Hunter Baker @hunterbaker

Author, professor, and provost at North Greenville University. World, ERLC, Acton, Modern Age, CRCD, Braver Angels, Land Center, Touchstone. AMDG. linkedin.com/in/hunterbaker/ Greenville, SC Joined December 2008

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

13 hours ago

It's hard to overstate how much of an outlier California is for its slow vote-counting relative to literally any other state or almost any other industrialized democracy.

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Sen. Susan Collins @SenatorCollins

a day ago

Today, I cast my 10,000th consecutive roll call vote, extending the unbroken voting streak that I have maintained throughout my entire Senate service. Mainers are known for their work ethic, and they deserve a Senator who works just as hard for them. Growing up in Aroostook County, I learned the value of hard work, perseverance, and honoring your commitments. I am proud to bring those values with me to the Senate every day. Representing the State of Maine is the honor of a lifetime, and I will continue to serve with the diligence and responsibility that Mainers deserve. x.com/cspan/status/2…

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Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky

19 hours ago

A big part of growing up for me was realizing I am part of an actually superior culture, a better society, a place where humans are actually raised to the highest potential and greatest character, where moral rigorism largely achieved its ends for generations on end. And other people did not have that privilege.

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Hunter Baker @hunterbaker

18 hours ago

@McCormickProf Exactly right.

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Robert P. George @McCormickProf

20 hours ago

People with Down Syndrome are human beings. They are, as such, bearers of profound, inherent, and equal dignity and the right to life. To target them for extermination on the basis of their condition is as wicked as targeting people on account of their race, sex, or ethnicity.

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Handre @Handre

20 hours ago

While Western intellectuals spent the 1970s and 80s gushing over Soviet "achievements," Ludwig von Mises had already written the empire's obituary decades earlier. In 1920, he published his devastating critique of socialist calculation, proving that rational economic planning becomes impossible without market prices. The academic establishment ignored him. The Soviets dismissed him as a capitalist propagandist. You cannot allocate resources efficiently when you have destroyed the price mechanism. When the state owns all means of production, it eliminates the very market signals that coordinate human action. No central planner, regardless of intelligence or computing power, can substitute for the decentralized knowledge that emerges from voluntary exchange. The proof arrived exactly as Mises predicted. By the 1980s, Soviet grocery stores sat empty while millions of bureaucrats shuffled paper in Moscow offices. Factory managers produced worthless goods because they responded to arbitrary quotas rather than consumer demand. The entire system collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions in 1991, stunning the same Western economists who had spent decades praising Soviet growth statistics. Meanwhile, Paul Samuelson was still teaching students in 1989 that the Soviet economy might overtake America's. The New York Times continued publishing editorials about the resilience of socialist planning. Mises got it right because he understood human action and the impossibility of calculation without private property. The establishment economists got it wrong because they confused mathematical models with economic reality. They treated human beings as equations instead of purposeful actors making choices under uncertainty.

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Hunter Baker @hunterbaker

19 hours ago

@PaulRDeHart @JimmySpencer That's true. The game has declined badly.

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Hunter Baker @hunterbaker

a day ago

@SeanTrende I had the same thought. Of course, Susan Collins has been quite the survivor. We'll see . . .

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Hunter Baker @hunterbaker

a day ago

@MarkMcK20806755 @megbasham @BaptistLeaders I saw Megan’s question and did not feel the resolution spoke to immigration policy at that level of detail. In my view, we were calling for an orderly system rather than a chaotic and discretionary one that serves no one well.

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Hunter Baker @hunterbaker

2 days ago

@MarkMcK20806755 @megbasham @BaptistLeaders What are we talking about? Mohler amendment?

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Hunter Baker @hunterbaker

2 days ago

@JW_Lumley @megbasham It doesn't help much if you don't explain why. Is it really that hard to sift substantive engagement from the equivalent of trolling?

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Hunter Baker @hunterbaker

4 days ago

As we approach this year’s SBC in Orlando, remember these words: conflict entrepreneur. Don’t feed them.

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Hunter Baker @hunterbaker

2 days ago

Join us! Happy to meet folks.

Criswell College @CriswellCollege

2 weeks ago

Join Criswell College and @bartbarber, @deaninserra, @MusingsOnChrist, and @hunterbaker at the #SBC26 in Orlando for dinner and a panel discussion on religious liberty, Christian nationalism, and faith in the public square. Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/criswell-col…

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Hunter Baker @hunterbaker

2 days ago

@JW_Lumley @megbasham I thought I was very clear. I have zero problem with well-stated substantive arguments. What I've seen is just destructive posturing and immature role-playing. I'll take anybody seriously who communicates in an adult fashion.

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Hunter Baker @hunterbaker

2 days ago

@merelyjwright @megbasham I'm choosing not to name names, but there are some folks here who do nothing but try to "ratio" people and kick up negative emotions that drive online engagement. That's just acid. It doesn't help anything and makes it harder to do anything good.

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Hunter Baker @hunterbaker

2 days ago

@merelyjwright @megbasham It has to do with substantive content and argumentation as opposed to constant sniping and demagoguery. Here's what I had to say about Megan's book. thepublicdiscourse.com/2024/09/95775/

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Hunter Baker @hunterbaker

2 days ago

@megbasham If you recall, I engaged your work in Public Discourse. That's respect. Conflict entrepreneurs don't offer anything of enough value to even really discuss meaningfully.

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Hunter Baker @hunterbaker

2 days ago

Criswell College Dinner at the SBC — Excited to be with Criswell friends at the convention. Join us! eventbrite.com/e/criswell-col…

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Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro

2 days ago

@ReverendWarnock The Court doesn’t believe districts should be drawn based on race, because all citizens have equal rights. It’s a damn shame that US Senator disagrees. Then again, a lot of Georgia Democrats would’ve agreed with you before Jim Crow ended.