{"id":7618,"date":"2025-01-31T18:47:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T02:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7618"},"modified":"2025-01-31T18:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T02:47:49","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-489","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/01\/31\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-489","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 489"},"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\" 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 width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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>\n\n    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<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:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/to-hate-the-vulnerable-roe-at-52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">To Hate the Vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble: Roe at 52<\/a> (Nadya Williams, Mere Ortho\u00addoxy): \u201cDo we as a soci\u00adety real\u00adize that we tell some peo\u00adple out\u00adright: Your life is not worth liv\u00ading.&nbsp; You do not deserve to live. Your child does not deserve to live. What kind of mon\u00adsters does this make us?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/highercode.substack.com\/p\/winning-the-lottery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Win\u00adning The Lot\u00adtery<\/a> (Kasen Stephensen, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cUlti\u00admate\u00adly, what I learned at Stan\u00adford was how to think for myself. Con\u00adfront\u00aded with a cul\u00adture for\u00adeign to my own upbring\u00ading and des\u00adper\u00adate to belong, I looked to my fel\u00adlow stu\u00addents for guid\u00adance and at times lost sight of the lessons I learned from my fam\u00adi\u00adly and on my mis\u00adsion. While I appre\u00adci\u00adate my new ana\u00adlyt\u00adi\u00adcal skills and blos\u00adsom\u00ading ambi\u00adtion, I reject the premise implic\u00adit at Stan\u00adford: that your worth is mea\u00adsured by your income, the pres\u00adtige of your job, and your family\u2019s con\u00adnec\u00adtions. I redis\u00adcov\u00adered the key lessons from my mis\u00adsion: hap\u00adpi\u00adness, for me, is found in intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal curios\u00adi\u00adty, acts of ser\u00advice, and gen\u00aduine rela\u00adtion\u00adships with oth\u00aders, whether with friends, team-mates, fam\u00adi\u00adly mem\u00adbers, or the woman I would mar\u00adry.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by an alum\u00adnus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2025\/01\/what-it-means-protestant-case-always-reforming-church-gavin-ortlund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Best Argu\u00adment for Protes\u00adtantism Is Its Catholic\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (N. Gray Sutan\u00adto, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201c\u2026Ortlund high\u00adlights how the Reform\u00aders defend\u00aded their over\u00adar\u00adch\u00ading the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy in a sur\u00adpris\u00ading way. Not only, they argued, were Protes\u00adtant posi\u00adtions more bib\u00adli\u00adcal than their non-Protes\u00adtant coun\u00adter\u00adparts; they were also more <em>catholic<\/em>\u2014in the sense of fur\u00adther\u00ading the goal of a uni\u00adfied church. In their view, Catholic the\u00adolo\u00adgians were the ones depart\u00ading from apos\u00adtolic and patris\u00adtic, or ear\u00adly-church, teach\u00ading. As Ortlund notes,\u2019\u201cthe ear\u00adly Protes\u00adtants argued on <em>catholic and his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal grounds<\/em>,\u2019 not mere\u00adly the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal grounds, against a host of Roman Catholic doc\u00adtrines.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A sol\u00adid review of an excel\u00adlent book (<em>What It Means To Be Protes\u00adtant<\/em> by Gavin Ortlund).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/culture\/article\/faith-religion-happiness-spirituality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Can reli\u00adgion make you hap\u00adpy? Sci\u00aden\u00adtists may soon find out.<\/a> (Julia Fly\u00adnn Siler, Nation\u00adal Geo\u00adgraph\u00adic): \u201cA team of schol\u00adars, in part\u00adner\u00adship with polling firm Gallup, has begun a five-year study of over 200,000 par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpants from 22 coun\u00adtries, to fig\u00adure out what leads to what researchers call flour\u00adish\u00ading. To flour\u00adish is to be more than mere\u00adly hap\u00adpy; it\u2019s a met\u00adric meant to show if peo\u00adple are \u2018liv\u00ading in a state in which all aspects of a per\u00adson\u00ad\u2019s life are good.\u2019\u2026 That data isn\u2019t in yet. But the results obtained so far back up what Pew and oth\u00ader researchers have found. The aver\u00adage flour\u00adish\u00ading score was 0.23 points high\u00ader for some\u00adone who says that reli\u00adgion is an impor\u00adtant part of their dai\u00adly life than for some\u00adone who does not \u2013 and 0.41 points high\u00ader for some\u00adone who attends a reli\u00adgious ser\u00advice at least week\u00adly.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6035757\/2025\/01\/08\/jim-crutchfield-nova-southeastern-dii-basketball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBA greats think this D\u2011II coach is a bas\u00adket\u00adball genius. So why don\u2019t you know who he is<\/a>? (CJ Moore, The New York Times): \u201cCrutch\u00adfield, a for\u00admer math teacher who nev\u00ader played col\u00adlege bas\u00adket\u00adball and coached ten\u00adnis before get\u00adting his big D\u2011II break at West Lib\u00ader\u00adty Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty, sees the game like a math prob\u00adlem and has cre\u00adat\u00aded his own cal\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adtions.\u2026 When he grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded from West Vir\u00adginia in 1978, Crutch\u00adfield want\u00aded to be a high school bas\u00adket\u00adball coach. A year lat\u00ader, he had giv\u00aden up, return\u00ading to his alma mater to go to law school. \u2018Too big a dream,\u2019 he thought. He passed the LSAT and rent\u00aded an apart\u00adment in Mor\u00adgan\u00adtown. Then he got a call out of nowhere, offer\u00ading him the boys bas\u00adket\u00adball coach\u00ading posi\u00adtion at a small school in the state\u2019s north\u00adern pan\u00adhan\u00addle. He\u2019s not even sure who rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded him. Crutch\u00adfield sold his law books, lost the deposit on his apart\u00adment and moved to Cameron, W.V.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persuasion.community\/p\/the-case-against-drinking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Case Against Drink\u00ading<\/a> (Sam Kahn, Per\u00adsua\u00adsion): \u201cFrom as far back as I can remem\u00adber, my plan had been to be a kind of low-inten\u00adsi\u00adty alco\u00adholic. I hoped that it wouldn\u2019t make me beat my fam\u00adi\u00adly or wet myself at work, and that it wouldn\u2019t lead to organ fail\u00adure in the end\u2014always the ques\u00adtion, isn\u2019t it?\u2014but it seemed a gam\u00adble worth tak\u00ading. The social life of the West is built almost entire\u00adly around the copi\u00adous con\u00adsump\u00adtion of alco\u00adhol, with its pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal life close\u00adly adja\u00adcent to that.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A sol\u00adid essay that (cor\u00adrect\u00adly) defends Pro\u00adhi\u00adbi\u00adtion and makes many good points. I do not think drink\u00ading is always a sin, but I do not drink myself and am hap\u00adpy to encour\u00adage you not to, either.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stanforddaily.com\/2025\/01\/30\/i-used-to-think-my-peers-were-antisemitic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I used to think my peers were anti\u00adse\u00admit\u00adic. Now, I\u2019ve changed my mind.<\/a> (Julia Segal, Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly): \u201c\u2018How many of you have heard about this before?\u2019 I ask the wide-eyed clus\u00adter of Stan\u00adford stu\u00addents in our hotel con\u00adfer\u00adence room. A few sec\u00adonds of silence go by as eyes dart around the room. Final\u00adly, scat\u00adtered hands go up \u2014 approx\u00adi\u00admate\u00adly half the room. The thing I was ask\u00ading if they\u2019d head about? Oct. 7. The mas\u00adsacre of rough\u00adly 1,300 peo\u00adple in Israel, in the small farm\u00ading vil\u00adlages and at a music fes\u00adti\u00adval. The dead\u00adliest day for Jews since the Holo\u00adcaust. Ear\u00adli\u00ader this year, I would have been sur\u00adprised that half the Stan\u00adford stu\u00addents in the room had nev\u00ader heard about Oct. 7. But I was com\u00ading off the tail-end of dozens of inter\u00adviews for a trip to vis\u00adit the Nova Exhi\u00adbi\u00adtion in L.A., where the typ\u00adi\u00adcal answer to \u2018What have you heard about Oct. 7?\u2019 was \u2018to be hon\u00adest, not much,\u2019 and some\u00adtimes even, \u2018I hadn\u2019t heard about it until I saw your email and googled it.\u2019\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I\u2019m gen\u00aduine\u00adly shocked and it puts some of last year\u2019s cam\u00adpus activism into per\u00adspec\u00adtive.<\/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=\"wp-block-list simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/dd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mas\u00adcot<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VbV1-qJIh0s\"> The Top 3 Rea\u00adsons It\u2019s Ok To Knock Out A Dog.<\/a> (Shayne Smith, YouTube): five hilar\u00adi\u00adous min\u00adutes. If you watch and enjoy it, fol\u00adlow it up with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VDuzdATat4k\">Banned From Karate. <\/a> (Shayne Smith, YouTube): thir\u00adty-three min\u00adutes. Guys in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar have found this one hys\u00adter\u00adi\u00adcal. Some gals like it, some do not. <\/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. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Less Seri\u00adous Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen Why Do You Send This Email? In \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/01\/31\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-489\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 489\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":[121,143,259,124,153,167,202,135],"class_list":["post-7618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-abortion","tag-alcohol","tag-antisemitism","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-catholicism","tag-euthanasia","tag-sports","tag-stanford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1YS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618","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=7618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7619,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions\/7619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}