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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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
With global attention on the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, there’s been little notice of the burial in Manila’s…
Mark TooleyNovember 29, 2016
Retired Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque, a Pearl Harbor hero who just died at age 98, was the controversial founder…
Mark TooleyNovember 10, 2016
Hamilton’s version of history is appealing to American ears, especially to FDR fans.
Mark TooleyOctober 25, 2016
What can Anglican legacy teach us, Christian or not, about building just and sustainable societies and nations? Very likely a great deal. Rather than critiquing nationalism, more of Christianity needs a theology of just and godly nationalism.
Mark TooleyOctober 24, 2016
The just deceased Thailand King Bhumibol Adulyadej after 70 years of rule was the longest head of state, a status now belonging to Queen Elizabeth II.
Mark TooleyOctober 17, 2016
Greta Zimmer Friedman, the 21 year old dental assistant reputedly the woman often mistaken for a nurse in the famous August 14, 1945 V-J Day photos, has died at age 92. The scene, long known as The Kiss, shows her with a young sailor, who apparently was kissing women at random in Times Square as part of the spontaneous, raucous celebration in Times Square.
Mark TooleySeptember 11, 2016
Americans who, as they watch their giant screen televisions or drive their SUVs to the Outback for dinner, complain about…
Mark TooleyAugust 18, 2016
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