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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In this week’s episode, the editors discuss Matthew Arildsen’s review of Eugene Cho’s “Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk,” Mark…
Mark Tooley & Mark Melton & Marc LiVeccheOctober 30, 2020
In this episode of Marksism, the editors discuss Matthew Yglesias’ One Billion Americans and whether the US needs a larger…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonOctober 23, 2020
Joseph Capizzi of Catholic University in a recent article for Providence analyzed Pope Francis’s new encyclical Fratelli Tutti‘s seeming negative…
Mark Tooley & Joseph E. CapizziOctober 22, 2020
Father Drew Christiansen of Georgetown University is co-editor of A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament….
Mark Tooley & Father Drew ChristiansenOctober 16, 2020
In this week’s episode, the editors discuss some of Providence‘s recent articles—including on Pope Francis’ Fratelli Tutti and his views…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonOctober 16, 2020
British historian Andrews Roberts discusses his magnificent new biography of Winston Churchill, including his political incorrectness by contemporary standards, his…
Mark Tooley & Andrew RobertsOctober 12, 2020
In this week’s episode of Marksism, the editors discuss Mark Tooley’s conversation with Matthew Lee Anderson about justice, Kennedy Lee’s…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonOctober 9, 2020
Baylor University ethics & theology professor Matthew Lee Anderson fascinatingly analyzed Christian concepts of justice in three columns he wrote…
Mark Tooley & Matthew Lee AndersonOctober 7, 2020
In this episode of Marksism, the editors discuss the latest articles, including one about Comrade Duch, who committed atrocities in…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonOctober 2, 2020
This week Mark Tooley, Marc LiVecche, and Mark Melton discuss Providence’s latest content, including Eric Patterson’s article describing eight principles…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonSeptember 25, 2020