{"id":6692,"date":"2021-08-20T17:34:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T01:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2021-08-20T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T01:34:21","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/08\/20\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-314","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 314"},"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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

314 is rough\u00adly \u00cf\u20ac times 100, and that makes me hap\u00adpy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afghanistan links are at the bot\u00adtom and are well worth read\u00ading, but oth\u00ader stuff is up top in case you\u2019re over\u00adwhelmed already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. A Guide to Find\u00ading Faith<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201c\u2026the world in 2021, no less than the world in 1521 or 321, presents con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable evi\u00addence of an orig\u00adi\u00adnat\u00ading intel\u00adli\u00adgence pre\u00adsid\u00ading over a law-bound world well made for our minds to under\u00adstand, and at the same time a panoply of spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal forces that seem to inter\u00advene unpre\u00addictably in our exis\u00adtence.\u201d This is a won\u00adder\u00adful thing to have print\u00aded in the New York Times.<\/li>
  2. The Real Col\u00adlege Scan\u00addal<\/a> (Agnes Callard, The Point Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cIf I had to mea\u00adsure the worth of my class\u00ades in my stu\u00addents\u2019 sub\u00adse\u00adquent civic virtue or life sat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adtion, I couldn\u2019t afford to lose touch with most of them after grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion. I am some\u00adtimes sad\u00addened when I lose touch with them, but it nev\u00ader caus\u00ades me to won\u00adder whether their edu\u00adca\u00adtion was worth\u00adwhile.\u201d Enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by an alum\u00adnus.<\/li>
  3. Ope\u00adnAI Codex Live Demo<\/a> (Ope\u00adnAI, YouTube): thir\u00adty astound\u00ading min\u00adutes. This tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy is going to change SO MUCH. I\u2019m hon\u00adest\u00adly blown away. Sign up for beta access at https:\/\/openai.com\/join<\/a><\/li>
  4. Unmar\u00adried Sex Is Worse Than You Think<\/a> (Sarah Eekhoff Zyl\u00adstra & Collin Hansen, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cAmer\u00adi\u00adcans talk a lot about sex. Any\u00adone would think they\u2019re hav\u00ading a lot of it.\u2026 Instead, the oppo\u00adsite has hap\u00adpened. Young peo\u00adple are hav\u00ading less sex\u2014and are less happy\u2014than the mar\u00adried, church\u00adgo\u00ading gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion before them.\u201d<\/li>
  5. Does Cana\u00adda have a reli\u00adgion prob\u00adlem<\/a>? (Ray Pen\u00adnings, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIn part\u00adner\u00adship with the Angus-Reid Insti\u00adtute, Car\u00addus has been mea\u00adsur\u00ading Cana\u00addi\u00adan spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty. We asked about sev\u00aden prac\u00adtices \u2014 belief in God\u2019s exis\u00adtence, prayer, read\u00ading a scrip\u00adture, par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpat\u00ading in wor\u00adship, believ\u00ading in an after\u00adlife, hav\u00ading reli\u00adgious expe\u00adri\u00adences, teach\u00ading your kids about faith. We termed the 16 per\u00adcent who do at least six of these \u2018reli\u00adgious\u00adly com\u00admit\u00adted\u2019 and the 19 per\u00adcent who do zero or one \u2018non-believ\u00aders.\u2019 That leaves the 64 per cent of Cana\u00addi\u00adans in the mid\u00addle \u2014 nei\u00adther devout\u00adly reli\u00adgious, nor reli\u00adgious\u00adly indif\u00adfer\u00adent. They\u2019re a big chunk of the 86 per cent of Cana\u00addi\u00adans who pray at least month\u00adly.  But many reli\u00adgious Cana\u00addi\u00adans, of var\u00adi\u00adous faiths, don\u2019t nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly feel it\u2019s safe to be pub\u00adlic about their beliefs.\u201d The author is the co-founder of Car\u00addus, a Cana\u00addi\u00adan think tank. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a friend of the min\u00adistry.<\/li>
  6. Who Tells Them Things They Don\u2019t Want to Hear<\/a>? (Fred\u00addie deBoer, Sub\u00adstack): \u201c\u2026I don\u2019t think and have nev\u00ader sug\u00adgest\u00aded that crowd\u00adfund\u00aded media can replace the basic news\u00adgath\u00ader\u00ading func\u00adtion of news\u00adpa\u00adpers and that the NYT in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar still serves a vital func\u00adtion in its fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal repor\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal duties. This is, in fact, pre\u00adcise\u00adly why I am so dis\u00adturbed by the paper\u2019s takeover by a fringe ide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy embraced by a tiny sliv\u00ader of the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan pub\u00adlic and by behind-the-scenes high school bull\u00adshit.\u201d