Mark T. Mitchell

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

The Homeless Modern

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The disposition that characterizes the modern mind--a disposition that favors as its ideal a skeptical “view from nowhere,”--serves to undermine the very elements that make community possible.

The Financial Crisis and the Scientific Mindset

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Paul J. Cella III argues that the financial crisis was the result of a modern mindset committed to rationalism and abstraction.

Where Have all the Slaughterhouses Gone?

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USDA regulations strangle the local meat market.

Phillip Blond at Georgetown–Streaming Audio

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In case you weren't able to be there.

Census 2010

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To fill it out or not. That is the question.

Miss Coach

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A woman head coach of a boy's high school football team robs the players of a male role model and diminishes the bonds of male camaraderie.

Truck Farm

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These two intrepid fellows are out to prove that good food can be grown almost anywhere. This creative garden suggests that growing at least...

A Doomsday Cycle

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Increase regulations or remove the safety net?

Colbert on Corporate Personhood

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Does the idea of corporate personhood create a strange new god before which we prostrate ourselves?

Stegall in the News

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The attorney representing four of the Americans who were being held in Haiti on kidnapping charges is FPR's Caleb Stegall.

Tea Party Conspiracy

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Beans, Bibles, and bullets seem to be the watchwords of some members of the Tea Party movement. Are their fears legitimate?

What the World Eats

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A photographic essay depicting a week's worth of food consumed by families in various societies.
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