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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Mark Tooley interviews Eric Patterson about Christian Realism. He’s executive vice president of the Religious Freedom Institute and scholar-at-large with…
Eric Patterson & Mark TooleyAugust 10, 2020
Mark Tooley, Marc LiVecche, and Mark Melton discuss recent Providence content, including LiVecche’s defense of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonAugust 7, 2020
In this video, Mark Tooley speaks with Samuel Goldman, political scientist at George Washington University, about Cultural Marxism, its meaning…
Mark Tooley & Samuel GoldmanJuly 31, 2020
Here’s my talk with Canadian political theologian David Koyzis about his 2019 book Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey &…
Mark Tooley & David KoyzisJuly 28, 2020
Mark Tooley speaks with contributing editors Rebeccah Heinrichs of the Hudson Institute and Joseph Capizzi of Catholic University about the…
Mark Tooley & Rebeccah Heinrichs & Joseph E. CapizziJuly 27, 2020
Next month is the 75th anniversary of the US atomic strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In recognition of the event,…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Wilson MiscambleJuly 23, 2020
Here’s my talk with Brown University economist Glenn Loury, a self-professed “contrarian” on ‘woke’ culture, for which he was recently…
Mark Tooley & Glenn LouryJuly 18, 2020
In this episode of the Marsksism series, editors Mark Tooley, Marc LiVecche, and Mark Melton discuss recent Providence content, including…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonJuly 17, 2020
In this video Daniel Strand discusses what Catholic integralism is, how it is arguably the original Christian political theology, its…
Daniel Strand & Mark TooleyJuly 14, 2020
In this episode of Marksism, Mark Tooley and Marc LiVecche discuss two articles published in Providence this week. First is…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVeccheJuly 10, 2020
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