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Hunter Baker

Hunter Baker

Hunter (J.D., Ph.D.) serves as senior fellow for First Liberty’s Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. He is the author of Postliberal Protestants: Baptists between Obergefell and Christian Nationalism, The End of Secularism, Political Thought: A Student's Guide, and The System Has a Soul. His work has appeared in a wide variety of other books and journals. He is a regular commentator on the popular podcast The World & Everything in It.


Articles by Hunter Baker

A wave meets a wall

Hunter Baker weighs the socialist wing’s Florida breakthrough against its sharp setback in one of the country’s competitive House districts. Also: unsettled Senate races, Meta’s courtroom fight, and presidential restraint with reporters.

Hunter Baker on the role of democratic socialist candidates in the midterms, a runoff to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, and Massachusetts’s post-Dobbs abortion law change

Hunter Baker | Democratic Socialists and the electoral landscape

Washington Wednesday: Hunter Baker on the Democratic Party's civil war playing out in Michigan and Missouri, moves across the nation to change state income taxes, and the ethics of the advancement of Todd Blanche's nomination to lead the DOJ.


Recent

Washington Wednesday with Hunter Baker: Anthony Fauci’s COVID-era role shows how political accountability suffered when elected leaders abdicated responsibility.

Hunter Baker | Online discourse, especially among democratic socialists, displays a disturbing lack of understanding of the American experiment

Richard Nixon has become an unlikely icon for some younger conservatives. Also: Britain’s political reset and America’s 50 laboratories of democracy

Washington Wednesday: Hunter Baker on Sen. Lindsey Graham’s legacy, heightened security concerns at the Supreme Court, and the Trump administration’s changing approach to Iran.

Hunter Baker | Sen. Lindsey Graham was a globe-trotting, practical politician who made important contributions to foreign policy

Hunter Baker | The Supreme Court has become less political in recent years, but a scheme by the Democrats would make it just another legislature