NSA Lectureship | How Should We Understand "Modernity"? | Josh Mitchell
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Our NSA Lectureship speaker for the 2026/2027 academic year is Dr. Josh Mitchell. This event will be his second address of the year and will focus on modernity.
This Disputatio event is open to the public and will be hosted at the Nuart Theater.
Professor Mitchell's research and teaching interests lie in the relationship between political thought and theology in the West. He has published articles in The Review of Politics, The Journal of Politics, The Journal of Religion, APSR, and Political Theory. His books include Not by Reason Alone: Religion, History, and Identity in Early Modern Political Thought (University of Chicago Press, 1993); The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future (University of Chicago Press, 1995); Plato's Fable: On the Mortal Conditions in Shadowy Times (Princeton University Press, 2006); Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age (University of Chicago Press, 2013); and American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time (Encounter Books, 2020). His next book-length project is entitled, The Gentle Seduction of Tyranny.
Additionally, Professor Mitchell is a Senior Fellow at the Woodson Center in Washington, D.C., working on matters of poverty and resilience. He also works closely with the Tocqueville Foundation in Normandy, France, on transatlantic relations. He writes and speaks extensively about contemporary American politics, and is an avid conservationist, working on the development of the next generation of solar-electric sailboats.
This Disputatio event is open to the public and will be hosted at the Nuart Theater.
Professor Mitchell's research and teaching interests lie in the relationship between political thought and theology in the West. He has published articles in The Review of Politics, The Journal of Politics, The Journal of Religion, APSR, and Political Theory. His books include Not by Reason Alone: Religion, History, and Identity in Early Modern Political Thought (University of Chicago Press, 1993); The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future (University of Chicago Press, 1995); Plato's Fable: On the Mortal Conditions in Shadowy Times (Princeton University Press, 2006); Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age (University of Chicago Press, 2013); and American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time (Encounter Books, 2020). His next book-length project is entitled, The Gentle Seduction of Tyranny.
Additionally, Professor Mitchell is a Senior Fellow at the Woodson Center in Washington, D.C., working on matters of poverty and resilience. He also works closely with the Tocqueville Foundation in Normandy, France, on transatlantic relations. He writes and speaks extensively about contemporary American politics, and is an avid conservationist, working on the development of the next generation of solar-electric sailboats.
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