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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The latest World Happiness Report ranks all the world’s countries by happiness, based on polling of residents plus levels of GDP, life…
Mark TooleyMarch 25, 2016
On March 23, 1983 President Reagan delivered his famous “Star Wars” speech urging that the USA pivot away from a…
Mark TooleyMarch 23, 2016
Del Berg, age 100, died last week, reputedly the last of several thousand Americans who fought in the 1930s Spanish…
Mark TooleyMarch 7, 2016
Seventy years ago today Winston Churchill gave his Iron Curtain Speech, articulating what is obvious today but was not fully…
Mark TooleyMarch 5, 2016
Can you imagine an American president today greeted by hundreds of thousands with acclaim and American flags as he rides…
Mark TooleyFebruary 28, 2016
Donald Trump has denounced the Iraq War as a “horrible mistake,” and “one of the worst decisions in the history…
Mark TooleyFebruary 18, 2016
Last week a delegation of delightful South Korean students visited our office. They all stood respectfully when I arrived, took…
Mark TooleyFebruary 1, 2016
The several USA citizens of Iranian background recently released after imprisonment on contrived charges in Iran coincidentally, or not, arrived…
Mark TooleyJanuary 24, 2016
C.S. Lewis wrote that a virtuous patriotism becomes “militant only to protect what it loves.” This theme animates 13 Hours:…
Mark TooleyJanuary 15, 2016
A Libyan bomb blew up New York-bound Pan Am Flight 103 out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland 27 years…
Mark TooleyDecember 26, 2015
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