{"id":6727,"date":"2021-10-08T06:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T14:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2021-10-08T06:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T14:28:41","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/10\/08\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-321","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 321"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><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 Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is volume 321, which is not only a number but also a countdown.<\/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:\/\/bariweiss.substack.com\/p\/top-trans-doctors-blow-the-whistle?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0MjE2MTM1MSwiXyI6IjBSckQ3IiwiaWF0IjoxNjMzMzg0ODUwLCJleHAiOjE2MzMzODg0NTAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yNjAzNDciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.8b-rUk-rmImgHjzrwz-1Q8bjK8AsGddMgvowxkWG_YM\">Top Trans Doctors Blow the Whistle on \u2018Sloppy\u2019 Care<\/a> (Abigail Shrier, Bari Weiss\u2019s Substack): \u201c[The] new orthodoxy has gone too far, according to two of the most prominent providers in the field of transgender medicine: Dr. Marci Bowers, a world-renowned vaginoplasty specialist who operated on reality-television star Jazz Jennings; and Erica Anderson, a clinical psychologist at the University of California San Francisco\u2019s Child and Adolescent Gender Clinic. In the course of their careers, both have seen thousands of patients. Both are board members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the organization that sets the standards worldwide for transgender medical care. And both are transgender women. Earlier this month, Anderson told me she submitted a co-authored op-ed to The New York Times warning that many transgender healthcare providers were treating kids recklessly. The Times passed, explaining it was \u2018outside our coverage priorities right&nbsp;now.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d&nbsp;<ul><li>A sobering article, and also a tragic but unsurprising revelation about the New York Times editorial team.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/astralcodexten.substack.com\/p\/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0MjAzMDM2OCwiXyI6Imo5aDFxIiwiaWF0IjoxNjMzNDM1Njk5LCJleHAiOjE2MzM0MzkyOTksImlzcyI6InB1Yi04OTEyMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.htXlA8GItkf2NFGHWkAp-ZRpgLOCRdYOIuuljaYXooU\">Highlights From The Comments On Modern Architecture<\/a> (Scott Alexander, Astral Codex Ten): \u201cI might be the only person in the world who likes McMansions. They just look like nice, pleasant buildings made by people who want to vaguely enjoy the place where they live. Probably the least offensive thing people are making these&nbsp;days.\u201d<ul><li>Judging from the comments he really struck a chord with the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/astralcodexten.substack.com\/p\/whither-tartaria?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0MTU4NjY5MywiXyI6InZ4MzlCIiwiaWF0IjoxNjMyNDQxMjU5LCJleHAiOjE2MzI0NDQ4NTksImlzcyI6InB1Yi04OTEyMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.pjpFO9KN-NqAlkhDcTYy_G9MmpLBL69qEIze7RzXJuI\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/astralcodexten.substack.com\/p\/whither-tartaria?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0MTU4NjY5MywiXyI6InZ4MzlCIiwiaWF0IjoxNjMyNDQxMjU5LCJleHAiOjE2MzI0NDQ4NTksImlzcyI6InB1Yi04OTEyMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.pjpFO9KN-NqAlkhDcTYy_G9MmpLBL69qEIze7RzXJuI\">Whither Tartaria?<\/a>\u201d piece I linked <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/09\/24\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-319\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/09\/24\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-319\">two weeks ago<\/a>. Fascinating stuff, highly recommended.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/on-religion\/what-american-christians-hear-at-church\">What American Christians Hear at Church<\/a> (Casey Cep, New Yorker): \u201cHomiletics\u2014the proper name for the art of preaching\u2014is still taught in seminaries and divinity schools, but it is not often studied outside of those institutions. This is regrettable, since many more Americans attend church than subscribe to a newspaper.\u2026 Taking advantage of the technologies that have allowed churches to stream services and post them online, Pew has studied the length, language, and content of tens of thousands of sermons, by denomination and tradition, most recently for the nine Sundays before and the Sunday after last fall\u2019s Presidential election.\u201d Quite interesting.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2021\/08\/19\/slavery-vs-white-supremacy\/\">Slavery vs. White Supremacy<\/a> (Van Gosse &amp; Sean Wilentz, New York Review of Books): \u201cAntislavery and anti-racist politics appeared only in the 1760s\u2014and only in the American colonies. Those politics, hailed by later abolitionists as of world-historical importance, engaged blacks and whites, enslaved and free. Inspired by the Revolution\u2019s egalitarianism, antislavery advocates overcame powerful opposition and enacted the first emancipations of their kind in history, in seven of the thirteen original states.\u2026 The United States, in short, was founded not on slavery and white supremacy but amid an unprecedented struggle over slavery and white supremacy, which the Constitution left open.\u201d Illuminating letters between two history professors.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/04\/china\/xinjiang-detective-torture-intl-hnk-dst\/index.html\">\u2018Some are just psychopaths\u2019: Chinese detective in exile reveals extent of torture against Uyghurs<\/a> (Rebecca Wright, Ivan Watson, Zahid Mahmood and Tom Booth, CNN): \u201c&nbsp;\u2018Kick them, beat them (until they\u2019re) bruised and swollen,\u2019 Jiang said, recalling how he and his colleagues used to interrogate detainees in police detention centers. \u2018Until they kneel on the floor crying.\u2019 During his time in Xinjiang, Jiang said every new detainee was beaten during the interrogation process \u2014 including men, women and children as young as 14.\u201d The details in this story are dark. I\u2019ve seen other stories with testimonies from former prisoners, this one features one of the guards speaking up in addition to stories from prisoners.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ayjay.org\/trainings\/\">Trainings<\/a> (Alan Jacobs, personal blog): \u201cUniversities don\u2019t usually create their own training modules \u2014 they buy products from companies that specialize in that kind of thing. And those companies want to save money by&nbsp;<em>reusing their old code<\/em>. So they extract the content of their Title IX courses and simply stuff new content into the existing frameworks. Easy-peasy. And the upper-level administrators of the university, who don\u2019t want to spend any more money on such projects than they have to, accept the Frankenstein\u2019s jury-rigged monster they\u2019ve been handed.&nbsp;But that creates a big problem: the kind of structure needed to communicate to people the contours of a law and the expectations generated by that law is <em>not<\/em> the kind of structure needed to explore the moral development of a community.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/scholars-stage.org\/yale-and-the-education-of-governing-elites\/\">Yale and the Education of Governing Elites<\/a> (Tanner Greer, personal blog): \u201cA program conceived to teach future elites how to wisely use state power has morphed into a program teaching them how to wisely oppose it. This transformation is one more illustration of Dashan\u2019s thesis. At Yale we see the American predicament made concrete: an entrenched governing class that enjoys the privileges of elite status but refuses to prepare for the responsibilities of elite station.\u201d<\/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:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2021\/10\/05\">Bad Options<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iXkdy4Mh3Jk\">Alligator rushes out of water, steals Florida boy\u2019s fish in viral video<\/a> (YouTube): fifty seconds, pretty wild even though you know what\u2019s going to happen&nbsp;<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I6ZzuAQtXRs\">Guy who prefers Pepsi over Coke<\/a> (John Crist, YouTube): three minutes. Not consistently fair (you will disagree with some of his rankings), but a funny premise.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2021\/10\/the-new-top-chef.html?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-new-top-chef\">The New Top Chef<\/a> (Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution): \u201cDuring the pandemic a pasta restaurant launched on UberEats in Paris. Cala quickly attracted a top 1% rating for it\u2019s high quality to price ratio. Only now has it been revealed that the chef is a&nbsp;robot.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While&nbsp;Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2018\/6\/29\/are-the-satanists-of-the-ms-13-gang-an-under-covered-religion-beat-story\">Are Satanists of the MS\u201013 gang an under\u2010covered story on the religion beat?<\/a> (Julia Duin, GetReligion): this is a fascinating bit of news commentary. My favorite bit: \u201cHow does one get out of MS\u201013? An opinion piece in the New York Times this past April gives a surprising response: Go to a Pentecostal church.\u201d Highly recommended. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/06\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-158\">volume 158<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it). And to the extent you can discern my opinions, please understand that they are my own and not necessarily those of Chi Alpha or any other organization I may be perceived to represent.\n\nAlso, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about it.\n\nIf this was forwarded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/\">here<\/a>. 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