Marvin Olasky

Marvin Olasky graduated from Yale University in 1971 and gained a Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1976. He was a professor at The University of Texas at Austin from 1983 to 2008 and held appointments at San Diego State, Princeton, The King’s College, and Patrick Henry College. He edited World magazine from 1992 to 2021, wrote for the Boston Globe and Austin American-Statesman, and is a Discovery Institute senior fellow and an Acton Institute affiliate scholar. He has written 30 books, and now chairs the board of the Zenger House Foundation. Married for 48 years, Olasky and his wife Susan have four children and six grandchildren.