Mark T. Mitchell is dean of academic affairs and professor of government at Patrick Henry College. He is the author of several books, including Power and Purity: The Unholy Marriage That Spawned America's Social Justice Warriors and The Limits of Liberalism: Tradition, Individualism, and the Crisis of Freedom. He is the co-founder of Front Porch Republic.
"Our republic is faltering. The left pushes us into the dystopia of
identity politics; the right talks incessantly of free markets and
of tradition. Missing in the discussion is the one thing necessary
to stabilize the American commercial republic: private property. No
private property, no middle-class republic. Mark Mitchell has done
us the invaluable service of reintroducing this crucial
consideration into our debates about why America has lost her way
and how to correct her course."
--Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University
"With clarity, grace, and erudition lightly worn, Mitchell takes
aim at the mutually reinforcing pathologies, plutocracy and
socialism, that are undermining the theory and practice of the
middle-class republic. Mitchell demonstrates beyond a reasonable
doubt that only a middle-class, multiracial republic of
civic-minded property owners can save us from the unholy alliance
of plutocratic masters and despotic woke ideologues. Bracing wisdom
for our time."
--Daniel J. Mahoney, Assumption University, emeritus
"Hilaire Belloc called it 'the servile state.' Mark Mitchell offers
the contemporary label 'plutocratic socialism, ' meaning the union
of big government and big business, now amplified by the corrupt
ideology of 'wokism.' With fresh insight and power, Mitchell
rehabilitates the case for building a middle-class democracy
resting on property rights and self-imposed moral limits as the
only way to build a truly free and progressive society. This is
political philosophy at its urgent best."
--Allan Carlson, author of The New Agrarian Mind
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