Joshua Mitchell

Joshua Mitchell is professor of political theory at Georgetown University in Washington, DC

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June 29, 2026. A brief symposium about the meaning of the Declaration of Independence at 250, in Modern Age, in which I have a short piece.

https://t.co/PcJo2kAAXf

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May 29, 2026. Concepts with Shawn Whatley podcast. A broad conversation about the Christian roots of identity politics and why Conservatives are ill-equipped to deal with it going forward.

https://t.co/LGfSA8Go9u

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March 23, 2021. "Idols, Identity Politics, and the Lies of our Age." Symposium at Patrick Henry College. Well into the decade of what I think is best described as the identity politics reign of terror, here is another attempt to grasp the theological dimensions of our current crisis.

https://t.co/4JNXgLl7Hs

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November 30, 2013. "Man, the Lonely Animal." A brief extract from my book, TOCQUEVILLE IN ARABIA, about the loneliness of my students on the U.S. and in the Middle East, written a decade before it became a fashionable subject of conversation.

https://t.co/nRPngneV9D

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May 25, 2026. A tribute to Bob Woodson, who died last week at age 89, and who was one of the few men in America who understood how to heal her wounds.

https://t.co/21KTXerAvE

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May 15, 2026. A CrossPolitic podcast, in which the American covenantal civilization is set against a civilization based on Aristotelian subsidiarity, AND which argues that identity politics can ONLY be vanquished by a return to our covenantal civilization, not by turning to Aristotle and Aquinas

https://t.co/I6uq4fWDXZ

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December 6, 2025. A debate, in Doha, Qatar, between Michael Eric Dyson, Khaled A. Beydoun, and me about "social justice," which in my view is just another name for the incomplete religion of identity politics that has enchanted the left now for more than a dozen years.

https://t.co/37hrv7rrdC

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April 27, 2026. "In this wide-ranging conversation, Georgetown Professor Joshua Mitchell explains why America remains a deeply Hebraic, covenantal nation — and why the current culture war is best understood as a distorted continuation of the Reformation.

"From the Plato-Aristotle divide to Luther’s turn to history, from Tocqueville’s warnings to the spiritual economy of stain and redemption, Mitchell offers a profound diagnosis of where American Christianity stands today. Watch until the end for a hopeful (yet challenging) path forward."

https://t.co/hpEw3IsA6O

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August 18, 2017. This First Things lecture draws on Plato and Alexis de Tocqueville to examine democracy's challenges. In it, I critique globalism and identity politics for fostering social isolation and "disembodied" citizens. I also analyze the internal incoherence of both major U.S. political parties in addressing the post-1989 world. I highlight the need for mediating institutions like family, religion, and local associations to counter democracy's risks of loneliness, manic public opinion, and soul-level decline into tyranny.

https://t.co/pDLEFqrZjB

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November 18, 2025. Lecture at SCETL (ASU) about the three contemporary threats to democracy in America, relying on the thinking of Alexis de Tocqueville.

https://t.co/WivVY43VCZ

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@AGDugin Yet another in a long line of critics who underestimates the resilience of the American theological wager. See https://t.co/2pkpBBVyb5

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March 31, 2026. Ross Doughat, "Can Christianity Be Restored to the Center of American Life?"
https://t.co/YR7bDC6mS5

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November 26, 2025. Distinctive Christianity Podcast. A far-ranging conversation about Plato, Christianity, and the current moment.

https://t.co/wXmuFIf5jH #redcircle

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March 8, 2022. As identity politics reached a crescendo in America, a lecture about how "the politics of innocent victimhood" was on the verge of transforming our country for the worse.

2022 First Things Lecture - Dr Joshua Mitchell https://t.co/HR49WY8GKy

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October 28, 2025. A brief essay on the theological significance of Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Charlie Kirk, Scapegoat https://t.co/fuZyshuaU0

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March 27, 2026. An essay that offers a big picture view of Reformation America, and its significance within the whole of Christianity.

Whither the Reformation in America? https://t.co/2pkpBBVyb5

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May 6, 2025. An essay on the fate of political theory.

Red Pill, Blue Pill https://t.co/Mksd9XUwtj

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April 8, 2021. Lecture about identity politics at Old Parkland Conference Center, Dallas TX

American Awakening: Identity Politics, An Affliction of American Culture
https://t.co/s3wPE1WZaT