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On the Premature Judgment of Sarah Palin

July 6th, 2009 | 3 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

There are few decisions or events in our media saturated era that happen without the requisite context to pass a reasonable judgment.  And judgement–in a non-pejorative sense–is precisely what political punditry offers the political process.  The ability to assess information, to compare competing theories, and to offer a plausible explanation in a persuasive way is an important part of the political order.  

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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.

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Politics