{"id":7732,"date":"2025-07-05T13:19:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T20:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7732"},"modified":"2025-07-05T13:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T20:19:24","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-511-cps-prosperity-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/07\/05\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-511-cps-prosperity-journalism","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 511: CPS, prosperity, & journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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On Fridays<\/s> \u2014 sometimes Saturdays when Friday is a holiday \u2014 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 way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. ICE Goes After Church Leaders and Christians Fleeing Persecution<\/a> (Andy Olsen, Christianity Today): \u201cThe pastor asks if he can go with them or even follow them. \u2018They need me,\u2019 he says. An agent says the pastor cannot go with them. Torosian tells the agents that the couple was persecuted in Iran and fled because of their faith. The agents don\u2019t respond. \u2018They came here for freedom, not like this,\u2019 Torosian tells the agents. \u2018I know you are doing your job, but shame on you. Shame on this government.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Does CPS Investigate One Third of All Children in the US?<\/a> (Maxwell Tabarrok, Substack): \u201cDoes CPS investigate one out of every three American children? The answer to this one is not available directly in the primary source reports and the underlying data is only available after an application for research use, so we\u2019ll have to trust a group of researchers at the Washington University school of public health. They download and de-duplicate the master data files from 2003\u20132014 and confirm that 37% of American children are the subject of at least one screened-in referral to CPS from ages 0\u201318.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Have You Heard the Good News?<\/a> (Clifford S. Asness and Michael R. Strain, The Free Press): \u201cYes, we have real problems. But widen the aperture, and you\u2019ll see that there has never been a better time to be alive than the present day.\u2026 a relative standard will always find relative poverty. But using an absolute standard finds that income poverty is below 6 percent. On a consumption basis, well over 20 percent of households were in poverty in the 1960s, and 11 percent were in poverty in 1990. Today, the consumption poverty rate is around 1 percent.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. When We Started To Lie<\/a> (Matti Friedman, The Free Press): \u201cPeople writing letters complaining about press errors and demanding corrections, then and now, miss the point: These aren\u2019t errors. They\u2019re the result of the press doing a different job correctly.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Duke Law Journal Sent a Secret Memo to Minority Applicants Telling Them They\u2019d Get Extra Points for Writing About Their Race<\/a> (Aaron Sibarium, Washington Free Beacon): \u201cWhen the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in 2023, it said that colleges and universities could not use essays as a Trojan horse for racial preferences. The documents from Duke illustrate how a top law review has skirted that directive, creating a points-based system that foregrounds race and could put the law school in legal jeopardy.\u2026 The packet was overseen by journal editor in chief Gabriela Nagle Alverio, who received her B.A. in Gender and Sexuality Studies from Stanford University\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. You Don\u2019t Need the Same Politics to Surf Together<\/a> (David Litt, The Free Press): \u201cBut over the years, Matt and I got to know each other better, and the better we got to know each other, the clearer it became that we had absolutely nothing in common. He was into Ultimate Fighting; I was into Ultimate Frisbee. He was covered in tattoos; I was covered in J.Crew. His definition of a workplace injury was death by violent electric shock; mine was carpal tunnel syndrome.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Where I Learned the Power of Looking at Everything<\/a> (Rachel Kushner, New York Times): \u201cHaving arrived early for the ceremony, I lingered near Sather Gate, with its ornate patinated metalwork, and then headed toward Doe Library, where I used to not study and stared at people instead. Everything glowed with a kind of institutional grandeur. My superego scolded me further: \u2018Look where you were! The best public university in the world, only to squander your luck!\u2019 The beauty of the campus, which I had no memory of appreciating, seemed almost crushing in its majesty.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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