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Joshua Mitchell

Joshua Mitchell is professor of political theory at Georgetown University.  From 2008 to 2010, he was acting chancellor of the American University of Iraq–Sulaimani.  His most recent book is Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in the Democratic Age.
Articles by Joshua Mitchell

The Great Exhaustion: Manned Space Flight and Philosophy

It is not difficult to imagine historians, several centuries from now, wondering how it could be that Americans, without really knowing how to do it, decided to go to the moon in eight short years. “What were they thinking?” these historians might exclaim! Their amazement could take two forms, however, depending on how Americans today,…

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A Renewed Republican Party

“However sudden and momentous be events that have just taken place so swiftly, the author can claim that they have not taken him by surprise.” So wrote Tocqueville in the Author’s Preface to the Twelfth Edition of Democracy in America, on the occasion, in 1848, of the final political repudiation of the effort to restore…

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