Marvin Olasky is Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, a senior fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, and the editor of World, a national weekly news magazine from a biblical perspective.

He is the author of thirteen books of history and cultural analysis, including The Tragedy of American Compassion and The American Leadership Tradition: Moral Vision from Washington to Clinton. His latest book is Compassionate Conservatism: What It Is, What It Does, and How It Can Transform America.

Dr. 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 and serves as a trustee of Covenant College, and an advisor to a variety of organizations.