Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Monday, May 18, 2026

A recent “tweet” from wretchardthecat reads, in part, “The real emotional fuel for Trump hatred is only partly fueled by logical disagreement. Most of it comes from his choice of furniture, design of ballroom, the ghastly red caterpillar cap, vulgar speech and most of all ‘bigly’. They might forgive all else, but never ‘bigly’.”  Once reason is jettisoned, all sorts of interesting things begin to happen.. . .

Sunday, May 17, 2026

Each Sunday I wake up and reflect on how churches are indeed growing with young people in this time when far too often God seems to be missing from our midst.  But then some Sundays I wake up and read stories like this, “Pastor Clive Johnston, 78, a former president of the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, was found guilty on May 7 at Coleraine Magistrates’ Court on two charges under Northern Ireland’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act 2023 for preaching on John 3:16 near the abortion buffer zone located outside of Causeway Hospital.”  Hope seems harder to find in those young attendees – particularly in this college town as they head home and the pews are noticeably emptier.. . .

Saturday, May 16, 2026

This week’s appearance of Noah Rothman featured a discussion of why would anyone enter politics these days?  It’s worth a listen, but the discussion occurs without acknowledging what may be the central fact of the matter.. . .

Friday, May 15, 2026

We tend to think about tyranny in monolithic terms.  That a single individual, or consortium of individuals, rule tyrannically over a peoples.  But I think in modern America we have invented a new type of tyranny – a tyranny of multiple and competing bureaucracies.  I first wrote about the bureaucratic entanglements that were to plague LA from the fires as the fires burned.  Yesterday an article appeared that makes the point most vividly.. . .

Thursday, May 14, 2026

Two unrelated stories that have been floating all week make very clear that human normality is not at all like we think it is, and especially what we wish it is.. . .

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

On Monday, The Free Press published a piece by Kat Rosenfield on “suicidal empathy.”  She describes the term as “politically loaded,” but it is also useful to understand a lot of why denominationalism is dead in America.. . .

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

They played politics with covid and things got expensive, inflationary and stupid.  But Trump was not reelected, so the Trump-hating-obsessed thought it worth the price.  (Is it any wonder that increasingly people on the far left think political violence is justified?)  Hantavirus is not covid, by any stretch of the imagination.  So says Dr, Jay Bhattacharya, acting head of the CDC, and head of the NIH, and one of the few people to make sense during covid – much to the chagrin of the people then in charge.  And yet, people were starting to question his credibility over this past weekend.. . .

Monday, May 11, 2026

On Saturday we looked briefly at a piece on how the Far Left has used the internet and small donations to capture the Democratic Party.  On Sunday we looked at a recent commencement address from Nancy Pelosi and  just how over-the-top superlative her rhetoric has become.  Today we come upon a rather startling statistic (HT: Instapundit), “25% of “very liberal” Americans say violence can be justified to achieve political goals compared with 3% of “very conservative” Americans.”  One of the two major American political parties is moving towards the very liberal end of the spectrum with increasingly apocalyptic rhetoric and a strong inclination to violence to achieve its ends.  That sounds like a recipe for a problem to me.. . .

Sunday, May 10, 2026

Nancy Pelosi gave a commencement address.  Nothing unusual about that.  The speech has; however, become a bit controversial.  There is a good political reason why.  But there is also an undiscussed religious one.. . .

Saturday, May 9, 2026

Katie Porter.  Remember her?  She is still in the California gubernatorial race, but like a race car after a disastrous pit stop, she is in the the back of the field.  Her crime was cursing a staffer on a video call and it went viral.  It seems as if demeaning insult is her primary form of debate.  This week however, she launched an ad that she no doubt thought would fix everything, yet horribly missed the mark.  In the viral video she screams the f-word at a staffer that gets “in her shot.”  In the ad she kindly asks the staffers standing behind her to get out of her shot – *giggle* — *giggle.*  And there, in two short clips, is so, so much of what troubles us, and especially California, these days.. . .