Marvin Olasky

About The Author

Marvin Olasky is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute and the author of twenty-eight books, including The Tragedy of American Compassion and Lament for a Father. From 1983 through 2021 he was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the editor in chief of WORLD. He and his wife, Susan, have four sons.

Books by Marvin Olasky

The Tragedy of American Compassion
By Marvin Olasky
Can a man be content with a piece of bread and some change tossed his way from a passerby? Today's modern welfare state expects he can. Those who control the money in our society think that giving a dollar at the train station and then appropriating a billion dollars for federal housing can cure...
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