About Justin Haskins

Justin Haskins is a Christian writer and a research fellow and senior editor at The Henry Dearborn Institute for Liberty. He’s the author of  the Amazon best-selling book Socialism Is Evil: The Moral Case Against Marx’s Radical Dream (2018). Haskins also serves as the editorial director and research fellow at The Heartland Institute, a national free-market think tank.

Justin HaskinsHaskins has been published hundreds of times in major digital and print publications, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Forbes, FoxNews.com, Newsweek, and National Review, among many others. His writing has also been featured or discussed by The Rush Limbaugh Show, Glenn Beck Radio Program, the Fox News Channel, The New York Times, Drudge Report, The Heritage Foundation, and Newsmax, which named Haskins one of “Top 30 Republicans Under 30” in 2017. In 2016, Haskins was named to MediaDC’s “30 Under 30” list of young and influential leaders on the right.

Haskins writes a column for FoxNews.com and has appeared on television and radio more than 100 times on shows like Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox&Friends, and the Glenn Beck Program.

Prior to joining The Heartland Institute in 2014, Haskins was briefly the field director for the Rhode Island Republican Party and managing editor of African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review. He graduated from the University of Richmond (Richmond, VA) in 2010. In 2011, Justin earned his M.A. in government with specializations in international relations and American government from Regent University (Virginia Beach, VA), and he earned a second M.A., this time in journalism, from Regent University in 2015.

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