Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Thursday, April 16, 2026

It is said that an addict has to “hit bottom” before they will actually change.  Hitting bottom is defined, “reaching the lowest possible point, state, or condition, often characterized by intense misery, failure, or despair.”  I am beginning to wonder if California has a bottom to hit.. . .

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Sometime when I was in what was then known as “Junior High School” my mother clipped a one-panel cartoon out of the newspaper (remember those?) and posted it on the fridge.  There it sat well into my adulthood disappearing only sometime well after I had moved out-of-state altogether as a adult.  The cartoon depicted a stone wall with graffiti that read what titled this post.  My mom said it was there to remind her, but it became seared into my memory – so much so that here we are, 50 years later and it popped in my mind instantly when I came across what I want to discuss this morning.. . .

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

California suffers two great illnesses.  One, because it’s “Hollywood” they think image matters more than reality  Two, the Democrat majority have rendered elections seemingly uncompetitive for Republicans and taken monopolistic control.  That’s an ugly combination and it has come home to roost.  (Actually, the first one there came home to roost with the election of pretty boy Gavin Newsom who has proven utterly incapable of governing, but this post is about the combination.). . .

Monday, April 13, 2026

Going into the negotiations this past weekend everyone said the Islamists ostensibly in charge in Iran only had two negotiating levers – their pile of nuclear junk, unusable at the moment but dangerous to leave them with, and the Strait of Hormuz.  Everyone was wrong; they had a third – the general populace of Iran.  Further large scale military action no longer threatens the mullahs and their military and secret police, it threatens the people of Iran, making any such large scale military action highly problematic.  In essence the mullahs, et.al. are holding the people of Iran hostage.  Hostage taking is an act of terrorism, not war.  Thus this is no longer a war, this is an anti-terrorist action.  That changes many things.. . .

Sunday, April 12, 2026

Negotiations failed.  No surprise there.  The war will undoubtedly resume shortly.  And we’re all headed to church.  How do we pray about this?. . .

Saturday, April 11, 2026

Artemis II returned home last evening.  It was pinpoint perfection – a fact noted, but unappreciated, by the media.  As with the launch I tried, desperately, to watch network coverage.  I tried them all, but in both cases I quickly found myself watching the direct NASA feed on YouTube.  The reason why was perfectly encapsulated by Anderson Cooper last evening when Neil deGrasse Tyson commented on solar radiation and Cooper said, “I literally don’t know a word you’re saying.”  The anchors and reporters for every network that covered this mission were stunningly, shamefully and sadly ignorant of the science and engineering of the mission.. . .

Friday, April 10, 2026

We are in a post-Christian era, no doubt.  But in recent years the church has moved from simply being viewed as irrelevant to being viewed as dangerous and has come under active attack.  I wrote about it Tuesday and again yesterday.  In both instances I urged the church to repent its own participation in its own demise.  The evidence keeps mounting of a church under attack – from within and from without.. . .

Thursday, April 9, 2026

On Tuesday I wrote about how young people seem to be migrating from mainline protestant churches to Catholicism.  I analyzed the trend in terms of an outlook to personal salvation and evangelicalism.  Among hardcore Evangelicals there is a term, “spiritual warfare,” and I think we need to think about it as well.  The world, it would seem, would just as soon not have churches at all.. . .

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

I find it impossible to make much sense out of things right now.  The ceasefire is apparently based on the immediate opening of the Straits of Hormuz, but from what I can tell at the moment, they are not all that “open” at this juncture about 10 hours later.  All sorts of stories circulating which is why the best we can do is follow the live updates.  We do not know, exactly, who we are negotiating with and Iran is a notably unreliable negotiating partner.  Israel supports the cessation of strikes; therefore, I presume this to be a move in the right direction – but that is about all I can do.  I did learn one very salient fact from a source yesterday that has not been widely reported.. . .

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

If you are old enough, as I am, to remember the Apollo space program then watching Artemis II circle the moon yesterday came with an odd sense of déjà vu.  Sure the lunar orbit was larger, hence the distance from Earth was farther, sure this spacecraft is far more sophisticated than Apollo was, but still it was eerily familiar.  But that is not what I am referring to in the title.  Rather I came across a startling statistic yesterday, which combined with some anecdotal data I have received in the last couple of weeks is stunning.. . .