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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It’s been widely noted that the U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian airbase seem at odds with Donald Trump’s electioneering opposition to American intervention. But there should be little surprise.
Mark TooleyApril 11, 2017
Woodrow Wilson’s war speech contains many distinctive assertions illustrating how Americans then, before and now view their nation, the world, and war.
Mark TooleyApril 5, 2017
Bret Baier’s new book Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final Mission focuses on Ike’s 1961 farewell speech eschewing the “military industrial complex.”
Mark TooleyMarch 9, 2017
The recent unpleasant telephone call between the USA president and Australian premier over refugees contrasts with the bromance between LBJ and Harold Holt.
Mark TooleyFebruary 8, 2017
A bust of Winston Churchill, on loan from the British government, has returned to the Oval Office after having been controversially returned to the British.
Mark TooleyJanuary 31, 2017
Visiting historic, charming Lexington, Virginia is a tonic for the soul, and among its ornaments is the General George Marshall…
Mark TooleyJanuary 21, 2017
President Obama’s commutation of U.S. Army traitor Bradley, aka Chelsea, Manning’s 35-year prison sentence for violating the Espionage Act, among other crimes, raises important spiritual questions.
Mark TooleyJanuary 18, 2017
At the moment of her father’s death, Josef Stalin’s daughter recalled: “He suddenly lifted his left hand as though he…
Mark TooleyJanuary 13, 2017
Every couple years a supposedly new revelation claims Nixon secretly sabotaged a possible Vietnam peace settlement by LBJ during the 1968 election.
Mark TooleyJanuary 3, 2017
During the recent USA presidential election, amid talk of Russian interference, a facile Washington Post column proposed a moral equivalence…
Mark TooleyDecember 28, 2016
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