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 somewhat unusual to see many senior French officials together in church. But three French presidents attended the mass at…
Mark TooleyAugust 2, 2016
Some years ago I watched on television the compelling 1984 film The Killing Fields, in which Sam Waterston plays an…
Mark TooleyJuly 21, 2016
The historic English speaking world hasn’t had a military coup in over 350 years since Oliver Cromwell dispersed the Long…
Mark TooleyJuly 19, 2016
The new international thriller film Our Kind of Traitor, based on a 2010 novel by master spy raconteur John LeCarré, is surprisingly inspiring.
Mark TooleyJuly 12, 2016
July 4 marked the 40th anniversary of Israel’s daring rescue of hijacked airline passengers captive to Palestinian and German terrorists…
Mark TooleyJuly 6, 2016
June 22 marked the 75th anniversary of the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union, code named Operation Barbarossa, which was the most murderous conflict in human history.
Mark TooleyJune 28, 2016
June 23 marks the anniversary of the greatest electoral triumph in French history, with supporters of President DeGaulle winning over…
Mark TooleyJune 21, 2016
Queen Elizabeth just celebrated her 90th birthday. In the global public eye since becoming the royal heir in 1936 upon…
Mark TooleyJune 13, 2016
The once powerful and widely despised widow of communist East Germany’s last dictator, herself unrepentant until the end about her…
Mark TooleyJune 11, 2016
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