u2019s time more reporters give a lis\u00adten.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/11\/10\/we-can-be-confident-trump-voter-fraud-claims-are-baloney\/\">How we can be con\u00adfi\u00addent that Trump\u2019s vot\u00ader fraud claims are baloney<\/a> (Hen\u00adry Olsen, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cMass vot\u00ader fraud should be rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly easy to detect, even if it might be dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to prove. Since we elect pres\u00adi\u00addents through the elec\u00adtoral col\u00adlege, polit\u00adi\u00adcal oper\u00ada\u00adtives try\u00ading to nefar\u00adi\u00adous\u00adly pro\u00adduce a vic\u00adto\u00adry would focus on states crit\u00adi\u00adcal to an elec\u00adtoral col\u00adlege major\u00adi\u00adty\u2026. None of these ear\u00adly warn\u00ading signs of fraud appear in the results.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/frenchpress.thedispatch.com\/p\/the-presidential-election-was-legitimate\">The Pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial Elec\u00adtion Was Legit\u00adi\u00admate. Con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adcies Are Not.<\/a> (David French, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cThe count\u00ading must con\u00adtin\u00adue and all legal chal\u00adlenges must be heard, but as of this moment there is nothing\u2014absolutely nothing\u2014that should cause Amer\u00adi\u00adcans to believe that this elec\u00adtion was ille\u00adgit\u00adi\u00admate, and it is shame\u00adful and dan\u00adger\u00adous for any\u00adone to sug\u00adgest or allege oth\u00ader\u00adwise.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dougwils.com\/books-and-culture\/s7-engaging-the-culture\/a-primer-in-basic-electoral-skepticism.html\">A Primer in Basic Elec\u00adtoral Skep\u00adti\u00adcism<\/a> (Dou\u00adglas Wil\u00adson, blog): \u201cWe have reports that every\u00adthing is fine and nor\u00admal. We have reports of vot\u00ader fraud. We do not know which reports are true. <em>But we do know which reports are cen\u00adsored<\/em>. And if that doesn\u2019t tell you some\u00adthing, then you are not pay\u00ading atten\u00adtion.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edwardfeser.blogspot.com\/2020\/11\/means-motive-and-opportunity.html\">Means, motive, and oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty<\/a> (Ed Fes\u00ader, blog): \u201c\u2026some main\u00adstream his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adans and jour\u00adnal\u00adists, includ\u00ading lib\u00ader\u00adal ones, think that these states were indeed stolen from Nixon [in 1960]. For exam\u00adple, Kennedy biog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader Sey\u00admour Hersh judges that the elec\u00adtion was stolen. His\u00adto\u00adri\u00adan Robert Dallek thinks that at least Illi\u00adnois was stolen, via Daley\u2019s polit\u00adi\u00adcal machine. His\u00adto\u00adri\u00adan William Rorabaugh thinks that Nixon may have been cheat\u00aded out of as many as 100,000 to 200,000 votes in Johnson\u2019s cor\u00adrupt Texas.\u201d Wild stuff that I did not know. The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy at Pasade\u00adna City Col\u00adlege.&nbsp;<\/li><li>My own view: the elec\u00adtion was valid and of course there was cheat\u00ading. Peo\u00adple cheat at cards, peo\u00adple cheat on their tax\u00ades. Why in the world would\u00adn\u2019t peo\u00adple try to cheat in an elec\u00adtion? But it seems unlike\u00adly to me that despite all the eyes on the process any cheat\u00ading was sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant enough to change the out\u00adcome of the elec\u00adtion. Hav\u00ading said that, it is inevitable that peo\u00adple are skep\u00adti\u00adcal. The media and the tech firms have made them\u00adselves so par\u00adti\u00adsan that they have for\u00adfeit\u00aded the trust which would be very handy for them to have right now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Lessons from the elec\u00adtion\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2020\/november-web-only\/political-prophecy-false-bible-scholar-trump-election.html\">When Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Prophe\u00adcies Don\u2019t Come to Pass<\/a> (Craig Keen\u00ader, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cThis year, many Chris\u00adtians have lis\u00adtened to lead\u00aders proph\u00adesy that Trump would again win the elec\u00adtion. Some, such as Jere\u00admi\u00adah John\u00adson, have con\u00adtin\u00adued to affirm that their prophe\u00adcy will turn out to be true in the end. Oth\u00aders, such as Kris Val\u00adlot\u00adton, have pub\u00adlicly apol\u00ado\u00adgized. For now, many will decide that the prophe\u00adcy was con\u00adtin\u00adgent, mist\u00adimed or, more like\u00adly, mis\u00adtak\u00aden.\u201d This is out\u00adstand\u00ading.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/11\/why-california-rejected-affirmative-action-again\/617049\/?utm_source=feed\">Why Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia Reject\u00aded Racial Pref\u00ader\u00adences Again<\/a> (Conor Frieder\u00ads\u00addorf, The Atlantic): \u201cAs I under\u00adstand the state\u2019s his\u00adto\u00adry, the country\u2019s his\u00adto\u00adry, and the world\u2019s his\u00adto\u00adry, gov\u00adern\u00adment offi\u00adcials can\u00adnot be trust\u00aded to fac\u00adtor race into deci\u00adsion mak\u00ading with\u00adout treat\u00ading peo\u00adple unjust\u00adly, and inter\u00adgroup stig\u00admas and resent\u00adments tend to increase when any group is giv\u00aden pref\u00ader\u00aden\u00adtial treat\u00adment.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/frenchpress.thedispatch.com\/p\/may-god-bless-president-biden\">May God Bless Pres\u00adi\u00addent Biden<\/a> (David French, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cSo here\u2019s my sim\u00adple prayer for Pres\u00adi\u00addent Biden: May God bless him and grant him the wis\u00addom to know what\u2019s just, the courage to do what\u2019s just, and the sta\u00admi\u00adna to with\u00adstand the rig\u00adors of the most dif\u00adfi\u00adcult job in the world. May his vir\u00adtu\u00adous plans pre\u00advail and may his unright\u00adeous efforts fail. And may God pro\u00adtect him from all harm.\u201d Amen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slowboring.com\/p\/welcome-to-slow-boring\">A Moment Of Per\u00adil<\/a> (Matt Ygle\u00adsias, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cBut the broad real\u00adi\u00adty remains that in order to obtain and wield polit\u00adi\u00adcal pow\u00ader, Democ\u00adrats need to embrace can\u00addi\u00addates who are less reflec\u00adtive of the pro\u00adgres\u00adsive world\u00adview of young col\u00adlege grad\u00adu\u00adates, and they need to run them in states that are less right-wing than Alaba\u00adma or Mon\u00adtana.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/11\/12\/2020-election-analysis-democrats-future-david-shor-interview-436334\">How 2020 Killed Off Democ\u00adrats\u2019 Demo\u00adgraph\u00adic Hopes<\/a> (Zack Stan\u00adton, Politi\u00adco): \u201cFor years, the Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic Par\u00adty has oper\u00adat\u00aded under one immutable assump\u00adtion: Long-term demo\u00adgraph\u00adic trends would give the par\u00adty some\u00adthing like a per\u00adma\u00adnent major\u00adi\u00adty as the coun\u00adtry as a whole grows less white and more urban. Pres\u00adi\u00addent Don\u00adald Trump\u2019s reliance on the pol\u00adi\u00adtics of racial resent\u00adment would only quick\u00aden the process, solid\u00adi\u00adfy\u00ading sup\u00adport for Democ\u00adrats among peo\u00adple of col\u00ador. Then came Novem\u00adber 3, 2020. And all those assump\u00adtions now seem like total non\u00adsense.\u201d An inter\u00adview with David Shor.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepullrequest.com\/p\/latinx-plaining-the-election\">Lat\u00adinX-plain\u00ading the elec\u00adtion<\/a> (Anto\u00adnio Gar\u00adcia-Mar\u00adtinez, The Pull Request): \u201cThe prob\u00adlem with bas\u00ading a polit\u00adi\u00adcal plat\u00adform on white guilt is that, at some point, you run out of either whites or guilt. Which is what hap\u00adpens in a tru\u00adly major\u00adi\u00adty-minor\u00adi\u00adty nation when non-whites (at least as cur\u00adrent\u00adly defined) assume their equal place in the eco\u00adnom\u00adic and polit\u00adi\u00adcal fir\u00adma\u00adment.\u201d The author nor\u00admal\u00adly writes about tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy issues (hence the title of the newslet\u00adter).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2020\/11\/secularization-and-the-tribulations-of-the-american-working-class.html\">Sec\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adiza\u00adtion and the Tribu\u00adla\u00adtions of the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Work\u00ading-Class<\/a> (Tyler Cowen, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cI praise the schol\u00adar\u00adship and courage of Bri\u00adan N. Wheaton.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.undergroundthomist.org\/getting-past-the-gatekeepers\">Get\u00adting Past the Gate\u00adkeep\u00aders<\/a> (J. Budziszews\u00adki, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cYour gate\u00adkeep\u00aders want you to write a book more like the one <em>they <\/em>would have writ\u00adten. If you do make revi\u00adsions, make them in such a way that the book becomes not less your own, but even more your own. That\u2019s not pride. If God con\u00adde\u00adscends to allow cer\u00adtain insights to the his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adans on your board, how won\u00adder\u00adful! Let them write about them! Read and learn from them! But if He con\u00adde\u00adscends to allow cer\u00adtain oth\u00ader insights to you, you should write about yours, not theirs.\u201d The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of pol\u00adi\u00adtics and phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy at UT Austin.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>COVID-relat\u00aded\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/story\/2020-11-12\/covid-19-spread-at-thanksgiving-holiday-gatherings-could-be-like-maine-wedding\">Super-spread\u00ader wed\u00adding par\u00adty shows COVID hol\u00adi\u00adday dan\u00adgers<\/a> (Karen Kaplan, LA Times): \u201cOnly 55 peo\u00adple attend\u00aded the Aug. 7 recep\u00adtion at the Big Moose Inn in Millinock\u00adet. But one of those guests arrived with a coro\u00adn\u00adavirus infec\u00adtion. Over the next 38 days, the virus spread to 176 oth\u00ader peo\u00adple. Sev\u00aden of them died. None of the vic\u00adtims who lost their lives had attend\u00aded the par\u00adty.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/covid-mobility.stanford.edu\/\">COVID-19 Mobil\u00adi\u00adty Net\u00adwork Mod\u00adel\u00ading<\/a> (Stan\u00adford): \u201cOur mod\u00adel pre\u00addicts that a small minor\u00adi\u00adty of \u2018super\u00adspread\u00ader\u2019 POIs [points of inter\u00adest] account for a large major\u00adi\u00adty of infec\u00adtions and that restrict\u00ading max\u00adi\u00admum occu\u00adpan\u00adcy at each POI is more effec\u00adtive than uni\u00adform\u00adly reduc\u00ading mobil\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d Click on \u201cSim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion\u201d and play around with the Reli\u00adgious Orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtions tog\u00adgle. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a friend of the min\u00adistry, who drew my atten\u00adtion espe\u00adcial\u00adly to fig\u00adures 2d and 3c in the appen\u00addix of the paper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2020\/11\/judge-richard-neely-rip.html\">Judge Richard Neely, RIP \u2014 Mar\u00adgin\u00adal REVOLUTION<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): this is amaz\u00ading. It\u2019s short, so please read the whole thing.&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/20\/11\/q-what-is-a-hole-a-were-not-sure\">Q: What Is a Hole? A: We\u2019re Not Sure!<\/a> (Jason Kot\u00adtke, per\u00adson\u00adal web\u00adsite): \u201cAs for straws \u2014 rea\u00adson tells me they only have one hole but I know in my heart they have two.\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2020-11-13\">Cli\u00admate Change And Wal\u00adly<\/a> (Dil\u00adbert)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atrandomcomics.com\/at-random-comics-home\/2020\/11\/13\/new-blinds\">New Blinds<\/a> (At Ran\u00addom)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/local-man-wouldnt-believe-there-was-election-fraud-except-media-big-tech-corporations-keep-screaming-at-him-that-there-wasnt\/\">Local Man Would\u00adn\u2019t Have Believed There Was Elec\u00adtion Fraud Except Media, Big Tech Keep Insist\u00ading That There Was\u00adn\u2019t<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/death-7\">Death<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/bayesian\">Bayesian<\/a> (SMBC) \u2014 this feels very Stan\u00adford to me<\/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:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2019\/06\/06\/asymmetric-weapons-gone-bad\/\">Asym\u00admet\u00adric Weapons Gone Bad<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Slate Star Codex): \u201cEvery day we do things that we can\u2019t eas\u00adi\u00adly jus\u00adti\u00adfy. If some\u00adone were to argue that we shouldn\u2019t do the thing, they would win eas\u00adi\u00adly. We would respond by cut\u00adting that per\u00adson out of our life, and con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading to do the thing.\u201d This entire series of arti\u00adcles (this is the fourth, the oth\u00aders are linked at the top of it) is 100% worth read\u00ading. It\u2019s a very inter\u00adest\u00ading way to think about the lim\u00adits of rea\u00adson and the wis\u00addom hid\u00adden in tra\u00addi\u00adtion. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/06\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-206\">vol\u00adume 206<\/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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