CHARLES MATTHEW NEWTON WHITE

Qohelet and the Marks of Modernity: Reading Ecclesiastes with Matthew Arnold and Charles Taylor

The biblical book of Ecclesiastes is often claimed as a harbinger of modernity. In this essay, I compare Ecclesiastes with two overlapping constructions of modernity, taken from Matthew Arnold and Charles Taylor, focusing especially on Taylor’s motifs of inwardness, narrativity, meaninglessness, and ordinary life. I suggest that the likeness to modernity in Ecclesiastes is a complex bundle of e...

Matthew O . Hunt African American , Hispanic , and White Beliefs about Black / White Inequality , 1977 - 2004

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Statement Matthew

My primary research area is extremal graph theory, which is the art of finding ranges of parameters for common families of graphs. The most well-known example of this is the Four Color Theorem, which states that every planar graph has chromatic number at most four. My research focuses on the relationship between graphs with large substructures and the number of colors used in coloring the graph...

Matthew Andrews

The last decade has seen many governments attempting to establish a results-oriented (or performance-based) budgeting approach. The emphasis on results or performance in the budget process reflects a new belief that public sector accountability should focus on what government does with the money it spends, rather than just the process of controlling such expenditure (Osborne and Gaebler 1992). ...