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

Pope Francis and Distributism

Mark T. Mitchell - April 3, 2014

In an article at The American Conservative, Arthur W. Hunt III argues that the economic ideas touched on by Pope Francis point in the...

What’s a Localist to Do?

Mark T. Mitchell - March 30, 2014

Hidden Springs Lane. It’s not easy being a localist. Vladimir Putin has taken Crimea and many in the West are afraid that he has...

Of Bees and Moonshine

Mark T. Mitchell - March 27, 2014

Hidden Springs Lane. In the spring of 2012, I started keeping bees. The first thing to notice is that people do not raise bees...

A New Book on Place

Mark T. Mitchell - March 21, 2014

FPR contributor Ted McAllister and Bill McClay have just published a collection of essays titled Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in...

Rod Dreher at Cornerstone University Tonight

Mark T. Mitchell - March 17, 2014

For readers in Western Michigan, Rod Dreher is speaking at Cornerstone University tonight at 7pm in the Matthews Auditorium. He is talking about Community...

A Man’s Home Is His Castle

Mark T. Mitchell - February 3, 2014

Hidden Springs Lane. After too long, I finally got around to watching The Castle (1997), a film recommended by FPR’s Jeff Polet. It’s a...

Real Presences

Mark T. Mitchell - December 30, 2013

Hidden Springs Lane. What’s the deal with Smart Phones? Go to any public gathering and most of the young people (and some of the...

To Quantify the Complexity of a Book

Mark T. Mitchell - October 30, 2013

There's a computer program called Lexile that purports to measure the complexity of books and thereby determine the grade level for which they are...

It’s the Scale, Stupid

Mark T. Mitchell - October 21, 2013

Hidden Springs Lane. The great shutdown charade (less than 50% of workers furloughed) is over for now. However, though our leaders are patting themselves...

New “Safety” Laws Threaten Farmers

Mark T. Mitchell - October 15, 2013

Scale matters and a one-size-fits-all solution is a function of a state that exceeds a proper scale (and ignores a common sense approach to...

Beauty is the Answer

Mark T. Mitchell - October 14, 2013

In ISI's on-going series titled "Conservatism: What's Wrong with it and How Can we Make it Right?" Gerald Russello argues that conservatives have pursued...

Conservatism: What’s Wrong with it and How Can We Make it Right?

Mark T. Mitchell - September 18, 2013

This is my contribution to ISI’s symposium, Conservatism: What’s Wrong with it and How Can We Make it Right? In one sense, there is...