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
The Homeless Modern
The disposition that characterizes the modern mind--a disposition that favors as its ideal a skeptical “view from nowhere,”--serves to undermine the very elements that make community possible.
The Financial Crisis and the Scientific Mindset
Paul J. Cella III argues that the financial crisis was the result of a modern mindset committed to rationalism and abstraction.
Miss Coach
A woman head coach of a boy's high school football team robs the players of a male role model and diminishes the bonds of male camaraderie.
Truck Farm
These two intrepid fellows are out to prove that good food can be grown almost anywhere. This creative garden suggests that growing at least some food is not so much…
Colbert on Corporate Personhood
Does the idea of corporate personhood create a strange new god before which we prostrate ourselves?
Stegall in the News
The attorney representing four of the Americans who were being held in Haiti on kidnapping charges is FPR's Caleb Stegall.
Tea Party Conspiracy
Beans, Bibles, and bullets seem to be the watchwords of some members of the Tea Party movement. Are their fears legitimate?
What the World Eats
A photographic essay depicting a week's worth of food consumed by families in various societies.