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Marvin Olasky is editor-in-chief of the national news magazine World, and provost of The King's College.
Dr. Olasky has written 13 books of history and cultural analysis, including Compassionate Conservatism, The American Leadership Tradition, The Religions Next Door, and The Tragedy of American Compassion. Marvin Olasky has also co-authored seven more books (including the recent Monkey Business), written seven monographs, and served as general editor of the Turning Point Christian Worldview series.
Marvin Olasky received an A.B. from Yale University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1976. He is an elder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Austin, vice-chairman of the board of City School, and a former chairman of the Austin Crisis Pregnancy Center. He has been a foster parent, a Little League assistant coach, and a PTA president.
Marvin Olasky and his wife Susan have four sons: Pete, David, Daniel, and Benjamin. Susan is a senior writer for World and the author of the Annie Henry series of historical novels for children.
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Marvin Olasky (May 01, 2012)
"Congrats, seniors, this will be a heck of a graduation." That's how a New York University press release breathlessly announced the commencement snaring of U.S. Supreme Court... more
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Marvin Olasky (Apr 16, 2012)
On Dec. 1, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama offered World AIDS Day remarks at Rick Warren's Forum on Global Health. Obama concluded, "In the Apostle Paul's letter to the... more
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Marvin Olasky (Apr 08, 2012)
In my annual pre-April-15 joke columns for 2009 and 2010 I poked fun at accountants, psychiatrists, and others, so it's time to point the finger at myself by assaulting... more
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Marvin Olasky (Mar 26, 2012)
On April 15, 1912, the Titanic sank. The following year a constitutional amendment made possible the graduated income tax, and Congress set a top rate of 7 percent on incomes... more
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Marvin Olasky (Feb 28, 2012)
The debate we're having about velvet socialism—governmental conformity trumping religious liberty in the name of providing equality—is coming 100 years... more
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Marvin Olasky (Feb 14, 2012)
In February we celebrate Presidents Day, a movement from specific detail (Lincoln's birthday, Washington's birthday) to the generic. Washington, of course, is supposed to... more
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Marvin Olasky (Jan 23, 2012)
One recent bestselling book, Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, devotes 832 pages to making the case statistically that a decreasing... more
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Marvin Olasky (Jan 11, 2012)
Looking ahead at the next bubble to burst: higher education. Costs keep going up at
traditional four-year colleges, in part because—with the notable exception of... more