Mark Mitchell is Professor and chairman of Government at Patrick Henry College and the founding president of the Front Porch Republic. He is the author of The Politics of Gratitude: Scale, Place, and Community in a Global Age (Potomac Books, 2012) and Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing (ISI, 2006).

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Jason Peters is Dorothy J. Parkander Professor in Literature at Augustana College (IL). He is the editor of both Wendell Berry: Life and Work (University Press of Kentucky, 2007) and Land! The Case for an Agrarian Economy, by John Crowe Ransom (a Front Porch Republic book published by the University Press of Notre Dame, 2017).