{"id":5268,"date":"2018-01-25T23:41:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T04:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/01\/25\/5-interesting-stories-3\/"},"modified":"2018-01-25T23:41:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T04:41:04","slug":"5-interesting-stories-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/01\/25\/5-interesting-stories-3\/","title":{"rendered":"5 interesting stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are the five most interesting stories I found today instead of relying on social algorithms<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. “Defeated in Syria, ISIS Fighters Held in Camps Still Pose a Threat”<\/a> (The New York Times<\/em>) –<\/strong> How do you stop the cycle of sprawling American military detention facilities serving as the cradles of the next wave of radicalization?<\/li>\n
  2. “Little Spartas”<\/a> (The Nation<\/em>) –<\/strong> Historian David A. Bell looks at why radicalization happens in some places but not in others: “Radicalization, by contrast, tends to take place in relatively small, contained spaces, where like-minded people can exchange news and ideas, reinforce their shared passions, and magnify their outrage at their opponents.”<\/li>\n
  3. “The Man Who Foresaw the West\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fantasia”<\/a> (The American Conservative<\/em>) –<\/strong> Sociologist Daniel Bell asked, in the words of Gilbert T. Sewall, what if modernism and luxury encourage the breakup of values that make bourgeois comfort and order possible?<\/li>\n
  4. “Captured USS Pueblo displayed as N. Korean propaganda prize”<\/a> (Associated Press) –<\/strong> North Korea is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the capture of a U.S. Navy vessel. “She looks down with satisfaction at a crumpled American flag kept in a glass case on the bridge and waves her hand at copies of confessions hanging on the wall.”<\/li>\n
  5. “Swiss mummy identified as ancestor of Boris Johnson”<\/a> (Associated Press) –<\/strong> The mystery of who a mummy discovered in Switzerland decades ago was has been solved. It is the U.K. foreign minister’s great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, of course.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here are the five most interesting stories I found today instead of relying on social algorithms. [If this is the kind of thing you’d like by email sign up for my newsletter list here.] “Defeated in Syria, ISIS Fighters Held in Camps Still Pose a Threat” (The New York Times) – How do you stop … <\/p>\n

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