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Matthew Lee AndersonEducation
Rachel Donaio has recently reviewed the state of the canon wars in light of the twentieth anniversary of Allan Bloom’s explosive Closing of the American Mind. It is, it seems, a balanced piece that raises numerous interesting questions. I have […]
Matthew Lee AndersonScience
A Unified Knowledge: Science and Theology
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
GodBlogCon: I'm "In."
Tex
Due to the importance of unity among the believers in Islam, legitimate authorization of war is imperative. The Islamic conception of the ideal government has one ruler (the deputy, or khalifa) at its head. This was modeled most perfectly in […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Two Changes here at Mere-O
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
The Frontiers of Christian Humour (Updated)
Matthew Lee AndersonFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Under Review: 3:10 to Yuma
TexInternational Politics
Jihad and Justice: The Islamic Context
Matthew Lee Anderson
There’s hope for aspiring authors. Alfred Knopf, who founded and ran Knopf Publishing (now owned by RandomHouse), missed nearly as many gems as he published: In the summer of 1950, Alfred A. Knopf Inc. turned down the English-language rights to […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsSociety
Still Not Forgotten
Matthew Lee AndersonBlogging
When I first started blogging, I would argue that it was as close to a meritocracy as I have ever seen. “The good stuff,” I argued, “almost always gets picked up and moved to the top of the heap. Good […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
In her book The Future and Its Enemies, Virginia Postrel describes the odd phenomenon where the far political right and the far political left end up sounding very much the same. That phenomenon has never been more clear than in […]