Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Thursday, January 29, 2026

The situation has grown completely out-of-hand.  Social media is, in some circles, full of memes that amount to death threats aimed at anyone involved in the unfortunate deaths in Minneapolis in recent days – up to and including the POTUS.  In a different age, the things I have read would lead to a knock on the door from the Secret Service.  Ilan Omar was attacked yesterday – some wonder if it was a set-up.  Regardless, it is symbolic of a situation that has left the boundaries of reason and civil discourse.  The former Vice President and the host have issued clarion calls for reason and sobriety – both in severe short supply.. . .

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

…He is very wrong.  Yesterday when Michael Duncan was on the show (a regular as one of the guys from the Ruthless podcast) the host tried to make fun of Duncan’s Hoosier heritage, in light of Indiana’s overwhelming football National Championship victory, by asking Duncan to list the top tourist attractions in the Hoosier State.  The host asked specifically about theme parks, as if King’s Island and Cedar Point make Ohio so much more interesting than neighboring Indiana – mostly out of desperation as Duncan started to run down the list of great events that happen in Indiana.  The host used his typical trick to win an argument of this type – he filibustered, talking over Duncan at every opportunity.  So I suppose it is up to me, who grew up a Hoosier, to point out that Indiana really is a wonderful place to visit.. . .

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

The narrative in Minneapolis has now laser focused on the death of Alex Pretti.  I tend to presume law enforcement acted properly until extensively proven otherwise.  I admit the video is damning, but it is also not clear exactly what was going on.  Yet everybody has made up their mind, sides are chosen – battle lines drawn.  But we are forgetting how all this started.. . .

Monday, January 26, 2026

Yesterday I was just apoplectic at the news out of Iran that they killed over 30,000 in the crackdown – a number comparable to the Nazis.  That’s double the 15,000 number that had commonly been running around.  Yesterday, thankfully, the New York Post reported on the same report and set the number at 36,500.  (That’s roughly 20% more than the doubled number for those not skilled at arithmetic.)  Wherever the number ends up it is enormous and heinous.  The Iranian regime is nothing short of monstrous.  I berated those that are on a moral high horse in Minneapolis while ignoring this situation altogether.  But in decrying sin, I too may have been sinful.. . .

Sunday, January 25, 2026

I have been sitting here for about an hour now avoiding writing this post.  Church is cancelled this morning because of the massive winter storm, so here I sit with this news and only prayer to comfort me.  It wasn’t supposed to happen again, but it has.. . .

Saturday, January 24, 2026

Many of us predict California’s demise.  But what does that look like?  How will we know it when it happens?  The host declared California a “zombie” state this past week – maybe it is dead already and just does not know it?  I thought this post about it being more of a slow erosion than a catastrophic event was quite insightful.  It is experiencing, or perhaps has experienced but does not know it yet -death by a thousand cuts.. . .

Friday, January 23, 2026

Just a bit more than a week ago, it feels much longer than that so I was pleased when I checked the date, I compared the current Iranian regime with some of the great mass killers of history.  I ended that post saying, “But make no mistake, this is no longer a matter of foreign policy – this is a matter of morality, of standing for what is right in the world.”  Not long after I wrote that President Trump said the killing had stopped and Iran has not been much discussed since.  It is my prayer that this silence and lack of action is strategic and not simply pragmatic.. . .

Thursday, January 22, 2026

So, on Tuesday, I looked at how both Left and Right claim to be acting in a Christian fashion and then called for a bit of humility.  In that post I linked to an article on Don Lemon’s excruciating podcast interview in which he claimed a lot of Christianity is white supremist.  But I missed his claim, in that same interview, that he was imitating Christ tearing up the Temple courtyard.  I made specific reference to that Biblical incident in that post, but I had no idea Lemon was claiming it as justification for his actions.  With this claim Lemon is saying, essentially, “I understand Jesus better than the people in that church do.”  That’s a pretty astonishing claim, I just wish the Left’s claims to the only true Christian understanding ended there.. . .

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

“The Science,” which it must be remembered is very different than actual science, can produce some absolutely maddening things.  “The Science” is a perversion of actual science designed to speak unequivocally (science is almost always equivocal) in order to drive some agenda in some direction.  Science is about precision, hence mathematics is its primary language.  “The Science,” being political in nature, uses English as its primary language and often tortures the language in order to make a point.. . .

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Christians have fought Christians throughout history.  Rome v Constantinople…Catholic v Protestant…Presbyterians v The Church of England…German Lutheran provinces v German Catholic provinces – the list is interminable.  More often than not these were political fights wrapped in church clothing.  People don’t usually go to war over theology unless one theology comes with a bunch of territory that the other theology wants.  The American experiment has been a bold effort to bring such things to an end by separating church and government, not only bringing peace where little was known, but preserving religious expression that would otherwise have been crushed as it lost some battle.  It is supposed to be a win-win. But alas….. . .