{"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 Fri\u00addays<\/s> \u2014 some\u00adtimes Sat\u00adur\u00addays when Fri\u00adday is a hol\u00adi\u00adday \u2014 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

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. ICE Goes After Church Lead\u00aders and Chris\u00adtians Flee\u00ading Per\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adtion<\/a> (Andy Olsen, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cThe pas\u00adtor asks if he can go with them or even fol\u00adlow them. \u2018They need me,\u2019 he says. An agent says the pas\u00adtor can\u00adnot go with them. Torosian tells the agents that the cou\u00adple was per\u00adse\u00adcut\u00aded in Iran and fled because of their faith. The agents don\u2019t respond. \u2018They came here for free\u00addom, not like this,\u2019 Torosian tells the agents. \u2018I know you are doing your job, but shame on you. Shame on this gov\u00adern\u00adment.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Does CPS Inves\u00adti\u00adgate One Third of All Chil\u00addren in the US?<\/a> (Maxwell Tabar\u00adrok, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cDoes CPS inves\u00adti\u00adgate one out of every three Amer\u00adi\u00adcan chil\u00addren? The answer to this one is not avail\u00adable direct\u00adly in the pri\u00adma\u00adry source reports and the under\u00adly\u00ading data is only avail\u00adable after an appli\u00adca\u00adtion for research use, so we\u2019ll have to trust a group of researchers at the Wash\u00ading\u00adton Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty school of pub\u00adlic health. They down\u00adload and de-dupli\u00adcate the mas\u00adter data files from 2003\u20132014 and con\u00adfirm that 37% of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan chil\u00addren are the sub\u00adject of at least one screened-in refer\u00adral to CPS from ages 0\u201318.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Have You Heard the Good News?<\/a> (Clif\u00adford S. Asness and Michael R. Strain, The Free Press): \u201cYes, we have real prob\u00adlems. But widen the aper\u00adture, and you\u2019ll see that there has nev\u00ader been a bet\u00adter time to be alive than the present day.\u2026 a rel\u00ada\u00adtive stan\u00addard will always find rel\u00ada\u00adtive pover\u00adty. But using an absolute stan\u00addard finds that income pover\u00adty is below 6 per\u00adcent. On a con\u00adsump\u00adtion basis, well over 20 per\u00adcent of house\u00adholds were in pover\u00adty in the 1960s, and 11 per\u00adcent were in pover\u00adty in 1990. Today, the con\u00adsump\u00adtion pover\u00adty rate is around 1 per\u00adcent.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. When We Start\u00aded To Lie<\/a> (Mat\u00adti Fried\u00adman, The Free Press): \u201cPeo\u00adple writ\u00ading let\u00adters com\u00adplain\u00ading about press errors and demand\u00ading cor\u00adrec\u00adtions, then and now, miss the point: These aren\u2019t errors. They\u2019re the result of the press doing a dif\u00adfer\u00adent job cor\u00adrect\u00adly.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Duke Law Jour\u00adnal Sent a Secret Memo to Minor\u00adi\u00adty Appli\u00adcants Telling Them They\u2019d Get Extra Points for Writ\u00ading About Their Race<\/a> (Aaron Sibar\u00adi\u00adum, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Free Bea\u00adcon): \u201cWhen the Supreme Court banned affir\u00adma\u00adtive action in 2023, it said that col\u00adleges and uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties could not use essays as a Tro\u00adjan horse for racial pref\u00ader\u00adences. The doc\u00adu\u00adments from Duke illus\u00adtrate how a top law review has skirt\u00aded that direc\u00adtive, cre\u00adat\u00ading a points-based sys\u00adtem that fore\u00adgrounds race and could put the law school in legal jeop\u00adardy.\u2026 The pack\u00adet was over\u00adseen by jour\u00adnal edi\u00adtor in chief Gabriela Nagle Alve\u00adrio, who received her B.A. in Gen\u00adder and Sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty Stud\u00adies from Stan\u00adford Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. You Don\u2019t Need the Same Pol\u00adi\u00adtics to Surf Togeth\u00ader<\/a> (David Litt, The Free Press): \u201cBut over the years, Matt and I got to know each oth\u00ader bet\u00adter, and the bet\u00adter we got to know each oth\u00ader, the clear\u00ader it became that we had absolute\u00adly noth\u00ading in com\u00admon. He was into Ulti\u00admate Fight\u00ading; I was into Ulti\u00admate Fris\u00adbee. He was cov\u00adered in tat\u00adtoos; I was cov\u00adered in J.Crew. His def\u00adi\u00adn\u00adi\u00adtion of a work\u00adplace injury was death by vio\u00adlent elec\u00adtric shock; mine was carpal tun\u00adnel syn\u00addrome.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Where I Learned the Pow\u00ader of Look\u00ading at Every\u00adthing<\/a> (Rachel Kush\u00adn\u00ader, New York Times): \u201cHav\u00ading arrived ear\u00adly for the cer\u00ade\u00admo\u00adny, I lin\u00adgered near Sather Gate, with its ornate pati\u00adnat\u00aded met\u00adal\u00adwork, and then head\u00aded toward Doe Library, where I used to not study and stared at peo\u00adple instead. Every\u00adthing glowed with a kind of insti\u00adtu\u00adtion\u00adal grandeur. My super\u00adego scold\u00aded me fur\u00adther: \u2018Look where you were! The best pub\u00adlic uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty in the world, only to squan\u00adder your luck!\u2019 The beau\u00adty of the cam\u00adpus, which I had no mem\u00ado\u00adry of appre\u00adci\u00adat\u00ading, seemed almost crush\u00ading in its majesty.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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