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

Alice Springs: A Really Bad Place

Mark T. Mitchell - February 22, 2011

Commitment to a place is an important idea. But in the face of complete social breakdown, is there any place left to salvage?

Cisco’s Hologram

Mark T. Mitchell - February 21, 2011

Cisco is boasting that its new communications technology will change the way we engage others. Indeed, when a hologram of a man in California...

Gentlemen Don’t Wrestle With Ladies

Mark T. Mitchell - February 20, 2011

Kearneysville, WV. Edmund Burke lamented that the age of chivalry has passed. He was, of course, commenting on the attempted eradication of all social...

Obesity Rates Double. Let’s Ban Transfat.

Mark T. Mitchell - February 14, 2011

If we continue reaching for the Twinkie, we shouldn't be surprised to find a government bureaucrat on the other end.

Wendell Berry Risks Arrest in Sit-In

Mark T. Mitchell - February 11, 2011

A group of Kentuckians are protesting mountaintop removal.

Rebel Gardeners Wage Veggie War

Mark T. Mitchell - February 8, 2011

In Buenos Aires guerrilla gardeners scatter seed bombs throughout the city.

Kindle Outsells Paperbacks

Mark T. Mitchell - January 28, 2011

Does the Kindle change the way we read so that what we read is in the process changed?

The End of the World

Mark T. Mitchell - January 25, 2011

The gloom and doom is contagious. We live in a time when a certain respectability seems to attach to those who predict the demise of America, freedom, prosperity, or even the world.

When Bullets Fly

Mark T. Mitchell - January 11, 2011

Peace on Earth is still our prayer.

Memories: Montana Ranch

Mark T. Mitchell - January 2, 2011

It was the kind of responsibility that forces a kid to grow up.

Stegall Accepts Position in Brownback Administration

Mark T. Mitchell - December 30, 2010

Caleb Stegall is set to become general councel for Governor Brownback when he takes office on January 10. Here is the announcement. No doubt his...

Porchers vs. Tea Partiers?

Mark T. Mitchell - December 26, 2010

ISI sponsors an on-line discussion on the limits of liberty.