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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Carter and Reagan were both providential instruments, their destinies linked to each other and to the nation.
Mark TooleyJanuary 16, 2025
Seven demons may yet plague Syria, replacing the demon of Assad.
Mark TooleyDecember 11, 2024
Christians know by faith and experience that no ruler or regime can be entrusted with complete power,
Mark TooleyDecember 6, 2024
Stanley Hauerwas, the famed Anabaptist pacifist theologian, was postliberal long before it was cool. Today, his influence has receded, and for good reason.
Mark TooleyOctober 10, 2024
Seeing Churchill as icon of Anglo/American liberal order, some postliberals including Christians want to demote if not dethrone him
Mark TooleySeptember 24, 2024
The Wizard is inexplicable, which was his power. And the whole world was a beneficiary.
Mark TooleySeptember 3, 2024
America is an unstoppable beast, in the best sense.
Mark TooleyAugust 22, 2024
Germany chose malevolence, learned, then chose life.
Mark TooleyAugust 12, 2024
Amid great evils, there are always the brave and the true who will resist no matter the cost.
Mark TooleyAugust 6, 2024
Providence will prevail, but the path is filled with martyrs.
Mark TooleyJune 15, 2024