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Matthew Lee AndersonDiscussion Leading
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Matthew Lee AndersonSports
The Playoff Picks: Continuing my String of Stupendous Failure?
Keith E. Buhler
There has been much talk lately amongst my philosophy friends about “analytic” vs “continental” philosophy. Analytic is characterized as desiring clarity of terms and exactitude of expression; continental as desiring fuzzy multi-dimensional terms and wholism of expression. They say that […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
The Supremacy of 'Fun'
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
NeoConservatism: Still Alive and Kicking
Matthew Lee Anderson
A few months ago, Russell Moore penned an excellent piece in Touchstone on how Christians should begin to reconsider their position on cremation (a piece, I should point out, that spawned some excellent conversation here at Mere-O). As a practice, […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Sally Bedell Smith published an excerpt of her forthcoming book on the Clinton White House in Vanity Fair. It is an interesting portrayal of how Hillary and Al’s respective campaigns clashed in the 2004 elections. Choice quotes: Bill and Hillary’s […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEducation
Friend and fellow blogger Brant DeBow has tagged me in a meme about books that I have decided to take up. I won’t pass it along, but I thought some of you may be interested. Oh, and since the Bible […]
Tex
Islamic theology and political theory makes use of a distinction comparable to Augustine’s city of God and city of man. In Islam, this is the distinction between dar al-islam and dar al-harb. These two terms mean the house (or territory) […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
Recently, my good friend and teacher Dr. John Mark Reynolds glossed the opening to Plato’s Phaedrus, which opens with the provocative set of questions, “Where did you come from, and where are you going?” Doctor Reynolds points out that we […]
TexInternational Politics
Jihad and Justice: Augustine's Citizens
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
The Malleability of the Body: Is Physicality Given?