or context from experts either to support the idea or provide contrary views." Baker was subsequently reassigned to the opinion division where staff have more flexibility. Views Baker describes himself as a "right-wing curmudgeon"; writer and media critic David Carr described Baker in 2009 as "a neoconservative columnist of acute political views." Baker holds Eurosceptic views, arguing against closer European integration. Ryan Chittum, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, criticised Baker in the Columbia Journalism Review as "an Iraq War-cheerleading neocon, goofball Obama ridiculer, and author of some of the wrongest commentary of the financial crisis". Chittum highlighted several of Baker's previous writings, including a column in the Financial Times in 2003 in which Baker mocked French opposition to the Iraq War, and a column in The Times in 2006 in which Baker argued that "we are going to have to get ready for war with Iran." On 25 January 2021, five days after the inauguration of Joe Biden, Baker wrote an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal in which he insinuated that under the Biden presidency, Trump supporters would be forced to enter Democratic "re-education programs". In a separate article, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof referred to the column as right-wing fearmongering. References External links Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford British journalists British expatriates in the United States The Wall Street Journal people Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American newspaper editors Managing editors