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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Helping Israel against Iran?

Christian Realism is the constant expectation of unintended consequences.

Generous America?

Thoughtful foreign aid doesn’t detract from America. If competently administered, it adds to our national honor, majesty, & glory. It demonstrates that our Gospel-soaked nation is generous, decent, & wise.

Ignoring America’s Greatest Victory?

May 8 is the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender to the Allies, but America is hardly commemorating its greatest victory. Why?

America’s Defeat 50 Years Ago

Democracy and America values today in the world seem again at low tide.

America Lost & Alone

Inevitably, America will return to its destiny.

Ukraine, Just War & Success

Current U.S. policy of pressure only on Ukraine makes just peace unlikely

Christian Realism & Ukraine

There should be no equivocation about where America stands.

Mark Tooley Christianity & National Security 2024

We are going to conclude earlier than planned, but I’ll make this offer to you. I could share a little…

Taking Greenland?

America will be recalled as great to the extent it aligned with God’s purposes.

Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan & Providential Statecraft

Carter and Reagan were both providential instruments, their destinies linked to each other and to the nation.