Mark T. Mitchell serves as the Dean of Academic Affairs at Patrick Henry College, where he also teaches political theory. His previous books include Power and Purity: The Unholy Marriage that Spawned America's Social Justice Warriors; The Limits of Liberalism: Tradition, Individualism, and the Crisis of Freedom; and Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing. Mitchell is cofounder of Front Porch Republic and a former fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.