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

I Want to Be a Consumer

Mark T. Mitchell - April 26, 2009

A bit of doggerel from Punch Magazine (25 April 1934). I Want to Be a Consumer “And what do you mean to be?” The kind old Bishop...

Home-Making for Home-Coming

Mark T. Mitchell - April 21, 2009

RINGOES, NJ. You’ve seen the commercials.A middle-aged couple drops their son off at college. As they drive away, nest now empty, they feign sorrow....

Peggy Noonan on the End of Affluence

Mark T. Mitchell - April 15, 2009

Peggy Noonan has a piece in the WSJ titled "Goodby Bland Affluence." Seems even NYC is slowing down and, for the first time in its...

The Dismal Science vs. Community

Mark T. Mitchell - April 13, 2009

RINGOES, NJ. In 1944 two very different but related books were published. The first was F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. In a...

Homesteading with Mother Earth

Mark T. Mitchell - April 10, 2009

USAToday has a piece on folks who are simplifying their lives as a response to the economic troubles here. For those interested in some concrete...

The Ad-Man Cometh (for your Children)

Mark T. Mitchell - April 7, 2009

RINGOES, NJ. March Madness is finally over. And for the first time in years, I actively participated in the madness. For most of our...

Local Currencies Strengthen Local Communities

Mark T. Mitchell - April 2, 2009

USA Today has a piece on local currencies here. Excerpt: "A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money. "Borrowing from a Depression-era...

Tocqueville’s Diagnosis

Mark T. Mitchell - March 31, 2009

RINGOES, NJ As brilliant minds, armed with apparently endless supplies of money, thrash about Washington desperately attempting to fix what they have broken, it...

The Servile State Comes to America

Mark T. Mitchell - March 27, 2009

The Rediscovery of Agriculture?

Mark T. Mitchell - March 25, 2009

RINGOES, NJ. Recently, a friend and I visited Polyface Farm outside Staunton, Virginia. Polyface is owned and operated by Joel Salatin, whose parents...

Farming: Practical Advice

Mark T. Mitchell - March 20, 2009

For anyone interested in practical advice about farming, check out the small farmer's journal The journal comes highly recommended by two of our own: Allan...

White House Garden

Mark T. Mitchell - March 18, 2009

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_garden The White House is getting a garden. Will this inspire millions to do the same? Will Obama pull his own weeds? Can a First...