{"id":7741,"date":"2025-07-18T18:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T01:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7741"},"modified":"2025-07-18T18:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T01:13:41","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-513-elite-colleges-pathologizing-personality-and-the-fastest-woman-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/07\/18\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-513-elite-colleges-pathologizing-personality-and-the-fastest-woman-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 513: elite colleges, pathologizing personality, and the fastest woman in the world"},"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:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/15\/opinion\/college-admissions-essays.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elite Col\u00adleges Have Found a New Virtue for Appli\u00adcants to Fake<\/a> (Alex Bronzi\u00adni-Vender, New York Times): \u201c[There is] a new ques\u00adtion: \u2018Tell us about a moment when you engaged in a dif\u00adfi\u00adcult con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion or encoun\u00adtered some\u00adone with an opin\u00adion or per\u00adspec\u00adtive that was dif\u00adfer\u00adent from your own. How did you find com\u00admon ground?\u2019 It\u2019s known as the dis\u00adagree\u00adment ques\u00adtion, and since the stu\u00addent encamp\u00adments of spring 2024 and the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan right\u2019s attacks on uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties, a grow\u00ading num\u00adber of elite col\u00adleges have added it to their appli\u00adca\u00adtions. Car\u00ado\u00adline Kop\u00adpel\u00adman, a pri\u00advate admis\u00adsions con\u00adsul\u00adtant, has called it the \u2018hot new it girl\u2019 of col\u00adlege essays. There\u2019s no evi\u00addence that civil\u00adi\u00adty mania will improve cam\u00adpus dis\u00adcourse, but it seems poised to widen the inequal\u00adi\u00adties that already plague hyper\u00ads\u00ade\u00adlec\u00adtive col\u00adlege admis\u00adsions. The trou\u00adble is that the dis\u00adagree\u00adment ques\u00adtion \u2014 like much of the appli\u00adca\u00adtion process \u2014 isn\u2019t built for hon\u00adesty.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/nobody-has-a-personality-anymore-culture-internet-society\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/nobody-has-a-personality-anymore-culture-internet-society\">Nobody Has a Per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty Any\u00admore<\/a> (Freya India, The Free Press): \u201cToday, every per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty trait is seen as a prob\u00adlem to be solved. Any\u00adthing too human\u2014every habit, every eccen\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty, every feel\u00ading that\u2019s too strong\u2014has to be labeled and explained. Ther\u00ada\u00adpy-speak has tak\u00aden over our lan\u00adguage. It is ruin\u00ading how we talk about romance and rela\u00adtion\u00adships, nar\u00adrow\u00ading how we think about hurt and suf\u00adfer\u00ading, and now, we are los\u00ading the words for who we are. Nobody has a per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty any\u00admore.\u2026 This is part of a deep\u00ader instinct in mod\u00adern life to explain everything\u2014psychologically, sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, evo\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adar\u00adi\u00adly. Every\u00adthing about us is caused, cat\u00ade\u00adgo\u00adrized, and can be cor\u00adrect\u00aded. We talk in the\u00ado\u00adries, frame\u00adworks, sys\u00adtems, struc\u00adtures, dri\u00adves, moti\u00adva\u00adtions, and mech\u00ada\u00adnisms. But in exchange for expla\u00adna\u00adtion, we lost mys\u00adtery, romance, and late\u00adly, our\u00adselves.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/huckabee-threatens-to-declare-israel-not-welcoming-christians-as-visa-row-blows-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Huck\u00adabee threat\u00adens to declare Israel does not wel\u00adcome Chris\u00adtians, as visa row blows open<\/a> (Lazar Berman, Times of Israel): \u201cGiv\u00aden Huckabee\u2019s long\u00adstand\u00ading sup\u00adport for Israel and close ties with the cur\u00adrent gov\u00adern\u00adment in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, the rhetoric in his let\u00adter rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00aded a shock\u00ading\u00adly quick dete\u00adri\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtion. But the issue at hand \u2014 the abil\u00adi\u00adty of Chris\u00adt\u00adian groups to tour Israel \u2014 is close to Huckabee\u2019s heart, giv\u00aden that he has led count\u00adless such trips as an evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal pas\u00adtor over the past half a cen\u00adtu\u00adry.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded to me by a stu\u00addent. Quite inter\u00adest\u00ading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2025\/07\/16\/palliative-care-and-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My health and my pol\u00adi\u00adtics walk into a doctor\u2019s office\u2026<\/a> (Kim Fell\u00adner, New York Times): \u201cThe vision of a diverse, equi\u00adtable and inclu\u00adsive democ\u00adra\u00adcy that seems the best of Amer\u00adi\u00adca to me and my com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty is locked in an exis\u00adten\u00adtial bat\u00adtle with a MAGA counter-vision that ele\u00advates White\u00adness and Chris\u00adt\u00adian nation\u00adal\u00adism, and that seems to be col\u00ado\u00adniz\u00ading insti\u00adtu\u00adtions and cul\u00adture at warp speed. I did not antic\u00adi\u00adpate, how\u00adev\u00ader, that the per\u00adson\u00adal and the polit\u00adi\u00adcal would col\u00adlide in my doctor\u2019s office.\u2026 Over a series of writ\u00adten and in-per\u00adson con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions, we have been shar\u00ading some of the tenets of our respec\u00adtive faiths and the impli\u00adca\u00adtions for how we nav\u00adi\u00adgate the world. She and I have sharply diver\u00adgent views about when life begins and what hap\u00adpens after we die. She believes that the only true sal\u00adva\u00adtion lies in accept\u00ading Jesus as one\u2019s sav\u00adior.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persuasion.community\/p\/a-stark-reminder-that-sex-differences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Stark Reminder That Sex Dif\u00adfer\u00adences Mat\u00adter in Elite Sport<\/a> (James Smoli\u00adga, Per\u00adsua\u00adsion): \u201cThe goal was for Kipye\u00adgon to become the first woman ever to run a sub\u20114 minute mile. Nike set her up with the very best con\u00addi\u00adtions that any ath\u00adlete could ever expect. Kipye\u00adgon ran a mile in 4:06\u2014a remark\u00adable per\u00adfor\u00admance by any mea\u00adsure, and a per\u00adson\u00adal best, but well short of the sub\u20114 minute goal. While Kipye\u00adgon wasn\u2019t direct\u00adly rac\u00ading her pac\u00aders, they were there to pull her to a time that hun\u00addreds of male ath\u00adletes have already achieved. Rather than charg\u00ading down the final straight\u00adaway alone, leav\u00ading the best women in her wake, as she so often does, we saw Kipye\u00adgon strain\u00ading to hang on behind a group of male run\u00adners who weren\u2019t even near their lim\u00adit, as they turned around to cheer her on. This race mat\u00adters because it offered some\u00adthing exceed\u00ading\u00adly rare: an hon\u00adest, direct com\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adson of male and female per\u00adfor\u00admance at the high\u00adest lev\u00adel.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/stanford-hamas-lab-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Israeli Researcher Says Stan\u00adford Shunned and Sab\u00ado\u00adtaged Him After Hamas Attack<\/a> (Maya Sulkin, The Free Press): \u201c[For\u00admer IDF offi\u00adcer] Laps alleges that the research assis\u00adtant in the Dan\u00adny Chou Lab told Laps dur\u00ading their first inter\u00adac\u00adtion on his first day nev\u00ader to speak to her. She alleged\u00adly delayed his orders for lab equip\u00adment, made him sit else\u00adwhere at lunch, and reas\u00adsigned her cus\u00adto\u00addi\u00adal duties to him. Col\u00adleagues fol\u00adlowed her lead, ostra\u00adciz\u00ading him from the lab com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty, the suit claims. The most explo\u00adsive alle\u00adga\u00adtion is that the same research assis\u00adtant, Ter\u00adra Lin, tam\u00adpered with Laps\u2019s research.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The law\u00adsuit has not been adju\u00addi\u00adcat\u00aded, and like\u00adly some claims will be sub\u00adstan\u00adti\u00adat\u00aded and oth\u00aders not. Shar\u00ading because of the Stan\u00adford con\u00adnec\u00adtion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The legal com\u00adplaint is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/brandeiscenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Stanford-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/brandeiscenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Stanford-Complaint.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2025\/07\/what-youtube-cant-teach-students-about-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What YouTube Can\u2019t Teach Stu\u00addents About Jesus<\/a> (Dylan Muss\u00ader, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201c\u2018Who (or what) has shaped your faith the most?\u2019 As a cam\u00adpus min\u00adis\u00adter, I have asked this ques\u00adtion to many col\u00adlege stu\u00addents over the years. Late\u00adly, I have noticed a shift in their answers.&nbsp; This past fall, I sat across from Luke\u2014a fresh\u00adman at Van\u00adder\u00adbilt Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty. We were chat\u00adting over tacos when I posed the ques\u00adtion. I watched the gears spin in his head. <em>Would it be a church from back home? A great book?<\/em> <em>An old\u00ader men\u00adtor who dis\u00adci\u00adpled him? Maybe his par\u00adents? <\/em>He leaned back. \u2018Youtube.\u2019 I stared blankly, try\u00ading my best not to show my sur\u00adprise.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author leads the Nav\u00adi\u00adga\u00adtors at Van\u00adder\u00adbilt.<\/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:\/\/slate.com\/life\/2025\/07\/cooked-sprite-hot-soda-secret-recipe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Joy of Cook\u00ading Your Sprite<\/a> (Jen\u00e9e Desmond-Har\u00adris, Slate): \u201cAfter a day walk\u00ading around the dusty grounds, rid\u00ading a giant swing, and dress\u00ading up for old-timey pho\u00adtos, we made it back to the car exhaust\u00aded and thirsty. And in the back seat (I don\u2019t know if it had been pur\u00adchased as part of post-out\u00ading lunch or was just rolling around back there) was a six-pack of Sprite that had been, well, cook\u00ading all day. We each cracked one open, and that\u2019s when I real\u00adized some\u00adthing impor\u00adtant was hap\u00adpen\u00ading. It was so good! The soda was hot but some\u00adhow still refresh\u00ading. The sweet\u00adness was soft\u00adened and the bub\u00adbles felt big\u00adger and more luxurious\u2014not like the sharp, sneeze-trig\u00adger\u00ading ones you get when it\u2019s cold. We locked eyes and smiled mis\u00adchie\u00advous\u00adly. It felt rebel\u00adlious (look, we were very shel\u00adtered kids) and wild\u00adly inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive. \u2018Cooked Sprite\u2019 was born.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/10\/style\/aura-farming-indonesia-boat-kid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Is \u2018Aura Farm\u00ading\u2019? This Tween Will Show You.<\/a> (Ben\u00adjamin Hoff\u00adman, New York Times): \u201cOn Tues\u00adday, the gov\u00adern\u00adment in Riau, cit\u00ading the impact of the video and the fact that he had been \u2018inspir\u00ading local kids to embrace and pre\u00adserve their tra\u00addi\u00adtions,\u2019 named Dika as a tourism ambas\u00adsador for the province, and its gov\u00ader\u00adnor, Abdul Wahid, award\u00aded him a schol\u00adar\u00adship for 20 mil\u00adlion rupi\u00adah (around $1,200) for his edu\u00adca\u00adtion. Dika also per\u00adformed a ren\u00addi\u00adtion of his dance along with Gov\u00ader\u00adnor Wahid and oth\u00ader offi\u00adcials.\u201d<\/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\/07\/18\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-513-elite-colleges-pathologizing-personality-and-the-fastest-woman-in-the-world\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 513: elite col\u00adleges, pathol\u00ado\u00adgiz\u00ading per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty, and the fastest woman in the world\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":[259,240,195,148,300,183,202,135,247],"class_list":["post-7741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-antisemitism","tag-elite-colleges","tag-gender","tag-israel","tag-medicine","tag-psychology","tag-sports","tag-stanford","tag-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-20R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741","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=7741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7743,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741\/revisions\/7743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}