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 Case for Getting Married Young

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Hidden Springs Lane. A couple months before my wife and I were married, a friend ask me "why do you want to get married...

Solidarity Hall Asks Some Questions of George Weigel

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Solidarity Hall is a website interested in formulating new visions for civil society. Their initial project is an attempt to recover communitarian ideas from...

Farming without Dirt (and with fish)

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Here is an article describing a method of producing vegetation and fish in a symbiotic relationship all without dirt. Could this, as the title...

FPR Conference. Save the Date

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We are currently planning the 3rd Annual FPR Conference. This year it will be held on September 21 at Pomona College in Claremont, CA....

W[h]ither the Family Dinner?

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A recent study suggests that individualized and pre-packaged food changes the way families think about mealtime. Could there be a link between the kind of...

Speaking of Creepy Phone Commericals

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Reader Deirdre points out that another phone commercial is at least at troubling as the Sprint Unlimited ad. According to this ad, The Droid...

I Have a Right to be Unlimited

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Hidden Springs Lane, VA. Sprint is running a new ad pushing the merits of its data plan. While it might be a mistake to...

FPR Turns Four

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This week marks the fourth anniversary of Front Porch Republic. I recently looked back through these first four years and was struck by the...

Kids Playing in the Streets

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Here's an intriguing example of how a community is attempting to create space for children to play. Opening the streets to children means closing them...

Double-O-bama: Licensed to Kill

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Conor Friedersdorf suggests an interesting thought experiment: Imagine that President Obama is visited by aliens who give him the power to kill any human being...

Gay Marriage and the Right to Marry

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Hidden Spring Lane. The topic of gay marriage is difficult to avoid these days, even for those who would try. Defending “traditional marriage” is...

Plantinga Wins Rescher Prize

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Perhaps one of the most influential philosophers of of time is Alvin Plantinga. He's just been awarded the prestigious Rescher Prize for his work....
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