{"id":6769,"date":"2021-11-26T23:02:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T07:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6769"},"modified":"2021-11-26T23:25:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T07:25:18","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-327","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/11\/26\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-327","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 327"},"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 327, and 327 is the largest number such that it together with its double and triple contain every digit 1\u20139 once: 327 doubled is 654 and tripled it is 981. Odd but&nbsp;cool.<\/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.plough.com\/en\/topics\/life\/parenting\/special-needs-children\/the-teacher-who-never-spoke\">The Teacher Who Never Spoke<\/a> (Maureeen Swinger, Plough): \u201cThe summer my brother Duane turned twenty, a formidable young man stayed with us on a break from the Ivy League. He had never, to anyone\u2019s knowledge, lost an argument. Several weeks into his visit, my mother walked into the dining room where my brother and his friend were, in theory, eating lunch. In reality, both men were sitting at the table with locked jaws. One didn\u2019t have to say, \u2018I need you to eat.\u2019 The other didn\u2019t need to say, \u2018Hell, no.\u2019 They both knew exactly what was going on: the Ivy Leaguer was losing an argument to my brother, who had never learned to&nbsp;speak.\u201d&nbsp;<ul><li>This is from a while ago (2017), but I must have missed it. Simply astounding. I wept while reading it. Anyone taking a class where Peter Singer\u2019s philosophy is highly regarded should read this&nbsp;ASAP.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/when-all-the-media-narratives-collapse-650\">She was sold to a stranger so her family could eat as Afghanistan crumbles<\/a> (Anna Coren, Jessie Yeung and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN): \u201cMagul, a 10-year-old girl in neighboring Ghor province, cries every day as she prepares to be sold to a 70-year-old man to settle her family\u2019s debts. Her parents had borrowed 200,000 Afghanis ($2,200) from a neighbor in their village \u2014 but without a job or savings, they have no way of returning the&nbsp;money.\u201d&nbsp;<ul><li>This is one of the most depressing things I have read in some&nbsp;time.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2021\/11\/13\/san-antonio-pregnancy-center-texas-abortion-ban\/\">What happens when people in Texas can\u2019t get abortions: \u2018Diapers save a lot more babies than ultrasounds\u2019<\/a> (Casey Parks, Washington Post): \u201cI always tell people, \u2018Diapers save a lot more babies than ultrasounds.\u2019 \u201d Haring said. \u201cI don\u2019t want an ultrasound machine. I want tons of diapers. Buy me $20,000, $40,000, $50,000 worth of diapers because if you have a woman who comes in with four kids \u2014 yeah, looking at the baby, she realizes it\u2019s a human being. But if you tell her, \u2018I\u2019m going to give you diapers for all four kids,\u2019 believe me, the diapers for all four kids is going to save that baby a lot quicker than a little pennant on the screen.\u201d<ul><li>It\u2019s rare to read a sympathetic story about a pro-life center in a major American newspaper.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/richardhanania.substack.com\/p\/the-weirdness-of-government-variation?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0NzYxLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NDI4NTA2NSwiXyI6IlFETmxhIiwiaWF0IjoxNjM3NDQ3NzgwLCJleHAiOjE2Mzc0NTEzODAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi05ODEwMiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.Z94Pl3JJoJ-sR9-H9zOJLz8d4doh0yN8OVHlDlsD3Kc\">Philip Yancey\u2019s Message of Grace<\/a> (Peter Wehner, The Atlantic): \u201cYancey told the parents in the audience that, biblically, God grieves as much as they do; that God loves their children as much as they do; and that God is deeply pained by the state of this broken world. To his surprise, he found his faith affirmed rather than shattered. He witnessed in person something the theologian Miroslav Volf wrote on the day after the Newtown shootings: \u2018Those who observe suffering are tempted to reject God; those who experience it often cannot give up on God, their solace and their&nbsp;agony.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d&nbsp;<ul><li>This is one of the most gospel-centric articles I have read in a major publication in quite some&nbsp;time.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/when-all-the-media-narratives-collapse-650\">When All The Media Narratives Collapse<\/a> (Andrew Sullivan, Substack): \u201cIf you look back at the last few years, the record of errors, small and large, about major stories, is hard to deny. It\u2019s as if the more Donald Trump accused the MSM of being \u2018fake news\u2019 the more assiduously they tried to prove him&nbsp;right.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/14\/business\/world-magazine-marvin-olasky-trump.html?referringSource=articleShare\">His Reasons for Opposing Trump Were Biblical. Now a Top Christian Editor Is Out<\/a>. (Ben Smith, New York Times): \u201cAs the longtime editor of World, a Christian news organization that has a website, a biweekly magazine and a set of podcasts, Mr. Olasky has delivered a mix of hard news and watchdog articles about the evangelical realm under a journalistic philosophy he calls \u2018biblical objectivity.\u2019 It involves taking strong stands where the Bible is clear, which has led World to oppose abortion rights and support refugees, he says, and to follow reportable facts where the Bible doesn\u2019t provide clear guidance.\u201d<\/li><li>Some pandemic perspectives:<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2021\/11\/the-covid-pandemic-is-not-taking-the-very-best-of-turns.html?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-covid-pandemic-is-not-taking-the-very-best-of-turns\">The Covid pandemic is not taking the very best of turns<\/a> (Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution): \u201cWhile the fog of war is thick right now, the early data on Nu suggests that it may be a big deal. Even if it\u2019s not, however, it has been obvious since we got the vaccines that vaccine escape is a concern. You can debate whether the probability of a vaccine escaping variant is 20% or 80%, but in any case we need effective contingency plans in place. If we fail to respond effectively to Nu, that will be a considerably greater institutional failure than anything that happened at the outset of the pandemic. We\u2019ve had almost two years since the first COVID case and one year from the vaccine approvals to prepare. So I ask: what is the plan for the vaccine-escaping variant?\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/richardhanania.substack.com\/p\/the-weirdness-of-government-variation?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0NzYxLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NDI4NTA2NSwiXyI6IlFETmxhIiwiaWF0IjoxNjM3NDQ3NzgwLCJleHAiOjE2Mzc0NTEzODAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi05ODEwMiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.Z94Pl3JJoJ-sR9-H9zOJLz8d4doh0yN8OVHlDlsD3Kc\">The Weirdness of Government Variation in COVID-19 Responses<\/a> (Richard Hanania, Substack): \u201cBut imagine at the start of the pandemic, someone had said to you \u2018Everyone will face the existence of the same disease, and have access to the exact same tools to fight it. But in some EU countries or US states, people won\u2019t be allowed to leave their house and have to cover their faces in public. In other places, government will just leave people alone. Vast differences of this sort will exist across jurisdictions that are similar on objective metrics of how bad the pandemic is at any particular moment.\u2019 I would\u2019ve found this to be a very unlikely outcome! You could\u2019ve convinced me EU states would do very little on COVID-19, or that they would do lockdowns everywhere. I would not have believed that you could have two neighboring countries that have similar numbers, but one of them forces everyone to stay home, while the other doesn\u2019t. This is the kind of extreme variation in policy we don\u2019t see in other&nbsp;areas.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/paulkingsnorth.substack.com\/p\/the-vaccine-moment-part-one?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0MzYxNTA0MCwiXyI6ImpNN2hZIiwiaWF0IjoxNjM3ODA5NjcyLCJleHAiOjE2Mzc4MTMyNzIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yNTA4MzYiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.BsSWedBtPbaFWHPa65ATcdzIxKssu7F9G5KYF4Rf-AQ\">The Vaccine Moment, part one<\/a> (Paul Kingsnorth, Substack): \u201cCovid is a revelation. It has lain bare splits in the social fabric that were always there but could be ignored in better times. It has revealed the compliance of the legacy media and the power of Silicon Valley to curate and control the public conversation. It has confirmed the sly dishonesty of political leaders, and their ultimate obeisance to corporate power. It has shown up \u2018The Science\u2019 for the compromised ideology it is. Most of all, it has revealed the authoritarian streak that lies beneath so many people, and which always emerges in fearful times.\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaredWalczak\/status\/1464307935899750407\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaredWalczak\/status\/1464307935899750407\">A tweet that made me laugh<\/a>: \u201cThe WHO chose Omicron over Nu for the variant of concern, probably because it sounds too much like \u2018new.\u2019 But the next letter is not Omicron but Xi. Was that a little too on the nose?\u201d (Jared Walczak, Twitter)<\/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:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2021\/11\/17\">Chronically Late People<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/mexican-food-place-with-a-health-rating-probably-terrible\/\">Mexican Food Place With \u2018A\u2019 Health Rating Probably Terrible<\/a> (Babylon Bee): same with Cajun roadside restaurants. You want to eat at a place that looks like it serves Ebola on the&nbsp;side.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2544\/\">Heart-Stopping Texts<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2545\/\">Bayes\u2019 Theorem<\/a> (xckd)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8rat6gDf4mk\">How Painful Is \u2018Hypnotic Amputation?\u2019<\/a> (QI, YouTube): four minutes with apologetic implications. The really intriguing part starts about 40 seconds in.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FVIKAaAQq-Y\">Italian Mentalist Luca Volpe<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): eight minutes<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fhA3if0FSsw\">The Power of the X<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): nine minutes<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UeGjQHwpzJA\">Getting Past German Immigration<\/a> (Foil Arms and Hog, YouTube): three minutes<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e7VIuDQhNCw\">Skillful Coin Magic<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): six and a half minutes<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2021\/11\/22\">Optimism vs Pessimism<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine): optimism is no substitute for&nbsp;hope<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lB_KBH_NUsQ\">A Dog Does Magic<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): nine minutes<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YVdKq3AkfJ8\">Wolverine Is A Christian<\/a> (X\u2011Men, YouTube): four and a half minutes of surprising content: Nightcrawler witnessing effectively to Wolverine.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8h_N80qKYOM\">Republican or Not?<\/a> (Saturday Night Live, YouTube): five and a half minutes that\u2019s cleverer than you might&nbsp;think<\/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:\/\/iasc-culture.org\/THR\/THR_article_2018_Summer_Christman.php\">What Is It Like to Be a Man?<\/a> (Phil Christman, The Hedgehog Review): \u201cI live out my masculinity most often as a perverse avoidance of comfort: the refusal of good clothes, moisturizer, painkillers; hard physical training, pursued for its own sake and not because I enjoy it; a sense that there is a set amount of physical pain or self\u2010imposed discipline that I owe the universe.\u201d Very well\u2010written. Everyone will likely find parts they resonate with and parts they reject. The author is a lecturer at the University of Michigan and based on his CV seems to be a fairly devoted Episcopalian. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/11\/16\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-178\">volume 178<\/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>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks of content distilled into one. 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