{"id":7296,"date":"2023-10-13T23:17:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T06:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2023-10-13T23:26:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T06:26:30","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-424","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/10\/13\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-424","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 424"},"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 424, which is symmetrical and also the sum of 10 consecutive primes. 424 = 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47 + 53 + 59 +&nbsp;61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Today\u2019s roundup was difficult to assemble. First, there are the obvious emotional challenges of reading too much about the horrific raid by Hamas. If you are wondering whether you should dive deeply into original sources (Instagram stories from on the field, etc), no you should not. It will harm your soul. Second, there is a whole sea of information and opinions and I have a very small bucket. Third, it was a busy week (and today in particular was quite hectic for me). All that having been said, if you find other interesting stories about the unfolding situation in Israel, please send them my&nbsp;way.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\">\n<li>The best\/most interesting stories I\u2019ve seen about the Hamas attack on Israel.&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/10\/amir-tibon-how-his-family-survived-hamas-massacre\/675596\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018We\u2019re Going to Die Here\u2019<\/a> (Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic): \u201cFirst I\u2019m hearing this gunfire from the fields. But then I hear it from the road, then I hear it from the neighborhood, and then I hear it outside my window. I\u2019m in the room with my wife, and I hear the gunfire directly outside my window, as well as shouting. I understand Arabic. I understood exactly what was happening: that Hamas has infiltrated our kibbutz, that there are terrorists outside my window, and that I\u2019m locked in my house and inside my safe room with two young girls, and I don\u2019t know if anyone is going to come to save&nbsp;us.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is an amazing story. 100% worth reading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.readtangle.com\/israel-attacks-hamas-palestine-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">The attacks on Israel, and the response.<\/a> (Isaac Saul, Tangle): \u201cAm I pro-Israel or pro-Palestine? I have no idea. I\u2019m pro-not-killing-civilians. I\u2019m pro-not-trapping-millions-of-people-in-open-air-prisons. I\u2019m pro-not-shooting-grandmas-in-the-back-of-the-head. I\u2019m pro-not-flattening-apartment-complexes. I\u2019m pro-not-raping-women-and-taking-hostages. I\u2019m pro-not-unjustly-imprisoning-people-without-due-process. I\u2019m pro-freedom and pro-peace and pro- all the things we never see in this conflict anymore. Whatever this is, I want none of&nbsp;it.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is a well-done roundup featuring diverse viewpoints.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/darkness-visible-46e?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">Darkness Visible<\/a> (Andrew Sullivan, Substack): \u201cThe more I\u2019ve thought and read about Israel, the more it seems that its founding was both a moral necessity and a practical insanity. The moral necessity is proven by last weekend. If Jews can be subject to a medieval pogrom in their own country in 2023, what hope could they ever have without a country at all? The practical insanity lies in the simple fact that the state of Israel was created on land laden with deep religious symbolism, where much of the existing population did not give consent, and despite the early promise, no country for the Palestinians was ever constructed alongside it.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A more comprehensive essay than many I\u2019ve read so&nbsp;far.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/12\/opinion\/israel-hamas-isis-gaza.html?unlocked_article_code=HeypBfXJcBhZ7TtS0t9GkVqhQhs8BoN0d2UNekTTWihzocCOzdnt6pfKIrZuFtXKMrms4cgbNs5LJJzWkJnhcCRZXzj7tzoDLntOvgbpjweIYFMZNBY1ud9-0Sj2B_PR4zVPplucM_SyIHXKwkBloZR2OHONrzbIhewhPPpLZtJ2lfyUiAez3GXvDDiKwj9A28EEZFNchHzuTeaLQol_AhNHeTPIa06L2yKdd_5ss0FfjspUuFoE1IIPfO3sIEFXOFC5_I4cKyLaaUAxslLfhTSNAjE8QU0xpWHor-qEhgoUEMhYKPhgeyW4mWIdbLYtJHmVR7p9HDz5hPhN1NtZEQ&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\">What It Would Mean to Treat Hamas Like ISIS<\/a> (David French, New York Times): \u201c\u2026Israel\u2019s goal is not to punish Hamas but to defeat it \u2014 to remove it from power in Gaza the way the Iraqi military, the United States and their allies removed ISIS from Mosul, Falluja, Ramadi and every other city ISIS controlled in Iraq. That can\u2019t be accomplished by air power alone. If removing Hamas from power is the goal, then that almost certainly means soldiers and tanks fighting in Gazan cities, block by block, house to house in an area of roughly two million people. The purpose of this newsletter is to give you a primer on both the military difficulty of the task and the humanitarian constraints on it, along with the limitations that are unique to Israel.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unlocked \u2014 a thorough article from an author with highly relevant expertise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinian-war-hamas-attack-border-wall-aa0b0f5f3613b6c6882cf37168e8e8ed\" target=\"_blank\">Hamas practiced in plain sight, posting video of mock attack weeks before border breach<\/a> (Michael Beisecker &amp;&nbsp; Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press): \u201cA slickly produced two-minute propaganda video posted to social media by Hamas on Sept. 12 shows fighters using explosives to blast through a replica of the border gate, sweep in on pickup trucks and then move building by building through a full-scale reconstruction of an Israeli town, firing automatic weapons at human-silhouetted paper targets. The Islamic militant group\u2019s live-fire exercise dubbed operation \u2018Strong Pillar\u2019 also had militants in body armor and combat fatigues carrying out operations that included the destruction of mock-ups of the wall\u2019s concrete towers and a communications antenna, just as they would do for real in the deadly attack last Saturday.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/12\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-egypt-israel-strikes.html\" target=\"_blank\">As Deaths Soar in Gaza From Israeli Strikes, Egypt Offers Aid, but No Exit<\/a> (Declan Walsh, New York Times): \u201cEgypt has long insisted that Israel must solve the Palestinian issue within its borders, to keep alive aspirations for a future Palestinian state. Allowing large numbers of Gazans to cross over, even as refugees, would \u2018revive the idea that Sinai is the alternative country for the Palestinians,\u2019 said Mustapha Kamel al-Sayyid, a political scientist at Cairo University. A related scenario that worries Egypt is that it could end up as the de facto administrator of&nbsp;Gaza.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Egypt, of course, is the only nation besides Israel that shares a border with the Gaza Strip. It is often overlooked by Americans because we don\u2019t know our geography very well, but Egypt is equally involved in preventing the migration of the Palestinians in&nbsp;Gaza.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2023\/10\/10\/how-hamas-entered-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Hamas breached Israel\u2019s \u2018Iron Wall\u2019<\/a> (Samuel Granados, Ruby Mellen, Lauren Tierney, Artur Galocha, Cate Brown and Aaron Steckelberg, Washington Post): \u201cThe fence was breached at 29 points, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Though there wereIsraeli guard towers positioned every 500 feet along the perimeter of the wall at some points, the fighters appeared to encounter little resistance. The border was minimally staffed, it soon became apparent,with much of Israel\u2019s military diverted to focus on unrest in the West&nbsp;Bank.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Detailed and quite interesting. Also not very long to&nbsp;read.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/10\/hamas-pop-intersectionality-leftism-israel\/675625\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Progressives Who Flunked the Hamas Test<\/a> (Helen Lewis, The Atlantic): \u201cIn the fevered world of social media, progressive activists have often sought to discredit hateful statements and unjust policies by describing them as \u2018violence,\u2019 even \u2018genocide.\u2019 This tendency seems grotesque if the same activists are not prepared to criticize Hamas, a group whose founding charter is explicitly genocidal\u2026 Fitting Israel into the intersectional framework has always been difficult, because its Jewish citizens are both historically oppressed\u2014the survivors of an attempt to wipe them out entirely\u2014<em>and<\/em> currently in a dominant position over the Palestinians, as demonstrated by the Netanyahu government\u2019s decision to restrict power and water supplies to Gaza. The simplistic logic of pop intersectionality cannot reconcile this, and the subject caused schisms within the left long before Saturday\u2019s attacks.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This one is especially worth reading for university students. It highlights weaknesses in a perspective you are often taught from.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/a-wounded-weakened-israel-is-a-fiercer-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">A wounded, weakened Israel is a fiercer one<\/a> (Haviv Rettig Gur, The Times of Israel): \u201cHamas seemed to do everything possible to shift Israeli psychology from a comfortable faith in their own strength to a sense of dire vulnerability. And it will soon learn the scale of that miscalculation. A strong Israel may tolerate a belligerent Hamas on its border; a weaker one cannot. A safe Israel can spend much time and resources worrying about the humanitarian fallout from a Gaza ground war; a more vulnerable Israel cannot. A wounded, weakened Israel is a fiercer Israel. Hamas was once a tolerable threat. It just made itself an intolerable one, all while convincing Israelis they are too vulnerable and weak to respond with the old restraint.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some theological\/Christian perspectives:&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/providencemag.com\/2023\/10\/the-way-out-is-through-peace-must-start-with-the-end-of-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Way Out is Through: Peace Must Start with the End of Hamas<\/a> (Marc LiVecche, Providence): \u201cIsrael must do everything possible to minimize the toil on the innocent, and to multiply hell on the monsters.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is a research fellow at the Naval War College and is writing about just war theory as it applies to the conflict between Israel and&nbsp;Hamas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2023\/october\/israel-hamas-gaza-war-palestinian-evangelical-messianic-jew.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amid Israel-Hamas War, Local Christians Seek Righteous Anger and Gospel Hope<\/a> (Jayson Casper, Christianity Today): \u201cNothing about this situation is right or good,\u201d said Lisa Loden, a Messianic Jewish member of the Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice. \u201cBut there is a strong desire to see the Lord use these events to draw people to himself.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/israel-hamas-moral-clarity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Israel\u2019s 9\/11: The Need for Moral Clarity<\/a> (Bernard N. Howard and Ivan Mesa, The Gospel Coalition): \u201cMoral clarity also allows for suitably one-sided prayer. It\u2019s right to pray for the swift defeat of Hamas. The murderous operations room of Hamas will never provide good leadership for the Palestinians living in Gaza. We should by all means pray for both-sided things too: the salvation of people on both sides; the protection, healing, and comfort of people on both sides; and the growth of the church that lives inside the borders of both nations. Even as we pray for these both-sided things, let us boldly call on our God to thwart, frustrate, and defeat the one side that is hell-bent on terrorism.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2023\/october-web-only\/israel-hamas-middle-east-war-christians.html?share=3uB5sFv0SIn3G4AFumsabiemet6YWskR\" target=\"_blank\">American Christians Should Stand with Israel under Attack<\/a> (Russell Moore, Christianity Today): \u201cSometimes, especially in the early moments of any war, we may be uncertain about who is right and who is wrong. There is no such moral confusion here. Hamas\u2014and its state sponsors\u2014attacked innocent people, as they have done repeatedly in the past, this time employing a force and brutality previously unseen.\u2026 As Christians, we should pay special attention to violence directed toward Israel\u2014just as we would pay special attention to a violent attack on a member of our extended family. After all, we are grafted on to the promise made to Abraham (Rom. 11:17). Our Lord Jesus was and is a Jewish man from Galilee.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some Stanford-connected articles:&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.persuasion.community\/p\/this-was-never-supposed-to-happen?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">This Was Never Supposed to Happen<\/a> (Amichai Magen, Persuasion): \u201cAnalysts keen to convey the magnitude of October 7th to American audiences have already tagged it Israel\u2019s Pearl Harbor or 9\/11. Neither label adequately captures the day\u2019s true significance. A more accurate name might be something like \u2018Israel\u2019s civic Yom Kippur.\u2019 Why? Because the very existence of the State of Israel was supposed to guarantee that a day like this would never happen. In the Yom Kippur War of October 1973\u2014when Egypt and Syria launched a surprise assault\u2014Israel lost some 2,700 soldiers, but it managed to effectively protect its civilian population. No Israeli towns or villages were ever breached. The social contract was honored, albeit at a terrible price. On October 7, 2023, it was primarily civilians who were killed, maimed, and kidnapped. This was the day when the IDF wasn\u2019t there to defend the people it was created to protect.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author, himself Israeli, is a Visiting Professor and Fellow in Israel Studies at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stanforddaily.com\/2023\/10\/13\/from-the-community-the-impact-of-hamas-devastating-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\">The impact of Hamas\u2019 devastating attack<\/a> (Matthew Wigler, Stanford Daily): \u201cLike most Jews, I seek the peace and security of Israel as a Jewish state in the indigenous homeland of the Jewish people, a safe haven after millennia of persecution where Jews can finally claim control over their own destiny. Likewise, like most Jews, I also dream of a future of dignity and freedom for the Palestinian people, who, by the very same principles of self-determination, deserve a state of their own in a land that they too have called home for many centuries. However, Hamas\u2019 ideology of hate and methods of terrorism are contrary to that vision.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other interesting stuff not related to the&nbsp;war:&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/gen-z-primed-spiritual-renewal\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Reasons Gen Z Is Primed for Spiritual Renewal<\/a> (Kyle Richter &amp; Patrick Miller, The Gospel Coalition): \u201cOur last meeting of the year was bigger than the first. We started with 300 students and ended with 400. <em>That never happens.<\/em> Then in the fall of this year, it happened again: 500 students attended our first meeting; 600 showed up the next week. <em>This doesn\u2019t happen.<\/em>But it did. And it\u2019s not unique to us. As we talk to campus ministers and pastors from San Francisco to Jacksonville, Billings to Atlanta, DC to Dallas, we know we aren\u2019t alone. Some will urge caution before drawing conclusions. Isn\u2019t this the era of dechurching, deconstruction, and rising \u201cnones\u201d? But data lags behind reality and we don\u2019t want the church to miss what may be happening.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/laneless.substack.com\/p\/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics\" target=\"_blank\">The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics<\/a> (Jai, Substack): \u201cThe Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing <em>more<\/em>. Even if you don\u2019t make the problem worse, even if you make it slightly better, the ethical burden of the problem falls on you as soon as you observe it. In particular, if you interact with a problem and benefit from it, you are a complete monster. I don\u2019t subscribe to this school of thought, but it seems pretty popular.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A few years old, but really good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-03177-1\" target=\"_blank\">Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets<\/a> (Anil Oza, Nature): \u201cIn a massive exercise to examine reproducibility, more than 200 biologists analysed the same sets of ecological data \u2014 and got widely divergent results. The first sweeping study<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www-nature-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org\/articles\/d41586-023-03177-1#ref-CR1\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> of its kind in ecology demonstrates how much results in the field can vary, not because of differences in the environment, but because of scientists\u2019 analytical choices.\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.newser.com\/story\/341051\/authorities-seize-womans-giraffe-poop-at-minnesota-airport.html\" target=\"_blank\">Authorities Seize Woman\u2019s Giraffe Poop at Minnesota Airport<\/a> (Evann Gastaldo, Newser): \u201cthe woman told agriculture specialists from customs that she had the giraffe droppings, explaining that she\u2019d made jewelry from moose feces before and planned to do the same with the giraffe excrement\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A minute of math jokes with a theological(ish) twist at the end: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CxVsyZyxj-W\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CxVsyZyxj\u2011W\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A minute on why you have to keep repeating \u201cI love you\u201d <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/WkGIiRe\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/WkGIiRe<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2839\/\" target=\"_blank\">Language Acquisition<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a0Pw_TxBe7w\" target=\"_blank\">Actor Not Sure if He\u2019s Supposed to Support Israel or Palestine<\/a> (Ryan Long, YouTube): three minutes of clever (and one point mildly vulgar) cultural commentary<\/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>. 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