Joshua Mitchell is an American political theorist and professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He is renowned for his scholarship on Alexis de Tocqueville, religion, politics, democracy, and American political thought, with key publications including 'The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future' (1995) and works on Platonic theology and the Nietzschean question of the sovereign individual. Mitchell engages in public intellectual discourse on liberalism, nationalism, and identity politics. From 2002 to 2005, he served as Chair of Georgetown's Department of Government and held the position of Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. His academic career focuses on political philosophy, and he is affiliated with organizations like the Common Sense Society as a Ph.D.-holding expert in political theory. He is a personal friend of Yoram Hazony, founder of the National Conservatism movement.