Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

It has been no secret for a long time now that Gavin Newsom wants to run for president.  So naked is his ambition that as soon as Trump got elected the second time, Newsom inelegantly and unmasterfully tried to position himself as a reach-across-the-aisle moderate with a quickly failed podcast.  It was so disingenuous that it fell flat on its face in a matter of weeks.  Since, he has only been able to find traction in being an ardent Trump troll.  But if you want to be president you need more than simply, “He’s awful and I’m not him.”. . .

Monday, June 15, 2026

As has become far too typical in the president’s dealing with Iran, it has been announced that something has happened, but we don’t have a clue as to what has actually happened.  On X, the host quotes John Ellis quoting Bloomberg proclaiming it a deal in which they have 60 days to come to a deal.  And so we can pretty much count on this deal going off the rails at some point because, well, it’s Iran.. . .

Sunday, June 14, 2026

Yesterday I analogized myself to the proverbial porch sitting curmudgeon.  The world is full of the completely, astonishingly outrageous.  Late last week, dean of conservative Calvinist preachers, John Piper, released a podcast entitled “Preaching Outrage” and given the current situation and my current mood, I dove in.. . .

Saturday, June 13, 2026

From the evil to the wrong to the outrageous to the stupid the world seems full of…shall we say, the less than the ideal.  So often does news of the latest “you have got to be kidding me” hit me in the face that I am beginning to wonder if I have turned into that old man sitting on his porch yelling at the kids to get off his lawn.  And I struggle to explain it.  We looked this week at how education has failed kids.  But somehow it seem insufficient as an explanation.. . .

Friday, June 12, 2026

The Chronicle of Higher Education carries a piece by Tyler Jagt, a literature and critical writing professor, entitled, “My Student’s Can’t Read.”  (I am forced to note that for any such prof I had, the use of a contraction in the headline would have been an automatic “B.”)  The article is behind a paywall, but is summarized and discussed by Frank Landymore in an online outlet called Futurism.  It is stunning in its assessment.. . .

Thursday, June 11, 2026

On Monday, Jim Geraghty worried about the end of ethics in electoral politics.  It needs careful analysis.. . .

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Yesterday, in reviewing the obvious nature of electoral shenanigan’s in Los Angeles, I warned that we must resist the temptation to be like them.  My argument, made in less eloquent terms than the Apostle Paul did in the passage quoted in the headline, was that when we do as they do, we give up our claim to rectitude and lose the argument.  This has become massively apparent in recent developments in Belfast, Northern Ireland.. . .

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

It was inevitable, I suppose.  And yet can one discuss inevitability when it comes to the statistically impossible?  Yesterday, The NBC News projection desk declared the two way runoff for Los Angeles Mayor come fall was to be between incumbent Karen “Nero” Bass and upstart Nithya “Lenin” Raman.  This projection appears despite the fact that Republican Spencer Pratt was quite solidly in the second slot for almost a week of counting.  Given what a complete mess the California election laws are these days it will be impossible to separate the legal from the wrongful from the unlawful in the conduct of the election and the count.  But it is painfully clear shenanigans have occurred.  Given the impossibility of corrective actions, what lessons can we learn from this fiasco?. . .

Monday, June 8, 2026

On Thursday, The Pentagon announced a reorganization of its religious affiliation categories.  Fair enough, the system had become unwieldy, religions come and go, adjustments do need to be made from time-to-time.  But on Sunday it began to emerge that within the changes there was one particularly boneheaded change – The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints – The Mormons – were moved out of the “Christian category” and given a separate and unique classification.  Oops – senators are protesting.. . .

Sunday, June 7, 2026

Church these days loves to remind us that “God is love,” but it is funny how little we hear about when Jesus said, “Do not presume that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.”  Too often we like to use the former to justify the church looking the other way about some issue.  I thought about this as I read into Graham Platner this week.. . .