Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Sunday, September 14, 2025

I have been quite vocal since the Kirk Assassination about the fact that the church must lead us out of this.  Mark Antonio Wright wrote a piece for National Review entitled “There’s Only One Way Back from the Brink.”  In it, he quotes, “‘Americans are not at war against each other,’ Benji Backer, a conservative activist and conservationist, wrote yesterday. ‘What we’re up against is a scary + rising minority of violent lunatics fueled by hate and division.’”  While that is absolutely true, I think it is still falling short of the mark.  Why is that minority rising and more active now?. . .

Saturday, September 13, 2025

Apparent culprit now in hand, the assassination of Charlie Kirk is rapidly evolving into one of those pivotable events that everyone will try to make sense of and onto which everyone will try and impress some meaning – but in which, inherently, there is no sense, no meaning.  The NYPost yesterday tried, briefly, to make it about Mormonism, but there is nothing there.  Some say it is about politics, some say about religion.  Some celebrate Kirk, some celebrate Christ, and some are just ugly.  All of it alienates me.. . .

Friday, September 12, 2025

I can’t shake the funk.  I mean I know from assassination.  I have been alive for JFK…1968 (MLK and RFK)…the nearly successful attempt on Ronald Reagan…most recently Trump.  Not to mention a handful of less spectacular attempts on others.  I hope and pray my generation is the only one to see this much assassination.  But Charlie Kirk is different.. . .

Thursday, September 11, 2025

I have seen pastors “tastefully” remind me of “offensive” things Charlie Kirk said.  I have seen pastors darn near deify him.  I have seen pastors declare (again) culture war.  I have seen pastors call for gun control.  And, perhaps most shamefully, I have seen pastors say nothing at all lest they ignite a “political firestorm” within their congregation.  The assassination of Charlie Kirk is an act of evil – and the church MUST address the evil if it is to remain the church.  For the church, nothing else should matter.. . .

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Save for the very dark and insane corners of the internet (and briefly MSNBC) the assassination of Charlie Kirk has been universally condemned.  Even the late night hosts lacked anything snarky to say.  There is no news to report, as the manhunt for the shooter continues.  The reporting chaos is beginning to settle and the real journalism is finally taking hold.  The calm and quiet that should have happened yesterday seems to finally be here.  Reasonable reaction to the event has begun to see the light of day.. . .

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

The news about Charlie Kirk is a few hours old now.  We know virtually nothing save that he was shot and is dead.  And yet, media is full of speculation, spin, nonsense and in a few instances, remembrances and obituaries.  And I just want them to shut up.  My instincts in times like this is to say nothing, basically because all there is to do is to mourn and pray.  But clearly given the cacophony that has arisen in these last few hours, no one knows how to to that, so this post is my likely vain attempt to lead us through it.. . .

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

My goodness it is hard to sort the news from the nonsense these days.  Depending on your source the big story of the day yesterday was something about some birthday book – which definitely was NOT news,  Or it was the Israeli strike against Hamas leadership in Qatar.  I am not even going to begin to unpack that strike – I will leave that up to three pieces from The Free Press – One – Two – Three.  The implications of this are massive. Relatedly, this is stupid.  It so deeply cheapens the Holocaust as to be disgusting.  But I think the real news is the news and the increasingly evident lack of rational thought that has lead to confusion about what is and is not news.. . .

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

A woman is brutally stabbed to death on a commuter train in Charlotte, N.C. and it sparks a political debate.  Finding the square footage of a vegetable garden – calculating a simple number – has been turned into a political battleground.  Politics has become monstrous, consuming all in its path, blurring lines between right-and-wrong, making the quite simple very complex, creating havoc wherever it raises its ugly head – which is, unfortunately, everywhere.  The murder of Iryna Zarutska, on security camera, is a whole lot of things but mostly it is tragic, lamentable and horrific.  That ought to be enough for a week or more.  But no rather than digest the awfulness of it, we start pointing fingers at political opponents.  What in the world is wrong with us?. . .

Monday, September 8, 2025

“A new law will require all public and charter school students in Tennessee to learn firearm safety….Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-6-1016 passed during the 2024 session, making Tennessee the first state to enact such a law.”  This is the most sensical response to demands for so-called gun control I have seen – ever.. . .

Sunday, September 7, 2025

Josh Hammer penned a RCP op-ed the other day entitled, “The Art Of The 80-20 Issue.”  It is about how Trump cuts right to the heart of issues and by doing so is restoring common sense to our governance.  And yet it gives me pause.. . .