{"id":6992,"date":"2022-08-19T14:03:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T22:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6992"},"modified":"2022-08-19T14:03:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T22:03:46","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-364","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2022\/08\/19\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-364","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 364"},"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

This, the 364th install\u00adment, can also be expressed as the sum of con\u00adsec\u00adu\u00adtive primes: 11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47 + 53<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. One Man\u00adner of Law<\/a> (Mar\u00adi\u00adlynne Robin\u00adson, Harpers): \u201cAlmost fifty years ago, I learned by pure acci\u00addent that a code of law was drawn up in Mass\u00ada\u00adchu\u00adsetts in 1641 that sub\u00adstan\u00adtial\u00adly antic\u00adi\u00adpat\u00aded the Bill of Rights. I hap\u00adpened to read a let\u00adter to the edi\u00adtor in the New York Times<\/em> that men\u00adtioned the Mass\u00ada\u00adchu\u00adsetts Body of Lib\u00ader\u00adties. I had a PhD by then and was sup\u00adpos\u00aded\u00adly an Amer\u00adi\u00adcan\u00adist by train\u00ading, yet I was learn\u00ading of this for the first time. When I final\u00adly read these laws, I won\u00addered why the nar\u00adra\u00adtive of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan his\u00adto\u00adry did not begin with them.\u201d<\/li>
  2. The Girls Who Resist\u00aded Boko Haram<\/a> (Jonathon Van Maren, First Things): \u201cWhile the world demand\u00aded their return, the cap\u00adtive girls were under relent\u00adless pres\u00adsure to con\u00advert to Islam and mar\u00adry mil\u00adi\u00adtants cho\u00adsen for them. They were threat\u00adened with behead\u00ading or bru\u00adtal slav\u00adery if they refused. Many of the girls, par\u00ada\u00adlyzed with fear, suc\u00adcumbed. Oth\u00aders buck\u00adled under the brain\u00adwash\u00ading of a mil\u00adi\u00adtant assigned to incul\u00adcate them into the doc\u00adtrines of Islam. He forced the \u2018daugh\u00adters of infi\u00addels\u2019 to take hours-long class\u00ades in which they mem\u00ado\u00adrized the Quran. The girls were told that if they mar\u00adried, they would receive homes, slaves, and hon\u00ador. In secret, the girls shared Bible pas\u00adsages and prayed fer\u00advent\u00adly togeth\u00ader for strength and res\u00adcue. They sang hymns into their hands and cups of water to sti\u00adfle the sound.\u201d<\/li>
  3. Why I Left Acad\u00ade\u00admia (Since You\u2019re Won\u00adder\u00ading)<\/a> (William Dere\u00adsiewicz, Quil\u00adlette): \u201c\u2026it wasn\u2019t so much that I want\u00aded to be treat\u00aded dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly than every\u00adbody as that I want\u00aded every\u00adbody to be treat\u00aded dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly. I want\u00aded the rules to change; I played by the ones that I thought we should have. I insist\u00aded on behav\u00ading as if I exist\u00aded in an envi\u00adron\u00adment that val\u00adued teach\u00ading as much as schol\u00adar\u00adship and intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adism as much as spe\u00adcial\u00adiza\u00adtion. Where open\u00ading the eyes of a hun\u00addred under\u00adgrad\u00adu\u00adates was worth as much as super\u00advis\u00ading one more dis\u00adser\u00adta\u00adtion, and pub\u00adlish\u00ading an essay in a peri\u00adod\u00adi\u00adcal that\u2019s read by tens of thou\u00adsands was as valu\u00adable as adding one more item to the pile of dis\u00adre\u00adgard\u00aded stud\u00adies.\u201d This is quite good, more rel\u00ade\u00advant to the human\u00adi\u00adties than to the sci\u00adences. <\/li>
  4. I Didn\u2019t Want It to Be True, but the Medi\u00adum Real\u00adly Is the Mes\u00adsage<\/a> (Ezra Klein, New York Times): \u201cAmer\u00adi\u00adcans are cap\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adists, and we believe noth\u00ading if not that if a choice is freely made, that grants it a pre\u00adsump\u00adtion against cri\u00adtique. That is one rea\u00adson it\u2019s so hard to talk about how we are changed by the medi\u00adums we use. That con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion, on some lev\u00adel, demands val\u00adue judg\u00adments. This was on my mind recent\u00adly, when I heard Jonathan Haidt, a social psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgist who\u2019s been col\u00adlect\u00ading data on how social media harms teenagers, say, blunt\u00adly, \u2018Peo\u00adple talk about how to tweak it \u2014 oh, let\u2019s hide the like coun\u00adters. Well, Insta\u00adgram tried \u2014 but let me say this very clear\u00adly: There is no way, no tweak, no archi\u00adtec\u00adtur\u00adal change that will make it OK for teenage girls to post pho\u00adtos of them\u00adselves, while they\u2019re going through puber\u00adty, for strangers or oth\u00aders to rate pub\u00adlicly.\u2019 \u201d