Justin Haskins is a Senior Fellow at The Heartland Institute, a national free-market think tank, and a New York Times bestselling author and political commentator. His opinion articles and policy analyses have been widely published and read by millions of Americans. Haskins also serves as the editor-in-chief of StoppingSocialism.com, one of the world’s largest and most influential publications devoted to challenging socialism.
Most important of all, Haskins is a passionate Christian who imperfectly seeks to live out his faith in all of his work.
Haskins writes frequently for FoxNews.com and TheBlaze, and he contributes regularly to The Hill, Newsweek, and Townhall, among other leading publications. He has also appeared on television and radio more than 350 times, including on highly influential shows such as Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox & Friends, and the Glenn Beck Program.
Haskins is the author of the Amazon best-selling book Socialism Is Evil: The Moral Case Against Marx’s Radical Dream (2018), and he is the first contributor to Glenn Beck’s Arguing with Socialists (2020), a New York Times best-selling book. Haskins is the co-author, with Beck, of The Great Reset: Joe Biden and the Rise of Twenty-First Century Fascism (2022), which appeared on numerous bestselling books lists in 2022, including those of the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal. He also co-authored, again with Beck, Dark Future: Uncovering the Great Reset’s Terrifying Next Phase (2023) and Propaganda Wars: How Global Elites Control What You See, Think, and Feel (2024). Dark Future appeared on The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best-seller lists, and Propaganda Wars was a national bestseller as well.
Haskins has published more than 1,000 opinion articles and policy analyses in major digital and print publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Federalist, New York Post, Forbes, Newsweek, and National Review. His writing has been featured by The Rush Limbaugh Show, Glenn Beck Program, Hannity, Jesse Watters Primetime, Fox & Friends, The New York Times, Washington Post, Heritage Foundation, BlazeTV, Newsmax, the White House, by countless members of Congress, and by Donald Trump.
Haskins is author or co-author of several Heartland policy papers, all of which have received significant media attention, including “The American Health Care Plan” (2021), “Estimating the Income Tax Hikes Required to Pay for Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-All Plan” (2019), and “Debunking the Scandinavian Socialism Myth: An Evaluation of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden” (2019).
Additionally, Haskins has co-authored more than thirty national surveys conducted by Rasmussen Reports, one of America’s leading pollsters. President Donald Trump called Haskins’ December 2023 survey about election fraud “the biggest story of the year” and “the most important poll released in the last 20 years.”
Haskins graduated with a bachelor’s degree 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). In 2015, he earned a second M.A., this time in journalism, from Regent University.
Haskins was inducted into the Philadelphia Society in 2018, and he is currently a member of the National Association of Scholars, Federalist Society, and National Rifle Association. In 2017, Haskins was named one of Newsmax’s “Top 30 Republicans under 30.”