Mark Tooley is IRD’s president and editor of IRD’s foreign policy and national security journal, Providence. Prior to joining the IRD in 1994, Mark worked eight years for the Central Intelligence Agency. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and is a native of Arlington, Virginia. He is the author of Taking Back The United Methodist Church, published in 2008; Methodism and Politics in the 20th Century, published in 2012; and The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War, published in 2015.
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A new documentary confronts Leni Riefenstahl’s lifelong denial of complicity in Nazi crimes, revealing how artistic brilliance and moral blindness can coexist—and why forgetting history invites its return.
Mark TooleyNovember 19, 2025
On the second anniversary of the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023, the Provcrew sits down to review Donald Trump’s proposal for ending the war.
Robert Nicholson & Marc LiVecche & Mark TooleyOctober 7, 2025
Can you be a Wesleyan Protestant and a Christian realist? Mark Tooley, an ardent Methodist, and Robert Nicholson discuss this question on the latest Provcast
Robert Nicholson & Mark TooleySeptember 25, 2025
The shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk is a wakeup call for Americans of every stripe. What is happening to our society? How can we fix it—and where do we start?
Stuart Halpern & Wilfred McClay & Mark Tooley & Robert NicholsonSeptember 15, 2025
America could have prevented World War II and, with benevolent wisdom and fraternal strength, can forestall another.
Mark TooleySeptember 2, 2025
Monsters must be dealt with. But there should never be confusion about what they are.
Mark TooleyAugust 27, 2025
The Providence editors discuss the meaning of “Western Civilization” and the legacy of Hiroshima, 80 years later
Marc LiVecche & James Diddams & Mark Tooley & Robert NicholsonJuly 29, 2025
In Cold War literature, Forsyth was a sort of Homer of popular but sophisticated thrillers that demonstrated what made and sustained the West.
Mark TooleyJuly 28, 2025
May we all strive to be a “sincere Lover of Liberty.”
Mark TooleyJuly 11, 2025
“The Founders way of thinking about liberty is much more alert to dangers to liberty in civil society.”
Mark TooleyJuly 3, 2025