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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Dictators dishonor and corrupt, if not ruin their nations.
Mark TooleyMarch 4, 2024
Of such heroes, like Navalny, Aquino, and Bonhoeffer, it can be said: “The world was not worthy of them.”
Mark TooleyFebruary 20, 2024
Great leaders who advance the cause of humanity are never cynical.
Mark TooleyFebruary 14, 2024
How easy it is to look away from horrors if we ourselves are comfortable.
Mark TooleyJanuary 30, 2024
God has a special providence for America.
Mark TooleyDecember 21, 2023
Kisinger was immune to soaring Yankee optimism.
Mark TooleyDecember 2, 2023
The West must continue to defend itself from other cultures that still glorify empire and tyranny.
Mark TooleyNovember 24, 2023
By their fruits he shall know them.
Mark Tooley & Reinhold NiebuhrNovember 11, 2023
Chile 1970-1990 is a warning to all who are tempted to extremism and political absolutism.
Mark TooleySeptember 23, 2023
Perhaps Meir, who supposedly believed Russia never changes, would also note that Russia never learns.
Mark TooleySeptember 12, 2023