{"id":7269,"date":"2023-09-08T16:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T23:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2023-09-08T16:09:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T23:09:02","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-419","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/09\/08\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-419","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 419"},"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 419, a twin prime number (paired with&nbsp;421).<\/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\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published\" target=\"_blank\">I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published<\/a> (Patrick T Brown, The Free Press): \u201cIn theory, scientific research should prize curiosity, dispassionate objectivity, and a commitment to uncovering the truth. Surely those are the qualities that editors of scientific journals should value. In reality, though, the biases of the editors (and the reviewers they call upon to evaluate submissions) exert a major influence on the collective output of entire fields. They select what gets published from a large pool of entries, and in doing so, they also shape how research is conducted more broadly. Savvy researchers tailor their studies to maximize the likelihood that their work is accepted. I know this because I am one of&nbsp;them.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author did his PhD at Duke and his postdoc at Stanford.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He\u2019s responded online to some criticisms of his article at  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickTBrown31\/status\/1699800150942839082\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickTBrown31\/status\/1699800150942839082<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickTBrown31\/status\/1699846065871061231\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickTBrown31\/status\/1699846065871061231<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Read this as an indictment of some weaknesses of academia generally rather than fixating on the specific topic being used as an illustration.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2023\/09\/texting-with-ai-jesus\" target=\"_blank\">Texting With AI Jesus<\/a> (Casey Chalk, First Things): \u201cText With Jesus represents the age-old human vice of pride. Through our creativity and brilliance, we seek to ascend to God\u2019s level, to be like him, and even to dictate terms to the divine. Or rather, the app is a diabolical inversion of this: Instead of being transformed into God\u2019s image, we aim to make him into our&nbsp;own.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/brianmattson.substack.com\/p\/baptized-bronze-age-pervert?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">Baptized Bronze Age Pervert<\/a> (Brian Mattson, Substack): \u201cSo-called \u2018Christian Nationalism\u2019 is a renaissance of 19th century \u2018blood and soil\u2019 nationalism with some \u2018Christiany\u2019 language sprinkled on top.\u2026 They are baptizing the language, ethos, and ethics of a Nietzschean pagan\u2014a <em>literal<\/em> antichrist. An awful lot of \u2018Christian Nationalism\u2019 sounds to me like Baptized Bronze Age Pervert. Perverse, is&nbsp;right.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thezvi.substack.com\/p\/who-has-the-best-food?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">Who Has The Best Food?<\/a> (Zvi Mowshowitz, Substack): \u201cIt is a fun question going around the internet this past week, so here we go. In particular, people focused on the question of France vs. America. As one would expect, those on the French side think those on the American side are crazy, it is insulting to even consider this a question. Those on the American side like food.\u2026 What I love most about American food, and eating in America in general, is that it is the opposite of the French mistake of trying to impress you or waste your time. American food wants you to be happy, it wants to give you the experience you want and not hold back, it values your time and it does not much care how it looks doing&nbsp;it.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2023\/09\/burning-man-is-a-capitalist-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burning Man is a capitalist lie<\/a> (Mary Harrington, UnHerd): \u201cSometimes described as an experiment in \u2018radical self-sufficiency\u2019, Burning Man is perhaps more accurately an experiment in creating a radical post-scarcity society by having done all your shopping ahead of&nbsp;time.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.readtangle.com\/how-media-companies-can-earn-trust\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to actually win back trust in news.<\/a> (Isaac Saul, Tangle): \u201cNow, there are a few things worth noting here. One is that a reporter who is liberal is not definitively a biased liberal reporter. There are <em>fair journalists <\/em>and there are <em>hacks<\/em>. I know a lot of journalists with liberal political beliefs who are <em>harder <\/em>on Democrats <em>precisely because they care about fairness and about how Democrats act. <\/em>I know a lot of liberal journalists whose politics you\u2019d never spot by reading their reporting.\u2026&nbsp; This, in some ways, actually creates an unexpected imbalance in the media: Conservative journalists and pundits, sensing that they are the minority in the space, are far more reluctant to criticize \u2018their side.\u2019 Liberal journalists and pundits, understanding that they can \u2018stick out\u2019 or earn credit by being hard on both sides, are more willing to do so. It\u2019s complicated. Just because The New York Times is overwhelmingly made up of people who probably vote for Democrats doesn\u2019t mean that it\u2019s always going to play nice with Democratic politicians. My favorite example to cite is that it was The New York Times that broke the \u2018Hillary emails\u2019 story, which effectively ruined her political career.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Recommended by an alumnus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/the-misogyny-myth\" target=\"_blank\">The Misogyny Myth<\/a> (John Tierney<em>, <\/em>City Journal): \u201cGender disparities generally matter only if they work against women. In computing its Global Gender Gap, the much-quoted annual report, the World Economic Forum has explicitly ignored male disadvantages: if men fare worse on a particular dimension, a country still gets a perfect score for equality on that measure. Prodded by the federal Title IX law banning sexual discrimination in schools, educators have concentrated on eliminating disparities in athletics but not in other extracurricular programs, which mostly skew female. The fact that there are now three female college students for every two males is of no concern to the White House Gender Policy Council. Its \u2018National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality\u2019 doesn\u2019t even mention boys\u2019 struggles in school, instead focusing exclusively on new ways to help female students get further ahead.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Long, worth the read especially if you\u2019re unfamiliar with the arguments that modern society is structured to advantage women over&nbsp;men.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Related: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2023\/august-web-only\/biblical-fatherhood-vision-of-masculinity.html?share=3uB5sFv0SIkGDPS3fzVD%2fKGSlk2hQaoi\" target=\"_blank\">How Then Should Men Live?<\/a> (Mike Cosper, Christianity Today): \u201cThe new social script for women is at once purposeful and libertarian. Girls can do anything, as the slogan goes, including\u2014if they want\u2014pursuing a traditional model of marriage and family. Meanwhile, Reeves says, men have yet to find our new social script. The old role of breadwinner, protector, and spiritual head of the household isn\u2019t merely viewed as quaint; it\u2019s often seen as paternalistic or&nbsp;worse.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I also believe this to be related: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/secularization-begins-at-home\" target=\"_blank\">Secularization Begins at Home<\/a> (Lyman Stone, The Institute For Family Studies): \u201cBy now, it should be clear that childhood, including before age 13, is the key battleground for religious formation, <em>not <\/em>adulthood. By the time a child goes to college, much of the religious question has already been settled.\u2026 For parents to keep their kids in the faith, they must recapture their influence. Shield children from schooling environments that relegate faith to a second-class topic, deny access to unsupervised online communities and pornography, and have daily, parent-led activities centered on family solidarity around shared faith. Families that do these things still have extremely high rates of successful religious transmission, but families who trust that children will \u2018pick it up along the way\u2019 fail to transmit their religious beliefs, and suddenly find to their great surprise that their 20-something children categorically reject their&nbsp;faith.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/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\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/contrived\" target=\"_blank\">Contrived<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O67dGv5kIOU\" target=\"_blank\">Broadcasters react to star QB\u2019s unusual protest<\/a> (FIRE, YouTube): two amusing minutes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/2023\/09\/01\/cal-stanford-smu-acc-expansion-makes-no-sense\" target=\"_blank\">Dear Cal, Stanford and SMU: The ACC Makes No Sense, but Welcome!<\/a> (Michael Rosenberg, Sports Illustrated): \u201cFriends, distinguished guests and students of all GPAs, we are proud to announce the addition of Stanford, Cal and SMU to the ACC, which shall be known, henceforth, as the Arbitrary Conglomerate of Colleges.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/p\/my-presidential-platform?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">My Presidential Platform<\/a> (Scott Alexander, Astral Codex Ten): \u201cJim Justice is the current governor of West Virginia. If he were on the Supreme Court, people would have to address him as Justice Justice. I believe that we as a nation can and should make this happen.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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