Joshua Mitchell is a professor of Government at Georgetown University and a “1776 Unites” partner. His book, American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of our Time, will be published in November.
Protestants have to get their act together so that we can have real pluralism.
Joshua MitchellJuly 28, 2022
IRD/Providence hosted a conversation with the Hanns Seidel Foundation on Cancel Culture.
Mark Tooley & Joshua Mitchell & Rebeccah HeinrichsMay 26, 2021
What sort of moral leadership can emerge when Deconstruction undermines Christianity, as it has?
Joshua MitchellJuly 8, 2020
Is secularism taking hold? Is paganism reemerging? Do we live in a strange time characterized by a return to paganism, though with Christian characteristics? Whichever account is correct has implications for America in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.
Joshua MitchellJune 4, 2020
The nation is not a thing to be invested with religious content. But Christians who support the National Conservativism project recognize that without a home, a nation, there is no room for Christianity at all.
Joshua MitchellSeptember 2, 2019
Identity politics, which seems to be anti-Christian, is in fact a profoundly Protestant heresy, which can only be corrected by a Protestantism that has the audacity to double-down on the claim identity politics makes about the irredeemable sins of man, and yet insist that a divine scapegoat, rather than a merely mortal one, is the resolution to the problem that is man, and the source of his redemption.
Joshua MitchellJuly 19, 2019
Robert Kagan is correct that there are political movements that oppose neoliberal and neoconservative universalism. Authoritarianism is one of them. So, too, is Tocquevillian liberalism.
Joshua MitchellMay 2, 2019
Instead of debating President Trump’s character, we should ask which is more Christian: the experiment with globalism that seems now to have faltered, or the somber return to nations that seeks, modestly yet earnestly, to fortify transnational alliances where they are possible, but reject them where they are not.
Joshua MitchellOctober 29, 2018
Because the U.N. does not have the power of the sword, the U.S. abstention in the recent U.N. vote has not weakened Israel at all; it has weakened the U.N.
Joshua MitchellJanuary 5, 2017
Inboden’s essay in War on the Rocks, “Dark Days: Trump, Christianity, and a Low Dishonest Decade,” has garnered a great deal of attention, but has not, as far as I can tell, been answered in print.
Joshua MitchellSeptember 14, 2016