{"id":303,"date":"2020-10-14T18:18:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T18:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/?post_type=furman-event&#038;p=303"},"modified":"2021-01-20T16:57:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T16:57:15","slug":"looking-for-redemption-in-all-the-wrong-places-2021-04-22","status":"publish","type":"furman-event","link":"https:\/\/furman.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_1kC-qaFCQByhDFEE9ERcLA","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Redemption in all the Wrong Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Mitchell is Professor of Political Theory at Georgetown University. He served as Chairman of the Government Department and was Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at the School of Foreign Service in Qatar. During the 2008-10 academic years, Dr. Mitchell took a leave from Georgetown to serve as Acting Chancellor of The American University of Iraq \u2013 Sulaimani. His research interest lies in the relationship between political thought and theology in the West. His books include <em>Not By Reason Alone: Religion, History, And Identity in Early Modern Thought;<\/em>\u00a0<em>The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future;<\/em>\u00a0<em>Plato\u2019s Fable: On the Mortal Condition in Shadowy Times;<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age<\/em>.\u00a0 His latest book is <em>American Awakening:\u00a0 Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time<\/em>.\u00a0 Dr. Mitchell received a Bachelor of General Studies from the University of Michigan, an MA in Sociology from the University of Washington, and an MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago.\u00a0 In addition to teaching at Georgetown University, Dr. Mitchell is an avid conservationist, working to restore his small forest on the Eastern Shore and helping to develop the next generation of solar-electric sailboats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Mitchell is Professor of Political Theory at Georgetown University. He served as Chairman of the Government Department and was Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at the School of Foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":304,"template":"","event-categories":[],"class_list":["post-303","furman-event","type-furman-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"predefined_location":"","location_name":"","location_street_address":"","location_address_locality":"","location_address_region":"","location_postal_code":"","link_text":"Click here to register for the virtual event.","link_css":"","event_start_date":"2021-04-22","event_end_date":"2021-04-22","event_all_day":"","event_start_time":"17:00","event_end_time":"18:30","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/furman-event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"furman-event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}