Author Archives
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Lashing Out, Rod Dreher (Again) Reveals His Ignorance of Hungary
People interested in Christianity, American politics, and the culture wars may have run across the name of Rod Dreher. He’s a rather prolific writer and journalist who maintains a regular blog with the magazine The American Conservative. Some years ago… Read More ›
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What Viktor Orbán Revealed This Weekend
Viktor Orbán has a habit of giving controversial speeches in Romania. His notorious 2014 illiberalism speech was delivered there. Just a few weeks ago, he delivered another whopper, which included unmistakably racist language. In an essay I wrote for The… Read More ›
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What the ‘National Conservatives’ Get Wrong About Liberalism
National conservatism is a new “movement” of public intellectuals who purport to be conservative. But if conservative is related to conserving, I don’t think they are. They’re actually disgruntled revolutionaries intent on tearing things down. As their name suggests, national… Read More ›
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Jason Stanley on Fascism
In this episode of BaerTalk, Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, discusses his controversial book, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Prof. Stanley is a prominent public intellectual who generates a fair bit… Read More ›
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Hungary’s Autocrat Orbán Fends Off Opposition Challenge
I wrote this short article for The Bulwark on April 3, 2022, the night of Viktor Orbán’s big election victory. It was a first take, which I think has held up pretty well. You can read it here.
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What Was Putin Thinking?
In this episode of BaerTalk, Svetlana Savranskaya, a Senior Analyst at the National Security Archives, talks about the war in Ukraine from the Russian perspective. She tries to get inside Putin’s head to explain what he might have been thinking… Read More ›
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Expect a Viktor Orbán Win Next Month
This article was published in The Bulwark. Not only do I predict what will happen in Hungary’s election, but I explain why making this prediction is easy – because Hungary’s not a democracy. This first two paragraphs of the article… Read More ›
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The Long Walk of the Navajo Nation
In this episode of BaerTalk I talk about the history of the Navajo people with Patrick Moore, Executive Director of New Mexico Historic Sites, and Manuelito Wheeler, Director of the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona. The Navajo Nation… Read More ›
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Interview with Zoltán Fleck, Chair of Péter Márki-Zay’s Constitutional Working Group
Zoltán Fleck is a Professor of Law and Sociology at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest. He was recently appointed by Péter Márki-Zay, the leader of Hungary’s democratic opposition, to head up a working group tasked with examining constitutional… Read More ›
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Are Science and Religion Compatible?
Stephen M. Barr joins me on the podcast to discuss the relationship between science and religion. A member of the American Physical Society, Stephen Barr is an accomplished theoretical particle physicist. He is also a practicing Christian, President of the… Read More ›
H. David Baer 