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).
Mark T. Mitchell
Articles by Mark T. Mitchell
The Greatest Nation on Earth?
You'll never guess what nation David B. Hart thinks qualifies for this title.
Rev. Jones and the Bonfire of his Vanity
Can modern Islam countenance freedom of religion and expression? This is one of the great questions of our time.
FPR in the Flesh
We hope to connect FPR readers with one another (and with some of our authors) sans pixels or gigabytes.
Do You Know Where Your Eggs Come From?
The options: A decentralized food system or a centralized regulatory system backed by the power of the state.
Medaille’s New Book is Now Available
Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More
The Games They Play
This year the House has come together to support national pollinator week, national dairy month, and national train day.
The End of Courtship
Today, there are no socially prescribed forms of conduct that help guide young men and women in the direction of matrimony.
Hopeful Ads?
Could it be that there is a growing awareness that work--labor that actually results in something of value--and honesty are virtues worth preserving?
Swimming with Sharks
Today many Americans seem smitten with the notion that Washington holds the answer to the many dangers circling in the water.
Steven Pinker: The Internet Keeps us Smart
The New York Times offers this piece by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, who argues that, contrary to the skeptics, wringing our hands about new communications technology is really a bit…
The Internet Makes us Stoopid
New studies show that the cognitive effects of the internet are real and lead to, like, shallow thinking n stuff as well as, wait a sec, there's a butterfly....
Academy of Philosophy and Letters Annual Meeting
Creeping Tyranny: From Constitutionalism to Arbitrary Power
Ingratitude and the Death of Freedom
The hubris of ingratitude is a caustic acid that reduces all in its wake to the fetid condition of servitude, for a spoiled child needs nothing so much as a…
Can Local and Organic Feed the World?
Is organic food merely a luxury item for the self-satisfied and affluent west?
Wii Scouts
The technological fun house that is the modern home makes the great outdoors pale by comparison, if, that is, the expectation is immediate and constant bursts of electronic stimulation.
The Neighborly Arts
The neighborly arts begin at home, extend outward in service to others, and return in the form of gratitude, friendships, and commitments born of practical skills shared and received.