Mark T. Mitchell
Mark T. Mitchell serves as the Dean of Academic Affairs and teaches courses in political theory. He is the author of several books including Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class; Power and Purity: The Unholy Marriage That Spawned America’s Social Justice Warriors; The Limits of Liberalism: Tradition, Individualism, and the Crisis of Freedom; The Politics of Gratitude: Scale, Place, and Community in a Global Age; and Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing. He is co-editor of Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto, and The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry. He is the co-founder of the web-zine Front Porch Republic. In 2008-2009, he was a fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.
In his book, The World Beyond Your Head, Matthew Crawford writes that “attention is the one thing that is most one’s own...we choose what to pay attention to, and in a very real sense this determines what is real for us; what is actually present to our consciousness.”