Marvin Olasky is an Acton Institute affiliate scholar and a Discovery Institute senior fellow. Among his 29 books are Prodigal Press, The Tragedy of American Compassion, Fighting for Liberty and Virtue, Compassionate Conservatism, Reforming Journalism, Lament for a Father, and The Story of Abortion in America. He has written 5,000 articles for World magazine and other publications, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Olasky earned an A.B. from Yale University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1976. From 1983 to 2008, he was a professor at The University of Texas at Austin, and from 1992 through 2021 he edited World. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church in America and has been a foster parent, college provost, PTA president, school board and pregnancy-center chairman, and cross-country bicycle rider. Olasky and his wife, Susan, have been married for 46 years.