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Mark T. Mitchell

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Mark T. Mitchell

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).

Articles by Mark T. Mitchell

Alice Springs: A Really Bad Place

Commitment to a place is an important idea. But in the face of complete social breakdown, is there any place left to salvage?
Mark T. Mitchell
February 22, 2011

Cisco’s Hologram

Cisco is boasting that its new communications technology will change the way we engage others. Indeed, when a hologram of a man in California appears before an audience in India…
Mark T. Mitchell
February 21, 2011

Gentlemen Don’t Wrestle With Ladies

Kearneysville, WV. Edmund Burke lamented that the age of chivalry has passed. He was, of course, commenting on the attempted eradication of all social distinctions by the revolutionaries in France.…
Mark T. Mitchell
February 20, 2011

Obesity Rates Double. Let’s Ban Transfat.

If we continue reaching for the Twinkie, we shouldn't be surprised to find a government bureaucrat on the other end.
Mark T. Mitchell
February 14, 2011

Wendell Berry Risks Arrest in Sit-In

A group of Kentuckians are protesting mountaintop removal.
Mark T. Mitchell
February 11, 2011

Rebel Gardeners Wage Veggie War

In Buenos Aires guerrilla gardeners scatter seed bombs throughout the city.
Mark T. Mitchell
February 8, 2011

Kindle Outsells Paperbacks

Does the Kindle change the way we read so that what we read is in the process changed?
Mark T. Mitchell
January 28, 2011

The End of the World

The gloom and doom is contagious. We live in a time when a certain respectability seems to attach to those who predict the demise of America, freedom, prosperity, or even…
Mark T. Mitchell
January 25, 2011

When Bullets Fly

Peace on Earth is still our prayer.
Mark T. Mitchell
January 11, 2011

Memories: Montana Ranch

It was the kind of responsibility that forces a kid to grow up.
Mark T. Mitchell
January 2, 2011

Stegall Accepts Position in Brownback Administration

Caleb Stegall is set to become general councel for Governor Brownback when he takes office on January 10. Here is the announcement. No doubt his new responsibilities will leave less time…
Mark T. Mitchell
December 30, 2010

Porchers vs. Tea Partiers?

ISI sponsors an on-line discussion on the limits of liberty.
Mark T. Mitchell
December 26, 2010