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. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 01 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Tue, 01 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ "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 Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Other schools swoon... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2012/05/01/spotlighting_christ 53b87663-7197-4bdf-9d7f-a98792e93989 Tue, 01 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT 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 Corinthians, he asked, 'If the trumpet does not... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2012/04/16/the_breathless_trumpeter 876ad43f-335b-4041-99ec-baaadc27cbd0 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:13:00 GMT 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 editors. Question: How many editors does it take... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2012/04/08/poking_fun_at_editors_like_me 0d4da714-39e3-4083-92aa-8f22e995a6d9 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT 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 above $11 million (in 2012 dollars). At... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2012/03/26/titanic_futility 7e422ecc-8ca5-4aaa-9f24-deaaee375707 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:02:00 GMT The debate we're having about velvet socialism—governmental conformity trumping religious liberty in the name of providing equality—is coming 100 years after overt socialism's greatest political... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2012/02/28/a_century_of_lessons f20ed788-e1d3-4d02-8591-df0bcf6a2751 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT 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 have chopped down a cherry tree and then... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2012/02/14/be_specific f54b3967-7a0f-48d3-8d37-8c93f8a23a16 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:06:00 GMT 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 percentage of humans are dying in warfare or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2012/01/23/wretched_abortion__but_here_are_two_delightful_contests 60005497-c6b2-4578-984d-02cab3da48bc Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:45:00 GMT 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 some Christian colleges and a few others that are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2012/01/11/advice_to_parents_explore_noncollege_options b46f33bd-0d2c-41bd-90b6-9c7a79e4a9f6 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:13:00 GMT It's time once again to relish the worst mainstream journalism of the past 12 months. For the 24th year in a row I'm a judge for the Media Research Center awards, and this year the 98 finalists taught me a lot. I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2011/12/28/judging_the_worst_journalism_of_2011 1aa94630-8d83-42ba-808c-68090069fff3 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:56:00 GMT Impasse. Democrats want higher taxes on the rich and say GOP stalwarts are "selfish." Republicans oppose tax hikes and say the Dems are big-government empire-builders. Impasse? Not necessarily. I have a proposal.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2011/12/14/a_way_out_say_no_to_taxandspend_but_say_yes_to_taxandcredit cb094967-6ac2-4677-b0df-ebf678768eeb Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT With baseball my spirit was always willing but my flesh was weak. One example: I never hit a home run in a game and came close only once. In 1976 I played in a University of Michigan graduate student co-ed softball... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2011/12/01/will_libya_ever_return_to_its_roots_and_embrace_religious_liberty 03a50dd7-33a2-4063-bc7d-522a3119824b Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT Is it unfair to suggest, as we did in WORLD’s Nov. 19 cover story, that 46 million people on food stamps is too many? That the prospect of half of America's children living off food stamps is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2011/11/18/punching_paper_walls 4f3d1fa4-5406-4636-99a2-d967080182e0 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT WORLD Magazine's current cover story is about hope in Afghanistan. This column is about hope in America. Occupy Wall Street cadres shout that selfishness rules America, but thousands of compassionate programs show that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2011/11/02/american_spirit_of_social_entrepreneurship_should_provide_hope_when_pessimism_knocks 76793ec4-b251-4517-9600-9584a47e0035 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:01:00 GMT Last month I wrote about creating more jobs by not worrying about inequality and putting aside class envy. One reader responded by asking whether I truly understood the debilitating effects of inequality and the anger... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2011/10/18/battling_class_envy_a_long_struggle_for_me,_and_for_america 5a01a85f-14c0-45fb-b768-fca37af01b39 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:01:00 GMT When John Piper needed surgery a few years back he wrote a great piece, "Don't waste your cancer." He argued that it would be wasted "if you think that 'beating' cancer means staying alive rather than cherishing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2011/10/03/dont_waste_your_poison_ivy d64fb3e5-0ae0-468e-a429-b4feb5b3c93b Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:31:00 GMT