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.
Hunter Baker on the Court’s women’s-sports cases, the politics of gender and abortion, Trump’s pressure campaign against Jay Powell, Greenland’s strategic importance, and the cultural legacy of Scott Adams
Hunter Baker on moral rescue in Venezuela, presidential power, and the limits of calling regime removal “law enforcement”
WORLD Opinions commentator Hunter Baker examines the scandal behind Tim Walz’s withdrawal and the structural incentives that let public-spending abuse grow
Hunter Baker | The scandal in Minnesota comes with big lessons
Hunter Baker on Charlie Kirk’s assassination, fragmentation on the right, immigration as the proving ground for executive authority, and a year that marked the end of several political eras
The Trump administration blocks medical attempts at sex change for minors, the Heritage Foundation loses staffers to a rival group, and former senator Ben Sasse makes a heartbreaking announcement
Hunter Baker on Trump’s response to a high-profile murder, the moral weight of leadership speech after violence, Republican restraint on redistricting, state–federal conflict over immigration, and Hong Kong’s warning about power unchecked
Hunter Baker on the shutdown fight over expiring Obamacare subsidies and why affordability has become Washington’s unresolved promise
Hunter Baker on Trump’s Tennessee test, Central America’s unresolved election, the legal limits of the narco-war, the asylum pause reshaping U.S. vetting, and the Minnesota fraud scandal now reverberating beyond the state
Hunter Baker | Cowardly public servants failed to do their job of stopping Somali SNAP fraud
