Mark T. Mitchell
President
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
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.