Hunter Baker

Machiavelli’s succinct and semi-diabolical advice to the prince is one of the most enduring works of political philosophy in the world. This man, writing in a time roughly contemporaneous with the Reformation, was less concerned with seeking the will of…

I have watched with deepening dismay as the American left has increasingly embraced a political strategy which aims to keep people on their side by creating fear over the consequences of NOT being with them. Example: Robert Bork was a…

And he does it for the Washington Times.  Thank you, Jim. Money clip: Early in “The End of Secularism,” Hunter Baker of Houston Baptist University talks about his religious awakening. He came to believe that if the God of the…

A wonderful analysis by Bill Whittle of Pajamas Media.  

My friend Ben Domenech has an extremely provocative piece up at his website The New Ledger (which you should check out for some really top notch features).  The topic is conservative advocacy organizations and think tanks.  Domenech thinks they are…

My father has worked continuously as an engineer since the 1960’s, first as a chemical engineer with the Monsanto corporation and more recently as part of the missile defense effort.   After the White House began paring back missile defense…

Washington Redskins lose to the hapless Detroit Lions, thus ending the Lions’ 19 game losing streak.  Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to receive TARP funds.

I was telling my boss, Robert Sloan (former Baylor president and current president of HBU), about Michael Moore’s new film Capitalism: A Love Story.  We briefly discussed an interview of Moore by the Wall Street Journal yesterday in which Moore…

Mike Huckabee may have won the straw poll at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, but Tim Pawlenty may have done himself the most good.  I saw the major contenders give their speeches and thought, like Mark Hemingway of…

As a panelist at this year’s Family Research Council Values Voter Summit (going on right now at the Omni Shoreham hotel in D.C.), I can’t help but reflect on the strange fears of the American left.   Garry Wills’ charge…