Joshua Mitchell

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. youtube.com/watch?v=ubz4Wk…

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." youtu.be/cs0bKibAqU8?si…

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. youtu.be/rVO_3FTqJbY?si…

November 18, 2025. Lecture at SCETL (ASU) about the three contemporary threats to democracy in America, relying on the thinking of Alexis de Tocqueville. youtube.com/watch?v=B2Ed2y…

@AGDugin Yet another in a long line of critics who underestimates the resilience of the American theological wager. See americanreformer.org/2026/03/whithe…

The main source of the decisive decline of the West is the Calvinism. The Anglican and Lutheran Churches as well as mystical tendency from Bohme to Quakers and anabaptists were somehow in the realm of Christianity (more or less). The real horror starts with Calvin.

March 31, 2026. Ross Doughat, "Can Christianity Be Restored to the Center of American Life?" nytimes.com/2026/03/31/opi…

November 26, 2025. Distinctive Christianity Podcast. A far-ranging conversation about Plato, Christianity, and the current moment. redcircle.com/shows/3beb896e… #redcircle

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 youtu.be/Nfd80n_8jOg?si…

October 28, 2025. A brief essay on the theological significance of Charlie Kirk's assassination. Charlie Kirk, Scapegoat americanmind.org/salvo/charlie-…

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? americanreformer.org/2026/03/whithe…

May 6, 2025. An essay on the fate of political theory. Red Pill, Blue Pill open.substack.com/pub/clunyjourn…

April 8, 2021. Lecture about identity politics at Old Parkland Conference Center, Dallas TX American Awakening: Identity Politics, An Affliction of American Culture youtu.be/1a9BwC7D7mY?si…