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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Important to Israel’s improved global standing is the ongoing global growth of pro-Israel Evangelicals, numbering in the hundreds of millions, whose influence could affect foreign policy in dozens of nations in the Global South.
Mark TooleyFebruary 12, 2018
The Post with Meryl Streep as publisher Katherine Graham and Tom Hanks as editor Ben Bradlee recalls the 1971 battle…
Mark TooleyFebruary 4, 2018
National Review‘s critique of the new Western film Hostiles, with Christian Bale in the lead role as a cavalry officer,…
Mark TooleyJanuary 28, 2018
Over Christmas, I noticed an obituary for Marcus Raskin, who co-founded the once high profile Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a leftist, not-so-much-noticed-anymore Washington, DC, think-tank that during the Cold War some conservative critics insinuated was in cahoots with Soviet intelligence.
Mark TooleyJanuary 9, 2018
Here are some books I enjoyed over the past year: American Lady: The Life of Susan Mary Alsop By Caroline…
Mark TooleyDecember 31, 2017
The new film Darkest Hour about Churchill’s tense first days as premier movingly portrays how the fortitude of the common…
Mark TooleyDecember 24, 2017
Last eve I attended an enjoyable and informative dinner talk on German politics and transatlantic relations hosted by the Hanns…
Mark TooleyDecember 6, 2017
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s Protestant rectitude informs his sense of America’s dutiful vocation in the world premised on: “Liberty, equality, and human dignity.”
Mark TooleyNovember 29, 2017
Could Robert Mugabe’s calamitous 37-year reign over Zimbabwe have been averted if America recognized United Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa?
Mark TooleyNovember 22, 2017
Last evening I attended a talk at the Israeli Embassy by the great Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who spent 9…
Mark TooleyNovember 9, 2017