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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

Washington Wednesday: Softer tone, sharper stakes

Trump’s surprisingly warm meeting with Mamdani, the struggle to sell an affordability message, a clash over what counts as an illegal military order, and dismissed cases against Comey and James

Hunter Baker on GOP infighting over the Epstein vote, Trump and Greene’s collapsing alliance, the right’s discomfort with its fringes, and how Catholics are framing the immigration moment

Hunter Baker | Counterpoint: What was meant as a way to restrain passions instead paralyzes normal operations

Hunter Baker sits down with Douglas Wilson to explore his rise, his controversies, and the questions Christians cannot ignore


Recent

Hunter Baker on the Senate deal that ended the standoff, the threat to end the filibuster, and Trump’s burst of pardons

Hunter Baker on Dick Cheney’s life and long influence, Trump’s moral case for military action in Nigeria, and what election results from coast to coast reveal about the political mood

Hunter Baker | The former vice president’s storied career became caught in a Middle East quagmire

Hunter Baker on the Trump administration’s aims in Latin America, its backing of Argentina’s reforms, and its balancing act with China

Hunter Baker on New York politics, presidential pardons, and the government shutdown

Hunter Baker | Saturday’s No Kings protests would have been more persuasive if they had also been held in the Biden years