{"id":6488,"date":"2021-02-05T17:32:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T01:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2021-02-05T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T01:32:12","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-287","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/02\/05\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-287","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 287"},"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\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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 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>     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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is vol\u00adume 287, a num\u00adber which is the sum of con\u00adsec\u00adu\u00adtive primes thrice over (287 = 89 + 97 + 101 = 47 + 53 + 59 + 61 + 67 = 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47).<\/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 rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/31\/opinion\/change-someones-mind.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">The Sci\u00adence of Rea\u00adson\u00ading With Unrea\u00adson\u00adable Peo\u00adple<\/a> (Adam Grant, New York Times): \u201cSocial sci\u00aden\u00adtists have found that ask\u00ading peo\u00adple <em>how<\/em> their pre\u00adferred polit\u00adi\u00adcal poli\u00adcies might work in prac\u00adtice, rather than ask\u00ading <em>why<\/em> they favor those approach\u00ades, was more effec\u00adtive in open\u00ading their minds. As peo\u00adple strug\u00adgled to explain their ide\u00adal tax leg\u00adis\u00adla\u00adtion or health care plan, they grasped the com\u00adplex\u00adi\u00adty of the prob\u00adlem and rec\u00adog\u00adnized gaps in their knowl\u00adedge.\u201d The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Pen\u00adn\u2019s Whar\u00adton School.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/road-to-recovery\/2021\/02\/05\/peloton-ally-love-robin-christianity-covid\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F2f39f00%2F601d764d9d2fda4c88d4ce1b%2F5e606fc3ade4e2409c9a9cba%2F27%2F70%2F601d764d9d2fda4c88d4ce1b\">Pelo\u00adton makes ton\u00ading your glutes feel spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal. But should Jesus be part of the expe\u00adri\u00adence?<\/a> (Michelle Boorstein, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u2018Nick Stok\u00ader, 41, a Lon\u00addon busi\u00adness\u00adman, trig\u00adgered hun\u00addreds of com\u00adments on the Pelo\u00adton Red\u00addit page in April when he post\u00aded that he took a \u201cSun\u00addays with Love\u201d ride and thought he was get\u00adting pan\u00addem\u00adic-era \u201cspir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal inspi\u00adra\u00adtion and uplift\u00ading music,\u201d but actu\u00adal\u00adly got some\u00adthing more about God and Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty. The ride should have been labeled as Chris\u00adt\u00adian, he argued. \u201cI don\u2019t want my chil\u00addren lis\u00adten\u00ading to these sort of mes\u00adsages.\u201d\u2019<\/li><li>Thoughts about Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty and Amer\u00adi\u00adca<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/frenchpress.thedispatch.com\/p\/discerning-the-difference-between?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozMjA0NDkxNiwiXyI6IlY4Tk1UIiwiaWF0IjoxNjEyMTAzNTk1LCJleHAiOjE2MTIxMDcxOTUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yMTc2NSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.bNUOEyDLPwiucyiJBGZ4EUZS_I9UY1rDeHyI1y_Y6QU\">Dis\u00adcern\u00ading the Dif\u00adfer\u00adence Between Chris\u00adt\u00adian Nation\u00adal\u00adism and Chris\u00adt\u00adian Patri\u00ado\u00adtism<\/a> (David French, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cI love this coun\u00adtry, but I love it with eyes wide open. The aspi\u00adra\u00adtions of our found\u00ading have long been tem\u00adpered by the bru\u00adtal real\u00adi\u00adties of our fall\u00aden nature. The same nation that stormed Normandy\u2019s beach\u00ades to destroy a fas\u00adcist empire simul\u00adta\u00adne\u00adous\u00adly sus\u00adtained a seg\u00adre\u00adga\u00adtion\u00adist regime with\u00adin its own bor\u00adders. Our virtues do not negate our vices, and our vices do not negate our virtues. Amer\u00adi\u00adca isn\u2019t 1619 or 1776. It\u2019s 1619&nbsp;<em>and&nbsp;<\/em>1776.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2021\/01\/adam-kinzinger-voting-impeachment-christian\/617848\/?utm_content=edit-promo&amp;utm_campaign=the-atlantic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_term=2021-01-28T14%3A45%3A25&amp;utm_medium=social\">Betray\u00ading Your Church\u2014And Your Par\u00adty <\/a>(Emma Green, The Atlantic): \u201cOn Jan\u00adu\u00adary 6, as an armed mob invad\u00aded the House of Rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtives, Kinzinger said he could feel a dark\u00adness descend over the Capi\u00adtol. One of his friends in Con\u00adgress, the Okla\u00adhoma Repub\u00adli\u00adcan Mark\u00adwayne Mullin, heard the same thing from mem\u00adbers of the Capi\u00adtol Police. Kinzinger doesn\u2019t doubt that the dev\u00adil is at work in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan pol\u00adi\u00adtics. He just sus\u00adpects that the ene\u00admy might be lurk\u00ading in his own house.\u201d <\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/02\/04\/qanon-christian-extremism-nationalism-violence-466034\">It\u2019s Time to Talk About Vio\u00adlent Chris\u00adt\u00adian Extrem\u00adism<\/a> (Zack Stan\u00adton inter\u00adview\u00ading Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth Neu\u00admann, Politi\u00adco): \u201cHere\u2019s the thing, and I will do my best to explain it from a sec\u00adu\u00adlar per\u00adspec\u00adtive: There\u2019s text in the New Tes\u00adta\u00adment where the Apos\u00adtle Paul is admon\u00adish\u00ading a church he helped estab\u00adlish: \u2018You should be mature adults now in your faith, but I\u2019m still hav\u00ading to feed you with milk.\u2019 He\u2019s basi\u00adcal\u00adly say\u00ading, you should be 18, but you\u2019re still nurs\u00ading, and we need you to get it togeth\u00ader.\u2026 One of my ques\u00adtions is: Are we see\u00ading in the last four years one of the con\u00adse\u00adquences of that fail\u00adure? They didn\u2019t mature [in their faith], and they\u2019re very eas\u00adi\u00adly led astray by what scrip\u00adture calls \u2018false teach\u00aders.\u2019 My the\u00adsis here is that if we had a more scrip\u00adtural\u00adly based set of believ\u00aders in this coun\u00adtry \u2014 if every\u00adbody who calls them\u00adselves a \u2018Chris\u00adt\u00adian\u2019 had actu\u00adal\u00adly read through, I don\u2019t know, 80 per\u00adcent of the Bible \u2014 they would not have been so eas\u00adi\u00adly deceived.\u201d The inter\u00advie\u00adwee is an evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Chris\u00adt\u00adian who has served as a Deputy Chief of Staff in the Depart\u00adment of Home\u00adland Secu\u00adri\u00adty. Extreme\u00adly inter\u00adest\u00ading.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>The chal\u00adlenge of Chi\u00adna:<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/30\/opinion\/sunday\/foreign-policy-china.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">Biden\u2019s Night\u00admare May Be Chi\u00adna<\/a> (Nicholas Kristof, New York Times): \u201cDeal\u00ading with Mitch McConnell will be a piece of cake for Pres\u00adi\u00addent Biden com\u00adpared with deal\u00ading with Xi. Biden\u2019s chal\u00adlenge will be to con\u00adstrain a Chi\u00adnese leader who has been oppres\u00adsive in Hong Kong, geno\u00adci\u00addal in the Xin\u00adjiang region, obdu\u00adrate on trade, ruth\u00adless on human rights and insin\u00adcere on every\u00adthing, while still coop\u00ader\u00adat\u00ading with Chi\u00adna on issues like cli\u00admate change, fen\u00adtanyl and North Korea (which many experts expect to resume mis\u00adsile launch\u00ades this year).\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-55794071\">\u2018Their goal is to destroy every\u00adone\u2019: Uighur camp detainees allege sys\u00adtem\u00adat\u00adic rape<\/a> (Matthew Hill, David Cam\u00adpanale and Joel Gunter, BBC): \u201cIt was unlike\u00adly that Xi or oth\u00ader top par\u00adty offi\u00adcials would have direct\u00aded or autho\u00adrised rape or tor\u00adture,\u201d Par\u00adton said, but they would \u201ccer\u00adtain\u00adly be aware of it. I think they pre\u00adfer at the top just to turn a blind eye. The line has gone out to imple\u00adment this pol\u00adi\u00adcy with great stern\u00adness, and that is what is hap\u00adpen\u00ading.\u201d That left \u201cno real con\u00adstraints\u201d, he said. \u201cI just don\u2019t see what the per\u00adpe\u00adtra\u00adtors of these acts would have to hold them back.\u201d I don\u2019t know how this isn\u2019t front page news almost every day. We want to say every\u00adone is as evil as Hitler EXCEPT THE PEOPLE RUNNING ACTUAL CONCENTRATION CAMPS.<\/li><li>And thoughts on Tai\u00adwan, which is not Chi\u00adna<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/scholars-stage.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/understanding-taiwanese-nationalism.html\">Under\u00adstand\u00ading Tai\u00adwanese Nation\u00adal\u00adism: A His\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal Primer in Bul\u00adlet Points<\/a> (Tan\u00adner Greer, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cAs some\u00adone who has lived years in both Tai\u00adwan and in Chi\u00adna I can also give a more anec\u00addo\u00adtal assess\u00adment: the dif\u00adfer\u00adences between the two coun\u00adtries and their respec\u00adtive cul\u00adtures (to say noth\u00ading of their polit\u00adi\u00adcal sys\u00adtems) is clear. They are sim\u00adply not the same peo\u00adple.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2021\/02\/02\/china-and-the-question-of-taiwan\/\">Chi\u00adna and the Ques\u00adtion of Tai\u00adwan<\/a> (Aaron Sarin, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cHis\u00adto\u00adri\u00adan James A. Mill\u00adward points out that many in his dis\u00adci\u00adpline have implic\u00adit\u00adly accept\u00aded the Par\u00adty line on Tai\u00adwanese his\u00adto\u00adry. They will refer, for exam\u00adple, to the Qing dynasty\u2019s \u2018recap\u00adture of Tai\u00adwan in 1683,\u2019 even though, as Mill\u00adward explains, \u2018no Chi\u00adna-based state\u2014not even an impe\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal dynasty\u2014ha[d] ever ruled the island before.\u2019 Here we see the suc\u00adcess of the CCP\u2019s pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda, even out\u00adside Chi\u00adna. The truth is that Tai\u00adwan was a Qing acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion, and that is the sole basis for Beijing\u2019s claims today.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/12\/23\/949764249\/fork-the-government\">Fork The Gov\u00adern\u00adment<\/a> (Plan\u00adet Mon\u00adey, NPR): \u201cAs coun\u00adtries around the world strug\u00adgle to han\u00addle the coro\u00adn\u00adavirus pan\u00addem\u00adic, Tai\u00adwan stands out as a rel\u00ada\u00adtive suc\u00adcess sto\u00adry\u2026 so far. Since April, only one local\u00adly trans\u00admit\u00adted case has been report\u00aded. There have been only sev\u00aden deaths \u2014 in the entire coun\u00adtry. There are a lot of rea\u00adsons why Tai\u00adwan has been able to keep its infec\u00adtion and death rates so low. For one, it\u2019s an island. Also, it\u2019s dealt with a res\u00adpi\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry virus epi\u00addem\u00adic before. But Tai\u00adwan has also been tak\u00ading a rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal approach to the pan\u00addem\u00adic with tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy. Like work\u00ading with civic hack\u00aders to code its way out of the pan\u00addem\u00adic.\u201d This is a pod\u00adcast episode.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Things relat\u00aded to the cred\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty cri\u00adsis in our cul\u00adture:<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.econlib.org\/nationalism-prejudice-and-fda-regulation\/\">Nation\u00adal\u00adism, prej\u00adu\u00addice, and FDA reg\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion<\/a> (Scott Sum\u00adn\u00ader, Econ\u00adLib): \u201cYou say peo\u00adple shouldn\u2019t be allowed to take a vac\u00adcine unless experts find it to be safe and effec\u00adtive? OK, the UK experts did just that. You say that only the opin\u00adion of US experts counts because our experts are clear\u00adly the best? Real\u00adly, where is the <em>sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic study<\/em> that shows that our experts are the best? I thought you said we need\u00aded to \u2018trust the sci\u00aden\u00adtists\u2019?&nbsp;Now you are say\u00ading we must trust the nation\u00adal\u00adists?\u201d The author is an econ\u00ado\u00admist at George Mason Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/astralcodexten.substack.com\/p\/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozMjI0MjMxNiwiXyI6IkVGc1NKIiwiaWF0IjoxNjEyNTY3OTgxLCJleHAiOjE2MTI1NzE1ODEsImlzcyI6InB1Yi04OTEyMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.e64vd33UodmgNotXmQUh42MIb6jHUVSM4mCsGmf5J04\">Web\u00adMD, And The Tragedy Of Leg\u00adi\u00adble Exper\u00adtise<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Astral Codex Ten): \u201cI can\u2019t tell you how many times over the past year all the experts, the CDC, the WHO, the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>, et cetera, have said some\u00adthing (or been silent about some\u00adthing in a sug\u00adges\u00adtive way), and then some blog\u00adger I trust\u00aded&nbsp;said the oppo\u00adsite, and the blog\u00adger turned out to be right. I real\u00adize this kind of thing is vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble to selec\u00adtion bias, but it\u2019s been the same cou\u00adple of blog\u00adgers through\u00adout, peo\u00adple who I already trust\u00aded and already sus\u00adpect\u00aded might be bet\u00adter than the experts in a lot of ways.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/scholars-stage.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/where-have-all-great-works-gone.html\">Where Have All the Great Works Gone?<\/a> (Tan\u00adner Greer, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cIt was obvi\u00adous to even those who dis\u00adliked Niet\u00adzche that he was a sem\u00adi\u00adnal fig\u00adure in West\u00adern thought; it was obvi\u00adous even to those who dis\u00adagreed with Ibsen that he claimed a sim\u00adi\u00adlar place in West\u00adern lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture, and so forth. Their ideas might be argued against, but their genius and their influ\u00adence was unde\u00adni\u00adable.&nbsp; Is there any\u00adone who died in the last decade you could make that sort of claim for?&nbsp; How about for the last two decades?&nbsp; The last three?&nbsp; Or is there any\u00adone at all who is still liv\u00ading today that might be described this way? In the realm of sci\u00adence, per\u00adhaps. But in the world of social, his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal, eth\u00adi\u00adcal, and polit\u00adi\u00adcal thought, no one comes to mind.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/social-justice-austerity-and-the-humanities-death-spiral?cid2=gen_login_refresh&amp;cid=gen_sign_in\">Social Jus\u00adtice, Aus\u00adter\u00adi\u00adty, and the Human\u00adi\u00adties Death Spi\u00adral<\/a> (Geoff Shul\u00adlen\u00adberg\u00ader, Chron\u00adi\u00adcle of High\u00ader Edu\u00adca\u00adtion): \u201cHow are human\u00adi\u00adties dis\u00adci\u00adplines push\u00ading back against the exis\u00adten\u00adtial threats they face? Obvi\u00adous\u00adly, one can find a vari\u00adety of argu\u00adments against cut\u00adbacks and the deval\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion of human\u00adis\u00adtic study. On the oth\u00ader hand, fac\u00adul\u00adty mem\u00adbers with\u00adin these fields some\u00adtimes make what looks like a case against their own val\u00adue. For exam\u00adple, the Chica\u00adgo announce\u00adment states that \u2018Eng\u00adlish as a dis\u00adci\u00adpline has a long his\u00adto\u00adry of pro\u00advid\u00ading aes\u00adthet\u00adic ratio\u00adnal\u00adiza\u00adtions for col\u00ado\u00adniza\u00adtion, exploita\u00adtion, extrac\u00adtion, and anti-Black\u00adness.\u2019 Those who make fund\u00ading deci\u00adsions might well ask why such a dis\u00adci\u00adpline deserves to con\u00adtin\u00adue exist\u00ading.\u201d The author teach\u00ades Eng\u00adlish at NYU. It was dif\u00adfi\u00adcult choos\u00ading which bit to excerpt \u2014 def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly worth read\u00ading if you aspire to acad\u00ade\u00admia.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/psyarxiv.com\/jqw35\">The Gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adiz\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty Cri\u00adsis<\/a> (Tal Yarkoni, PsyArx\u00adiv): \u201cMost the\u00ado\u00adries and hypothe\u00adses in psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy are ver\u00adbal in nature, yet their eval\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion over\u00adwhelm\u00ading\u00adly relies on infer\u00aden\u00adtial sta\u00adtis\u00adti\u00adcal pro\u00adce\u00addures. The valid\u00adi\u00adty of the move from qual\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtive to quan\u00adti\u00adta\u00adtive analy\u00adsis depends on the ver\u00adbal and sta\u00adtis\u00adti\u00adcal expres\u00adsions of a hypoth\u00ade\u00adsis being close\u00adly aligned\u2014that is, that the two must refer to rough\u00adly the same set of hypo\u00adthet\u00adi\u00adcal obser\u00adva\u00adtions. Here I argue that many appli\u00adca\u00adtions of sta\u00adtis\u00adti\u00adcal infer\u00adence in psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy fail to meet this basic con\u00addi\u00adtion.\u201d The author is a psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy prof at UT Austin. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent. I lack the exper\u00adtise to eval\u00adu\u00adate it but find it intu\u00adtive\u00adly plau\u00adsi\u00adble.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/964006\/rise-barstool-conservatives\">Rise of the Barstool con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives<\/a> (Matthew Walther, The Week): \u201cWhat Trump rec\u00adog\u00adnized was that there are mil\u00adlions of Amer\u00adi\u00adcans who do not oppose or even care about abor\u00adtion or same-sex mar\u00adriage, much less stem-cell research or any of the oth\u00ader caus\u00ades that had ani\u00admat\u00aded tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal social con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives. Instead he cor\u00adrect\u00adly intu\u00adit\u00aded that the new cul\u00adture war would be fought over very dif\u00adfer\u00adent (and more neb\u00adu\u00adlous) issues: vague con\u00adcerns about polit\u00adi\u00adcal cor\u00adrect\u00adness and \u2018SJWs,\u2019 oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion to the pop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adiza\u00adtion of so-called crit\u00adi\u00adcal race the\u00ado\u00adry, sen\u00adti\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty about the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan flag and the mil\u00adi\u00adtary, the rights of male under\u00adgrad\u00adu\u00adates to engage in for\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion while intox\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded with\u00adout fear of the Title IX mafia.\u201d I think there\u2019s some truth here, but I think he under\u00adplays the impor\u00adtance of abor\u00adtion in Trump\u2019s appeal. He nonethe\u00adless puts his fin\u00adger on an impor\u00adtant part of the way Trump\u2019s coali\u00adtion was forged and the shape of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan pol\u00adi\u00adtics mov\u00ading for\u00adward.<\/li><li>On GameStop:<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2021\/january-web-only\/wall-street-gamestop-parable-what-if-we-are-all-1-percent.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+christianitytoday%2Fctmag+%28CT+Magazine%29\">In the GameStop Fren\u00adzy, What If We\u2019re All the 1 Per\u00adcent?<\/a> (Michael J. Rhodes, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201c\u2026we shouldn\u2019t con\u00adfuse fight\u00ading for a bet\u00adter seat at the black\u00adjack table with con\u00adfronting an econ\u00ado\u00admy addict\u00aded to gam\u00adbling.\u2026 Jesus doesn\u2019t tell his flock to beat the rich fool at his own game. He invites them to live an eco\u00adnom\u00adic life free from greed or fear, stor\u00ading up trea\u00adsure in heav\u00aden by giv\u00ading gen\u00ader\u00adous\u00adly to the poor (Luke 12:33).\u201d The author is an Old Tes\u00adta\u00adment pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Carey Bap\u00adtist Col\u00adlege. Worth\u00adwhile arti\u00adcle.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.persuasion.community\/p\/the-insiders-game-799?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozMjA5NDA1NSwiXyI6IlY4Tk1UIiwiaWF0IjoxNjEyMjA4MzEwLCJleHAiOjE2MTIyMTE5MTAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi02MTU3OSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.mqTl2ydJ4-H4sa7PsIcFNsQ8zK3edRwJ9tl1CKgtLu0\">The Insid\u00aders\u2019 Game<\/a> (David Sacks, Per\u00adsua\u00adsion): \u201cIf there is a Big Lie in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan pol\u00adi\u00adtics right now, it is the idea that cen\u00adsor\u00adship of social media is nec\u00ades\u00adsary to save democ\u00adra\u00adcy.\u2026 What the insid\u00aders fear is not the end of democ\u00adra\u00adcy, but the end of their con\u00adtrol over it, and the loss of the ben\u00ade\u00adfits they extract from it. Ulti\u00admate\u00adly, the bat\u00adtle over speech is just one aspect of a broad\u00ader war for pow\u00ader amid a grow\u00ading polit\u00adi\u00adcal realign\u00adment that is not Left ver\u00adsus Right, but rather insid\u00ader ver\u00adsus out\u00adsider.\u201d The author was on the found\u00ading team at Pay\u00adPal.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2021\/02\/calling-wall-streets-bluff\">Call\u00ading Wall Street\u2019s Bluff<\/a> (Josh Haw\u00adley, First Things): \u201cNow the experts tell us that the true price on the mar\u00adket changes every day, because the fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtals are always chang\u00ading, even though they\u2019re fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal.\u2026 Nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adly, peo\u00adple are some\u00adwhat sus\u00adpi\u00adcious of this whole sys\u00adtem. Every so often it seems to crash the entire econ\u00ado\u00admy. But even when it\u2019s sup\u00adpos\u00aded\u00adly work\u00ading, some\u00adthing seems off.\u201d Stan\u00adford alum\u00adnus Josh Haw\u00adley is, of course, the con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsial Sen\u00ada\u00adtor from Mis\u00adsouri.<\/li><\/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 rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2421\/\">The Tow\u00ader of Babel<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/army-nukes-the-sun-after-pentagon-declares-climate-change-a-national-security-threat\/\">After Pen\u00adta\u00adgon Declares Cli\u00admate Change A Nation\u00adal Secu\u00adri\u00adty Threat, Space Force Announces Pre\u00ademp\u00adtive Attack On The Sun<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/infinitely-precious-image-bearer-of-almighty-god-disappointed-her-post-didnt-get-more-likes\/\">Infi\u00adnite\u00adly Pre\u00adcious Child Of Almighty God Obses\u00adsive\u00adly Checks Social Media For More Likes<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/annals-of-gastronomy\/pellet-ice-is-the-good-ice\">Pel\u00adlet Ice Is the Good Ice<\/a> (Helen Ros\u00adner, New York\u00ader): \u201cThe good ice makes aver\u00adage drinks great, and great drinks god\u00adly. The good ice is pel\u00adlet ice, and to know it is to need it.\u201d<\/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\/09\/18\/too-much-dark-money-in-almonds\/\">Too Much Dark Mon\u00adey in Almonds<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Slate Star Codex): \u201cEvery\u00adone always talks about how much mon\u00adey there is in pol\u00adi\u00adtics. This is the wrong fram\u00ading. The right fram\u00ading is Ansolabehere et al\u2019s: why is there so <em>lit\u00adtle<\/em> mon\u00adey in pol\u00adi\u00adtics? But Ansolabehere focus\u00ades on elec\u00adtions, and the mys\u00adtery is wider than that. Sure, dur\u00ading the 2018 elec\u00adtion, can\u00addi\u00addates, par\u00adties, PACs, and out\u00adsiders com\u00adbined spent about $5 bil\u00adlion \u2013 $2.5 bil\u00adlion on Democ\u00adrats, $2 bil\u00adlion on Repub\u00adli\u00adcans, and $0.5 bil\u00adlion on third par\u00adties. And although that sounds like a lot of mon\u00adey to you or me, on the nation\u00adal scale, it\u2019s puny. The US almond indus\u00adtry earns $12 bil\u00adlion per year. Amer\u00adi\u00adcans spent about 2.5x as much on almonds as on can\u00addi\u00addates last year.\u201d It builds to a sur\u00adpris\u00ading twist. High\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/09\/20\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-219\">vol\u00adume 219<\/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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