{"id":6672,"date":"2021-07-30T16:59:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T00:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2021-07-30T16:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T00:59:13","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/07\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-311","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 311"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a> On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues (although I skipped last week because I was on vacation and it was glorious). Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the 311th<\/sup> installment. 311 is something called a permutable prime (aka absolute prime), which means that it is prime no matter how you reorder the digits. In other words because 311, 113, and 131 are all primes they are permutable primes. Nifty!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. The New Moral Code of America\u2019s Elite<\/a> (Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic): \u201c\u2026it\u2019s decent, if you have a problem with someone, to take it up with them before running it up the nearest flagpole. But this is something people with the right views and the best degrees, it seems, simply do not do; just as the distinction between tattling and whistleblowing\u2014resting, as it does, on a sober evaluation of one\u2019s own motives and the stakes at hand\u2014is one they often fail to make.\u201d THIS IS WILD and 100% worth using up a paywall view on.<\/li>
  2. The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles<\/a> (Rachel Aviv, New Yorker): \u201cPerhaps the politicians were receptive because the project seemed to be the opposite of the Nazis\u2019 reproductive experiments, with their rigid emphasis on propagating certain kinds of families, or perhaps they were unconcerned because, in their opinion, the boys were already lost.\u201d Actually insane. <\/li>
  3. \u201cThese Bastards Will Never See Our Tears\u201d: How Yulia Navalnaya Became Russia\u2019s Real First Lady<\/a> (Julia Ioffe, Vanity Fair): \u201cShe said, \u2018I think there is no chance that they will let him out. He will be in jail for a long time,\u2019\u2009\u201d Grozev recalls. \u201cYou must understand how shocking this conversation was. She\u2019s this wide-eyed, earnest, honest person. She says these things like they\u2019re the most obvious things on earth, but she\u2019s saying very nonobvious things. You have to process what she says before you realize that it\u2019s obvious only in a certain universe.\u201d That universe was the imagined future in which Russia is free and happy.