Mark Tooley

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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Stanley Hauerwas & Post-Liberalism

Stanley Hauerwas, the famed Anabaptist pacifist theologian, was postliberal long before it was cool. Today, his influence has receded, and for good reason.

Whiggish Churchill & Tucker Carlson etc

Seeing Churchill as icon of Anglo/American liberal order, some postliberals including Christians want to demote if not dethrone him

Reagan the Wizard

The Wizard is inexplicable, which was his power. And the whole world was a beneficiary.

America’s Endless Horizons

America is an unstoppable beast, in the best sense. 

Germany’s 75 Years of Providential Good Choices

Germany chose malevolence, learned, then chose life.

Of Such the World Was Not Worthy

Amid great evils, there are always the brave and the true who will resist no matter the cost.   

Firebrand, Freedom & Providence

Providence will prevail, but the path is filled with martyrs.

Political Parties, Hubris & Providence

Electoral defeat, in a healthy society, is not an existential crisis, but a providential time for recalibration

Two Ladies, Two National Spirits

Great nations often have two great national spirits, two internal voices between which they must choose in providential times.

Protestantism as Father of “Liberalism”

Protestants cannot take over society but can infuse liberalism, with “moral meaning.”