{"id":7536,"date":"2024-11-01T17:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T00:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7536"},"modified":"2024-11-01T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T00:24:05","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-476","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/11\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-476","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 476"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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><br><br>    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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a short\u00ader-than-nor\u00admal edi\u00adtion because I\u2019ve had a busy week and haven\u2019t read as much as I nor\u00admal\u00adly do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.natesilver.net\/p\/theres-more-herding-in-swing-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">There\u2019s more herd\u00ading in swing state polls than at a sheep farm in the Scot\u00adtish High\u00adlands<\/a> (Nate Sil\u00adver, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cHow many [recent polls] showed the race in either direc\u00adtion with\u00adin 2.5 per\u00adcent\u00adage points, close enough that you could basi\u00adcal\u00adly call it a tie? Well, 193 of them did, or 78 per\u00adcent. That\u2019s way more than you should get in the\u00ado\u00adry \u2014 even if the can\u00addi\u00addates are actu\u00adal\u00adly exact\u00adly tied in all sev\u00aden states, which they almost cer\u00adtain\u00adly aren\u2019t.\u2026 Based on a bino\u00admi\u00adal dis\u00adtri\u00adb\u00adu\u00adtion \u2014 which assumes that all polls are inde\u00adpen\u00addent of one anoth\u00ader, which the\u00ado\u00adret\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly they should be \u2014 it\u2019s <em>real\u00adl\u00adl\u00adl\u00adl\u00adl\u00adl\u00adl\u00adl\u00adl\u00adl\u00adl\u00adl\u00adly<\/em> unlike\u00adly. Specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, the odds are 1 in 9.5 tril\u00adlion against at least this many polls show\u00ading such a close mar\u00adgin.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today\u2019s pod\u00adcast <em>The Bul\u00adletin<\/em> ran inter\u00adviews with three Chris\u00adtians vot\u00ading dif\u00adfer\u00adent ways. Pre\u00adsent\u00aded in the order in which they aired:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/stop-look-listen-voting-third-party\/id1653893811?i=1000673143003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vot\u00ading Third Par\u00adty<\/a> (Matt Martens): \u201cHe\u2019s a tri\u00adal lawyer, a for\u00admer fed\u00ader\u00adal pros\u00ade\u00adcu\u00adtor, a sem\u00adi\u00adnary grad\u00adu\u00adate, a legal ethics pro\u00adfes\u00adsor, and an award-win\u00adning author. Martens\u2019s writ\u00ading has appeared in <em>The Wall Street Jour\u00adnal<\/em>, <em>The Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post<\/em>, and oth\u00ader out\u00adlets, and he has spo\u00adken at numer\u00adous uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties across the coun\u00adtry.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/stop-look-listen-voting-democrat\/id1653893811?i=1000673973698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vot\u00ading Demo\u00adc\u00adrat<\/a> (David French): \u201cHe\u2019s a colum\u00adnist for <em>The New York Times<\/em> and a for\u00admer senior edi\u00adtor of <em>The Dis\u00adpatch<\/em>. He\u2019s the author most recent\u00adly of <em>Divid\u00aded We Fall: Amer\u00adi\u00adca\u2019s Seces\u00adsion Threat and How to Restore Our Nation.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/stop-look-listen-voting-republican\/id1653893811?i=1000674877755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vot\u00ading Repub\u00adli\u00adcan<\/a> (Eric Teet\u00adsel): \u201cTeet\u00adsel was vice pres\u00adi\u00addent of gov\u00adern\u00adment rela\u00adtions at The Her\u00aditage Foun\u00adda\u00adtion, was chief of staff to US sen\u00ada\u00adtor Josh Haw\u00adley of Mis\u00adsouri, and served as pres\u00adi\u00addent of the Fam\u00adi\u00adly Pol\u00adi\u00adcy Alliance of Kansas.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scottsumner.substack.com\/p\/what-economists-dont-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What econ\u00ado\u00admists don\u2019t know<\/a> (Scott Sum\u00adn\u00ader, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cI am not impressed when some\u00adone tells me that a small homo\u00adge\u00adneous coun\u00adtry has less inequal\u00adi\u00adty than the US. I am impressed by the fact that almost every sin\u00adgle eth\u00adnic group in Amer\u00adi\u00adca is more suc\u00adcess\u00adful than the equiv\u00ada\u00adlent eth\u00adnic group in their home coun\u00adtry.\u2026 Right now, the US econ\u00ado\u00admy is the envy of the world. Before we replace free mar\u00adkets with an indus\u00adtri\u00adal pol\u00adi\u00adcy, we might wish to com\u00adpare upside and down\u00adside risks from inter\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adism. Giv\u00aden that our liv\u00ading stan\u00addards are cur\u00adrent\u00adly the high\u00adest in the world (at least for coun\u00adtries of more than 10 mil\u00adlion), in which direc\u00adtion are the risks the great\u00adest?\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is an econ pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Bent\u00adley.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/30\/science\/earth-continents-geology-research.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Many Con\u00adti\u00adnents Are There? You May Not Like the Answers<\/a>. (Matt Kaplan, New York Times): \u201cThe dis\u00adpute aris\u00ades in part because there are real\u00adly two types of con\u00adti\u00adnents: Those rec\u00adog\u00adnized by cul\u00adtures around the world, and those rec\u00adog\u00adnized by geol\u00ado\u00adgists. Cul\u00adtures can define a con\u00adti\u00adnent any way they want, while geol\u00ado\u00adgists have to use a def\u00adi\u00adn\u00adi\u00adtion. And geo\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal research in recent years has made defin\u00ading con\u00adti\u00adnen\u00adtal bound\u00adaries less sim\u00adple than it might have once seemed as researchers find evi\u00addence of unex\u00adpect\u00aded con\u00adti\u00adnen\u00adtal mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal.\u201d<\/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=\"wp-block-list simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2024\/10\/20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Side Effects<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2024\/10\/29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In Order To Vote<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2024\/10\/23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Social Media<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/consciousness-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Con\u00adscious\u00adness<\/a> (SMBC) \u2014 amus\u00ading with a point worth pon\u00adder\u00ading<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/addict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ratio\u00adnal Addic\u00adtion<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.\n\nAlso, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.\n\nIf this was for\u00adward\u00aded 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 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. This is a short\u00ad\u00ader-than-nor\u00ad\u00admal edi\u00adtion because I\u2019ve had a busy week and haven\u2019t read as much as I \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/11\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-476\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 476\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-7536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1Xy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7539,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions\/7539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}