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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 […]
Matthew Lee AndersonTheology and Practice
Quotable: Michael Bird Edition
Matthew Lee AndersonBook Reviews
The Controversial Case Against Adolescence
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Jihad and Justice: The Islamic Conception
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Apparently, Mike Huckabee has challenged Fred Thompson to a debate. This is a fairly savvy play by Huckabee, as the suggestion seems to be playing pretty well among conservatives that have heard (I would watch!). We know that Huck can […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Five for the RSS Reader
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Earlier this week I introduced two major contributors to Christian just war theory—Augustine and Aquinas. Both of these men agree that a war can be just only when: it is prosecuted by a legitimate authority, is embarked upon for the […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Re-Paganize the West!