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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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
In this episode of Marksism, Mark Tooley and Marc LiVecche discuss Tom Holland’s Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind….
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVeccheJuly 4, 2020
Nicholas Dujmovic is 27 year CIA veteran who now directs intelligence studies at Catholic University in Washington, DC. He’s a…
Mark Tooley & Nicholas DujmovicJuly 4, 2020
Amid grievance and despair, it’s a challenging season for believers in America and its founding principles. Most of the current protests echo the fads of postmodern academia, insisting that America is a uniquely wicked and oppressive enterprise without redemptive possibility. Much of the commanding heights of culture to some degree feel obliged to pay obeisance to this grim perspective; journalism, big corporations, philanthropies, the social sciences, entertainment moguls and personalities.
Mark TooleyJuly 2, 2020
British historian Tom Holland’s brilliant book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World describes the sometimes unrealized, even covertly…
Mark TooleyJuly 1, 2020
In the sixth episode of Marksism series on June 26, 2020, editors Mark Tooley, Mark Melton, and Marc LiVecche speak…
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonJune 26, 2020