Hunter Baker
Perhaps a better title would be something like Don’t Allow the Crusades to be Thoughtlessly Added to a Parade of Christian Horribles without Knowing More about It, but I wanted to get your attention. Rodney Stark’s God’s Batallions is an…
I was shocked when Chris Christie won the governor’s race in New Jersey. When I saw his acceptance speech, I thought it was nothing special and figured he just rode a wave into office. I have come to realize that…
I offer my own thoughts about the eReader I want and am earnestly hoping to see developed. I will preface my remarks by saying that I own a first generation Kindle. It was given to me by a friend…
If the Minnesota Vikings win today, they may become the most dangerous team in the playoffs. Brett Favre wears down over the course of a season, but he looks awfully good after the recent break. Should the Vikes emerge from…
I just got my January 2010 issue of Gentlemen’s Quarterly, a magazine I do not pay for, but for some reason receive. There is a big, splashy article on the tea party movement. About four months late, the meme is…
The Big Hollywood blogger and actor Adam Baldwin, recently of the television series Chuck and Firefly, has taken up his virtual pen to defend Brit Hume from those who have criticized him for suggesting that Tiger Woods should consider Christianity…
As we begin the New Year, I find myself thinking about books that fill the conservative armamentarium for resisting the left-liberal onslaught on the past handful of years. I’ve omitted some categories, like military and foreign policy, because they are…
It’s the end of the semester. A degree of giddiness creeps in. My students and I have been working through the political systems of a variety of nations. Yesterday, we talked about China. China is a wonderful subject because…
Political calculus. Yikes. Let’s just spell that last part out. The political calculus is that the more voters can be made dependent on government, the greater the number of them who will support the statist party. Tocqueville, where are…
Houston readers, I’ll be doing a book signing for The End of Secularism Tues, Nov. 10 at Houston Baptist University in the university art gallery. Come see me, won’t you? And hey, I’m not J.K. Rowling, come with or…
