Last night’s election is going to be dissected for a long time to come. Gay marriage passed at the ballot box for the first time, marijuana was legalized in two states, and Republicans generally got it handed to them. Mitt Romney gave some brief, but very classy remarks in defeat, while President Obama managed to remind us of one major reason why he’s a political force to begin with. His speech was one of the best I’ve heard from him, and maybe one of the most eloquent in recent memory, period.
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Matthew Lee Anderson
Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.