{"id":7790,"date":"2025-09-12T16:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7790"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:30:26","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-521","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/09\/12\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-521","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 521: mostly Charlie Kirk"},"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<\/p><p>You\u2019ve heard of TGIF? This is TGFI: Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 lot of arti\u00adcles about the mur\u00adder of Char\u00adlie Kirk. Even peo\u00adple who bare\u00adly knew who Kirk was seem to have been deeply moved by his assas\u00adsi\u00adna\u00adtion.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/news\/student-acceptance-violence-response-speech-hits-record-high\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stu\u00addent accep\u00adtance of vio\u00adlence in response to speech hits a record high<\/a> (Ryne Weiss &amp; Chapin Lenthall-Cleary, FIRE): \u201cAccord\u00ading to FIRE\u2019s annu\u00adal Col\u00adlege Free Speech Rank\u00adings sur\u00advey, in 2020, the nation\u00adal aver\u00adage showed about 1 in 5 stu\u00addents said it was ever accept\u00adable to use vio\u00adlence to stop a speak\u00ader. That num\u00adber has since risen to a dis\u00adturb\u00ading 1 in 3 stu\u00addents.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalliturgies.net\/p\/how-great-the-chasm-that-lay-between\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Great the Chasm That Lay Between Us<\/a> (Samuel D. James, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cWhere to begin? The mur\u00adder of Char\u00adlie Kirk feels dif\u00adfer\u00adent.\u2026 Char\u00adlie Kirk was not an elect\u00aded offi\u00adcial, but a pri\u00advate cit\u00adi\u00adzen. He was a com\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtor and media per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty. Because of that, this killing feels wider in sym\u00adbol\u00adism. Tonight, a lot of Amer\u00adi\u00adcans feel like some\u00adone died on <em>their<\/em> behalf. And there\u2019s some truth in that.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/11\/opinion\/charlie-kirk-assassination-fear-politics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Char\u00adlie Kirk Was Prac\u00adtic\u00ading Pol\u00adi\u00adtics the Right Way<\/a> (Ezra Klein, New York Times): \u201cYou can dis\u00adlike much of what Kirk believed and the fol\u00adlow\u00ading state\u00adment is still true: Kirk was prac\u00adtic\u00ading pol\u00adi\u00adtics in exact\u00adly the right way. He was show\u00ading up to cam\u00adpus\u00ades and talk\u00ading with any\u00adone who would talk to him. He was one of the era\u2019s most effec\u00adtive prac\u00adti\u00adtion\u00aders of per\u00adsua\u00adsion.\u2026 In the inau\u00adgur\u00adal episode of his pod\u00adcast, Gov. Gavin New\u00adsom of Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia host\u00aded Kirk, admit\u00adting that his son was a huge fan. What a tes\u00adta\u00adment to Kirk\u2019s project.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/12\/us\/politics\/charlie-kirk-voters-politics-violence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">After Kirk Killing, Amer\u00adi\u00adcans Agree on One Thing: Some\u00adthing Is Seri\u00adous\u00adly Wrong<\/a> (Shawn Hubler, Edgar San\u00addoval and Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times): \u201cNo mat\u00adter their pol\u00adi\u00adtics, peo\u00adple said they were deeply unset\u00adtled after the killing of Mr. Kirk\u2026 Mr. Kirk\u2019s death at 31 sym\u00adbol\u00adized for many the col\u00adlapse of what they thought was a basic, com\u00admon-sense, need-not-be-debat\u00aded Amer\u00adi\u00adcan val\u00adue: that peo\u00adple express\u00ading a polit\u00adi\u00adcal opin\u00adion should not be shot for it.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furtherup.net\/p\/je-suis-charlie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Je Suis Char\u00adlie<\/a> (Bethel McGrew, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIt is unique\u00adly, vis\u00adcer\u00adal\u00adly hor\u00adri\u00adfy\u00ading: the polit\u00adi\u00adcal assas\u00adsi\u00adna\u00adtion of a young hus\u00adband and father who held no polit\u00adi\u00adcal office, nor was he cam\u00adpaign\u00ading for one. He was a polit\u00adi\u00adcal fig\u00adure, true, but still a pri\u00advate cit\u00adi\u00adzen. A pri\u00advate cit\u00adi\u00adzen who, to his killer, for the great crime of exist\u00ading while vocal\u00adly mid\u00addle-of-the-road con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive, deserved to die. And not just in the eyes of his killer, as we quick\u00adly learned.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>McGrew is a Chris\u00adt\u00adian essayist\/journalist with a Ph.D. in math and I when I run across her con\u00adtent I usu\u00adal\u00adly find it help\u00adful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/11\/us\/charlie-kirk-martyr-conservative-christians.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Chris\u00adtians Mourn Kirk as a Mar\u00adtyr<\/a> (Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth Dias and Ruth Gra\u00adham, New York Times): \u201c\u2018I\u2019m rack\u00ading my brain try\u00ading to think of anoth\u00ader polit\u00adi\u00adcal fig\u00adure that had a sim\u00adi\u00adlar impact and fol\u00adlow\u00ading who was assas\u00adsi\u00adnat\u00aded, and the only per\u00adson I can think of is Mar\u00adtin Luther King Jr.,\u2019 Mr. Schilling said.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/11\/opinion\/charlie-kirk-assassination-debate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">If We Keep This Up, Char\u00adlie Kirk Will Not Be the Last to Die<\/a> (David French, New York Times): \u201cThat\u2019s one thing I respect\u00aded about Char\u00adlie \u2014 and it\u2019s worth empha\u00adsiz\u00ading because the assas\u00adsin attacked him as he spoke on cam\u00adpus \u2014 he wasn\u2019t afraid of a debate. He was will\u00ading to talk to any\u00adone. And when he was shot in the mid\u00addle of a debate, the assas\u00adsin didn\u2019t just take aim at a pre\u00adcious human being, cre\u00adat\u00aded in the image of God, he took aim at the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan exper\u00adi\u00adment itself.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/hitting-the-jugular-of-liberal-democracy-92c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hit\u00adting The Jugu\u00adlar Of Lib\u00ader\u00adal Democ\u00adra\u00adcy<\/a> (Andrew Sul\u00adli\u00advan, Sub\u00adstack): \u201c\u2026I [do not] think it is wrong to \u2018politi\u00adcize\u2019 his own hor\u00adri\u00adble assas\u00adsi\u00adna\u00adtion. Because it was an express\u00adly polit\u00adi\u00adcal act. It was polit\u00adi\u00adcal because it struck Kirk in the core act of lib\u00ader\u00adal democ\u00adra\u00adcy: debat\u00ading his oppo\u00adnents. We don\u2019t know the pre\u00adcise motive behind the mur\u00adder right now, but that\u2019s irrel\u00ade\u00advant. This was aimed lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly and fig\u00adu\u00adra\u00adtive\u00adly at the jugu\u00adlar of a free soci\u00adety.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One of our mil\u00adi\u00adtary alum\u00adni liked the \u201chon\u00adesty tax\u201d arti\u00adcle I shared last week and sent me this mono\u00adgraph about the same dynam\u00adic in the mil\u00adi\u00adtary: <a href=\"https:\/\/press.armywarcollege.edu\/monographs\/466\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lying to Our\u00adselves: Dis\u00adhon\u00adesty in the Army Pro\u00adfes\u00adsion<\/a> (Leonard Wong &amp; Stephen J. Ger\u00adras, US Army War Col\u00adlege): \u201cFor exam\u00adple, one colonel described how his brigade com\u00adman\u00adder need\u00aded to turn in his sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion report on Fri\u00adday, forc\u00ading the bat\u00adtal\u00adions to do theirs on Thurs\u00adday, and there\u00adfore the com\u00adpa\u00adnies sub\u00admit\u00adted their data on Wednesday\u2014necessitating the com\u00adpa\u00adnies to describe events that had not even occurred yet. The end result was that, while the com\u00adpa\u00adnies gave it their best shot, every\u00adone includ\u00ading the bat\u00adtal\u00adion com\u00adman\u00adder knew that the com\u00adpa\u00adny reports were not accu\u00adrate.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This fact was strik\u00ading: \u201cIn the rush by high\u00ader head\u00adquar\u00adters to incor\u00adpo\u00adrate every good idea into train\u00ading, the total num\u00adber of train\u00ading days required by all manda\u00adto\u00adry train\u00ading direc\u00adtives lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly exceeds the num\u00adber of train\u00ading days avail\u00adable to com\u00adpa\u00adny com\u00adman\u00adders. Com\u00adpa\u00adny com\u00adman\u00adders some\u00adhow have to fit 297 days of manda\u00adto\u00adry require\u00adments into 256 avail\u00adable train\u00ading days.\u201d It is lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly impos\u00adsi\u00adble for them to ful\u00adfill the require\u00adments they have to affirm they ful\u00adfilled!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/the-serial-killers-apologist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Ser\u00adi\u00adal Killer\u2019s Apol\u00ado\u00adgist<\/a> (Zac Bis\u00adson\u00adnette, The Free Press): \u201cHe then led police to the bod\u00adies of young men he and Cor\u00adll had mur\u00addered with the help of anoth\u00ader accom\u00adplice, David Brooks. In all, 27 men and boys had been killed; Hen\u00adley was tried and con\u00advict\u00aded on six counts of mur\u00adder with mal\u00adice.\u2026 Ramsland\u2019s treat\u00adment of Hen\u00adley rep\u00adre\u00adsents ther\u00ada\u00adpy cul\u00adture tak\u00aden to its log\u00adi\u00adcal extreme. There is no vil\u00adlain so odi\u00adous that he can\u2019t be recast through the lens of a trau\u00adma framework\u2014and a sym\u00adpa\u00adthet\u00adic expla\u00adna\u00adtion can always be found through exten\u00adsive talk\u00ading.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2025\/09\/10\/life-on-mars-rocks-mudstones-rover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NASA dis\u00adcov\u00aders \u2018clear\u00adest sign of life that we\u2019ve ever found on Mars\u2019<\/a> (Kasha Patel, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cBut the col\u00ador\u00adful speck\u00adles on the rocks pose an even more allur\u00ading mys\u00adtery. These fea\u00adtures are two well-known min\u00ader\u00adals made of iron, phos\u00adpho\u00adrus and sul\u00adfur. One called vivian\u00adite \u2014 also some\u00adtimes referred to as corpse crys\u00adtals \u2014 forms dur\u00ading the decay of organ\u00adic mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal and is blue-green. The oth\u00ader, called greig\u00adite, shows up as a dull brown. But when these two min\u00ader\u00adals are found togeth\u00ader in sed\u00adi\u00adments on Earth, Hurowitz said, it\u2019s usu\u00adal\u00adly a result of micro\u00adbial metab\u00ado\u00adlisms.\u2026 The authors acknowl\u00adedge that these min\u00ader\u00adals could have formed with\u00adout microbes \u2014 with the involve\u00adment of heat, for instance. But the new study deter\u00admined the Mar\u00adt\u00adian rocks don\u2019t appear to have been heat\u00aded.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plough.com\/en\/topics\/faith\/supernatural\/strange-gifts-of-the-spirit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Strange Gifts of the Spir\u00adit<\/a> (Sarah Kil\u00adlam Cros\u00adby, Plough): \u201cIre\u00adnaeus, the great sec\u00adond-cen\u00adtu\u00adry bish\u00adop of Lyons, wrote that true dis\u00adci\u00adples of Christ received and exer\u00adcised spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal gifts grant\u00aded them through the grace of God. \u2018Some real\u00adly and tru\u00adly dri\u00adve out demons, \u2026 some have fore\u00adknowl\u00adedge of the future, and visions and prophet\u00adic speech, and oth\u00aders lay their hands on the sick and make them well, and as we said, even the dead have been raised and have remained with us for many years.\u2019 Ori\u00adgen like\u00adwise claimed that mirac\u00adu\u00adlous signs and won\u00adders were still per\u00adformed, though with greater scarci\u00adty, in the church\u00ades of his day, and Augustine\u2019s <em>City of God<\/em> recounts sev\u00ader\u00adal mir\u00ada\u00adcles, includ\u00ading heal\u00adings and exor\u00adcisms. For these and oth\u00ader patris\u00adtic the\u00adolo\u00adgians, it was clear that super\u00adnat\u00adur\u00adal gifts of the Spir\u00adit were still present in the life of the church. These texts show that heal\u00adings, prophe\u00adcies, and oth\u00ader phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adna were viewed as part of the pat\u00adtern which had been ini\u00adti\u00adat\u00aded at Pen\u00adte\u00adcost.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/experiences-shape-beliefs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Expe\u00adri\u00adences Shape Beliefs. They Shouldn\u2019t Deter\u00admine Them.<\/a> (Samuel James, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cWhen some\u00adone talks about why they\u2019ve changed their con\u00advic\u00adtions about some\u00adthing, they increas\u00ading\u00adly refer to neg\u00ada\u00adtive expe\u00adri\u00adences more often than per\u00adsua\u00adsive argu\u00adments.\u2026 It\u2019s not so much about los\u00ading faith in a creed, but los\u00ading faith in <em>some\u00adbody<\/em>. There\u2019s a grow\u00ading ten\u00adden\u00adcy to then iden\u00adti\u00adfy the per\u00adson in whom we have lost faith as the sum total of their beliefs, and change our think\u00ading accord\u00ading\u00adly. \u2018Because X per\u00adson did Y bad thing, this must mean X per\u00adson was wrong about Z idea.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/09\/08\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-war-drones-tanks-military.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tanks Were Just Tanks, Until Drones Made Them Change<\/a> (Mar\u00adco Her\u00adnan\u00addez &amp; Thomas Gib\u00adbons-Neff, New York Times): \u201c\u2026Russia\u2019s and Ukraine\u2019s Sovi\u00adet-era tanks rum\u00adble across the bat\u00adtle\u00adfield cov\u00adered in anti-drone nets and spikes, dan\u00adgling chains and unwieldy cages. The exte\u00adri\u00ador trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtions of these hulk\u00ading vehi\u00adcles are a tes\u00adta\u00adment to how quick\u00adly drones have changed the war in Ukraine in just over three years.\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.fox4now.com\/cape-coral\/not-all-heroes-wear-capes-man-in-batman-pjs-helps-cape-coral-police-make-arrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES: Man in Bat\u00adman PJs helps Cape Coral police make arrest<\/a> (Austin Schar\u00adgorod\u00ads\u00adki, Fox News): \u201cIt wasn\u2019t Gotham City, but on a dark night in Cape Coral, police say a man in Bat\u00adman paja\u00admas took down a bur\u00adglar in his neighbor\u2019s garage.\u2026 \u2018I\u2019m real\u00adly glad I had my Bat\u00adman paja\u00admas on because that gave me the extra con\u00adfi\u00addence I need\u00aded,\u2019 he said.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Brought to my atten\u00adtion by an alum\u00adnus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/nonsequitur\/2025\/09\/10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Con\u00adgress\u00admen<\/a> (Non Sequitur)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/suffering-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Suf\u00adfer\u00ading<\/a> (SMBC): inac\u00adcu\u00adrate but amus\u00ading<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/dad-teaches-son-importance-of-doing-your-own-oil-changes-so-it-will-take-longer-and-cost-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dad Teach\u00ades Son Impor\u00adtance Of Doing Your Own Oil Changes So It Will Take Longer And Cost More<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/06\/fashion\/weddings\/wedding-matchmaking-dating-single-friends.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The D.I.Y. Dat\u00ading Scene Pow\u00adered by Your Mar\u00adried Friends<\/a> (Sara Radin, New York Times): \u201cWhen Melis\u00adsa Clark and Dominic Morales tied the knot in Sayuli\u00adta, Mex\u00adi\u00adco, in the spring of 2025, their cel\u00ade\u00adbra\u00adtion was about more than just their own love sto\u00adry. They hoped to kin\u00addle a few oth\u00aders as well. To help their sin\u00adgle guests con\u00adnect, the cou\u00adple cre\u00adat\u00aded what they called a \u2018sin\u00adgles face sheet\u2019 \u2014 a real-life Tin\u00adder board, com\u00adplete with LinkedIn pho\u00adtos, Insta\u00adgram snap\u00adshots, and short bios.\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>You\u2019ve heard of TGIF? This is TGFI: Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading 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. 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