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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Portuguese political thinker Bruno Maçães’ sweeping new book History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America proposes that America…
Mark TooleySeptember 23, 2020
Recently a young man told me he had converted from Methodist to Catholic and was politically now a “Salazarian Integralist.”…
Mark TooleySeptember 21, 2020
In the weekly Marksism series, Mark Tooley, Mark Melton, and Marc LiVecche discuss the latest content from the week. First,…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonSeptember 18, 2020
Samah Norquist as of July 2020 is Chief Advisor for International Religious Freedom at United States Agency for International Development…
Mark TooleySeptember 16, 2020
Elbridge Colby is former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development. And he’s co-founder of the Marathon…
Mark TooleySeptember 13, 2020
In this episode Marksism, editors Mark Tooley, Mark Melton, and Marc LiVecche discuss the September 11th terrorist attacks, retribution in…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonSeptember 11, 2020
In this episode of Marksism, Mark Tooley, Marc LiVecche, and Mark Melton discuss the week’s latest content, including book reviews…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonSeptember 4, 2020
Here Joe Loconte and I reflect on 75 years since WWII ended with the September 2, 1945 Tokyo Bay surrender…
Joseph Loconte & Mark TooleySeptember 1, 2020
In this episode, Mark Tooley, Marc LiVecche, and Mark Melton first discuss a couple articles about artificial intelligence and whether…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonAugust 28, 2020
Mark Tooley speaks with Christian Forstner, who directs the Washington, DC, office of the Hanns Seidel Foundation, which is associated…
Mark Tooley & Christian ForstnerAugust 21, 2020