Mark T. Mitchell
Radical progressives insist on an array of free goods and services and are showing themselves willing to employ violence and fear to obtain them.
Decouple the language of rights from their theological foundation and rights become mere assertions.
Our own convictions are inevitably strengthened when someone who has long opposed our views experiences a change of heart and joins our side.
Mark T. Mitchell is Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College. He is the author, most recently, of Power and Purity: The Unholy Marriage that Spawned America’s Social Justice Warriors (Regnery). He is one of the principal authors of the Open Letter, Liberty and Justice For All, and is the co-founder and president of Front Porch Republic.