Marvin Olasky
Marvin Olasky
Marvin Olaskyis editor-in-chief of WORLD Magazine, the author of more than 20 books, including Fighting for Liberty and Virtue and The Tragedy of American Compassion, and is a distinguished chair in journalism and public policy at Patrick Henry College. He has been married since 1976 to writer Susan Olasky, and they have four sons and one granddaughter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth12 June 1950
CountryUnited States of America
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Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
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That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.
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But we shouldn't be surprised when bad things happen, and we shouldn't think of the United States as a holy land suddenly blemished.
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objectively present and psychologically available. ... It's about hope vs. hopelessness.
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We dated some, ... The relationship has been close. Platonic. We go to dinner, I go to Washington for special things.
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President Bush has been careful in his statements specifically about Iraq to emphasize that we are on a long, winding and sometimes deadly road.
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Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.
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A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.
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The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.
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Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.
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Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.
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More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.
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Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
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Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.