Mark T. Mitchell

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Mark T. Mitchell is the co-founder of Front Porch Republic. He is the Dean of Academic Affairs at Patrick Henry College and the author of several books including Plutocratic Socialism, Power and Purity, The Limits of Liberalism, The Politics of Gratitude, and Localism in Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto (co-editor).

Recent Essays

Review of “The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry”

Mark T. Mitchell - April 29, 2012

Published recently in The American Conservative. The book contains essays by such writers as Allan Carlson, Patrick Deneen, Jason Peters, Caleb Stegall, Rod Dreher,...

Wendell Berry in D.C. in Two Venues

Mark T. Mitchell - April 24, 2012

On Sunday, Wendell Berry spoke at The National Cathedral. You can see that event here. On Monday, he delivered the Jefferson Lecture for the National...

Gender Matters

Mark T. Mitchell - April 16, 2012

In the spring of 2011, articles began popping up about a couple in Toronto who were refusing to publicly reveal the gender of their...

Mitchell at the National Cathedral

Mark T. Mitchell - March 23, 2012

For those in the D.C. area, I will be speaking at the National Cathedral on Sunday morning at 10:10. The topic is "The State...

Interview with Edward Abbey

Mark T. Mitchell - March 21, 2012

If you were intrigued by the song about Edward Abbey posted by Bill Kauffman, this three part interview with Abbey might be of interest. There...

Patriotism vs. American Exceptionalism

Mark T. Mitchell - March 20, 2012

Do you love America? If so, how much? Do you wear an American flag on your lapel (and look askance on those who don’t)?...

A Scar on the Soul

Mark T. Mitchell - March 5, 2012

This is a powerful piece describing the consequences of some fertility techniques that involve selective reduction of embryos. I will never fully recover from what...

Living Alone

Mark T. Mitchell - February 28, 2012

The New York Times recently ran a précis of a book by Eric Klinenberg, a professor of sociology at New York University and the...

Conservative in America

Mark T. Mitchell - February 6, 2012

Kearneysville, WV. As this election cycle grinds on, and as Washington prepares for CPAC's 2012 event, each Republican candidate continues to claim that he...

Monsanto vs. Family Farmers

Mark T. Mitchell - January 31, 2012

Today in New York City the oral arguments will be heard. You can read more here and here. On January 31, family farmers will take...

Agrarian Hypocrisy and the Evils of Distributism

Mark T. Mitchell - January 6, 2012

One thing that has amused me in these first three years of FPR’s existence is the tendency of some readers to single out one...

A Jeffersonian Kansas

Mark T. Mitchell - January 2, 2012

Here is an article describing how Kansas is leading the way toward a less centralized future. The “revolution in a cornfield” that is happening today...