{"id":6483,"date":"2021-01-29T17:24:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T01:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6483"},"modified":"2021-01-29T17:24:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T01:24:36","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-286","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/01\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-286","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 286"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/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.

This is the 286th<\/sup> of these roundups. 286 is a tetra\u00adhe\u00addral num\u00adber<\/a>, which basi\u00adcal\u00adly means you could stack 286 mar\u00adbles into a three-sided pyra\u00admid (four sides if you count the base).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia Is Cleans\u00ading Jews From His\u00adto\u00adry<\/a> (Emi\u00adly Benedek, Tablet Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cKaplan, 53, a Bay Area moth\u00ader of two grown chil\u00addren who describes her\u00adself as a life\u00adlong Demo\u00adc\u00adrat, was fur\u00adther sur\u00adprised to dis\u00adcov\u00ader that a list of 154 influ\u00aden\u00adtial peo\u00adple of col\u00ador did not include Dr. Mar\u00adtin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, or Supreme Court Jus\u00adtice Thur\u00adgood Mar\u00adshall, though it includ\u00aded many vio\u00adlent rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adar\u00adies. There was even a flat\u00adter\u00ading descrip\u00adtion of Pol Pot, the com\u00admu\u00adnist leader of Cambodia\u2019s Khmer Rouge, who was respon\u00adsi\u00adble for the mur\u00adder of a quar\u00adter of the Cam\u00adbo\u00addi\u00adan pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion dur\u00ading the 1970s.\u201d THIS IS WILD. <\/li>
  2. The New Nation\u00adal Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Elite<\/a> (Michael Lind, Tablet Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201c\u2026from the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion until the late 20th cen\u00adtu\u00adry, the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan elite was divid\u00aded among region\u00adal oli\u00adgarchies. It is only in the last gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion that these region\u00adal patri\u00adci\u00adates have been absorbed into a sin\u00adgle, increas\u00ading\u00adly homo\u00adge\u00adneous nation\u00adal oli\u00adgarchy, with the same accent, man\u00adners, val\u00adues, and edu\u00adca\u00adtion\u00adal back\u00adgrounds from Boston to Austin and San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco to New York and Atlanta. This is a tru\u00adly epochal devel\u00adop\u00adment.\u201d Lind is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at UT Austin in the school of pub\u00adlic affairs, and I fea\u00adtured anoth\u00ader arti\u00adcle<\/a> by him recent\u00adly<\/a>.<\/li>
  3. In Which I Final\u00adly Lose My Mind<\/a> (Poli\u00adMath, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cAfter a rea\u00adson\u00adable amount of time for the vac\u00adci\u00adna\u00adtion to pro\u00adduce an immune response (aim for 2 weeks), you are not in dan\u00adger and you are not a dan\u00adger to oth\u00aders. Yes, wear a mask for social cohe\u00adsion or to fol\u00adlow the rules or just gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly to be polite. Wash your hands, use your com\u00admon sense, and ignore the news writ\u00adten by peo\u00adple who seem to want this cri\u00adsis to last for\u00adev\u00ader. Make it a pri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adty to get your sec\u00adond dose on sched\u00adule. Once you are vac\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded with the sec\u00adond dose, this cri\u00adsis is over for you.\u201d The author is<\/li>
  4. The Reli\u00adgious Roots of Our Free Enter\u00adprise Sys\u00adtem<\/a> (Alan Wolfe, New York Times): \u201cWhat does an eso\u00adteric con\u00adcept like Calvin\u00adist sote\u00adri\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy have to do with the rise of mod\u00adern eco\u00adnom\u00adics? Does lais\u00adsez-faire have its roots in the arcane Quin\u00adquar\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar Con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsy? Can one find the ori\u00adgins of the wel\u00adfare state in post\u00admil\u00adlen\u00adni\u00adal\u00adist escha\u00adtol\u00adogy? Ques\u00adtions like these, accord\u00ading to the Har\u00advard econ\u00ado\u00admist Ben\u00adjamin M. Fried\u00adman, are essen\u00adtial to under\u00adstand\u00ading his dis\u00adci\u00adpline today.\u201d<\/li>
  5. How Red\u00addi\u00adtors Beat Hedge Funds at Their Own Game(Stop)<\/a> (Eric Levitz, New York Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cAnoth\u00ader less-than-pop\u00adulist aspect of this dra\u00adma is that the hedge fund that\u2019s been hard\u00adest hit \u2014 Melvin Cap\u00adi\u00adtal \u2014 did not become the favored tar\u00adget of Wall\u00adStreet\u00adBets on account of its unique avarice or unscrupu\u00adlous\u00adness, but rather, its excep\u00adtion\u00adal trans\u00adparen\u00adcy.\u2026 Thus, for Wall Street, the upshot of all this is going to be: Nev\u00ader let reg\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtors or the pub\u00adlic know what your short posi\u00adtions are. Which doesn\u2019t seem like a huge win for \u2018the 99 per\u00adcent.\u2019\u201d