{"id":6738,"date":"2021-10-22T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T20:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6738"},"modified":"2021-10-22T12:53:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T20:53:04","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/10\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-323","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 323"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/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 way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

323 is 17 \u00b7 19, which are two of my favorite numbers. I particularly delight in using them on the microwave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. Evangelical Elites, Fighting Each Other<\/a> (David French, The Dispatch): \u201c\u2026the older culture war categories are being supplemented and sometimes supplanted by a new confrontation between liberalism and illiberalism. While illiberal right and illiberal left snarl at anyone not in their tribes, the liberal right and the liberal left are forming new relationships and new alliances.\u201d An excellent piece, and the first comment is also worth reading (it\u2019s by French himself about something he  meant to include in the article).<\/li>
  2. Jill Biden paid a surprise visit to the woman who helped her regain faith in God<\/a> (Jada Yuan, Washington Post): \u201cFor five years after the death of her son, Jill Biden says, she lost her faith in God. She \u2018felt betrayed, broken\u2019 when Beau died of brain cancer at 46, and she had stopped going to church or even praying, she told the congregants of Brookland Baptist Church late Sunday afternoon. But she found her way back, and over the weekend traveled nearly 500 miles to surprise the woman who\u2019d helped her get there.\u201d I was deeply moved by this story.<\/li>
  3. A Worrisome Peek Inside Yale Law\u2019s Diversity Bureaucracy<\/a> (Conor Friedersforf, The Atlantic): \u201c[Oddly,] the diversity administrators spent many hours on this low-stakes drama among high-IQ adults, affording outsiders an unusual peek at their methods and a related series of crucial mistakes, most stemming from an inability or unwillingness to see how the interests of students diverge from the interests and incentives of their office.\u201d<\/li>
  4. Two articles discussing the research suggesting conservatives are happier than liberals: