Blog - Hugh Hewitt

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.. . .

Monday, April 6, 2026

Disturbing news, “Over half of all confirmed hate crimes in New York City in the first quarter of 2026 were antisemitic in nature, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed in a press conference this weekend.  Confirmed hate crimes rose overall city-wide by 11.7 percent this quarter, with 55% of them confirmed identified as antisemitic (78 out of 143 crimes), despite Jews making up only approximately 10% of NYC’s population, Tisch added.”  WOW!. . .

Sunday, April 5, 2026

He is Risen!  He is Risen Indeed!  It is a cry that changed the world. We literally measure time by it, before and after.  But why did the world have to change to begin with?. . .

Saturday, April 4, 2026

Here we sit, between Good Friday and Easter.  The world is dark, very dark, but hope is just around the corner.  But before we examine the Christian narrative of this weekend in a new modern light, just a note on the war.  The host is wall-to-wall war coverage and I am happy to leave it to him.  That said, there is currently much discussion of ground troops.  Other than the media and Democrat desire to play political “gotcha,”  this one is an easy call.  The point of this war is to eradicate an evil from the face of this planet.  The tenaciousness of the Islamic regime in Iran in the face of utter destruction is evidence of just how evil they truly are.  Even Hitler had the common sense to kill himself by this point.  If ground troops are needed to eradicate this evil, then so be it.  This is not hard.  What is hard is living with the reality of Easter.. . .

Friday, April 3, 2026

In 1991, when I visited the Soviet Union (Yes, that Soviet Union – the bad guys) I ended up in a long discussion with water quality officials in what was then known as Leningrad, now St. Peterburg, on over-regulation.  They talked of how they were so heavily regulated that compliance was, in some cases, mutually exclusive as agencies did not speak to each other and issued contradictory orders.  I commented that if we were not careful in the United States we were headed to the same place.  Sadly, I was not nay-saying, I was prophetic.. . .

Thursday, April 2, 2026

It would be difficult to describe just how important America’s early manned space program was in my youth.  I remember taking what then passed for a “portable” TV to my second grade class so we could watch John Glenn’s first orbital mission.  I remember staying up very, very late to watch Neil Armstrong’s “one small step” and a hour or so later my parents emerging from their bedroom to force me to go to bed despite a couple hours of time walking about the moon remaining.  I recall my heavy disappointment when I learned my eyesight prevented me from ever reaching military flight status, let alone the astronaut program.  I know my studies in science were inspired by those programs.  I proposed experiments in a NASA-run student program for Skylab and got my name in the paper for the very first time.  Last evening it all returned in a rush as the United States once again launched people into space, headed for the moon.. . .

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

On Monday I learned that Politico, which I do not read unless someone else tells me there is something I ought to look at, is deeply antisemitic.  The current rise of antisemitism in our culture is deeply troubling.  It is a portent of problems far deeper than any government policy or stance.  We sacrificed so much to overcome the ugly antisemitism that was the Nazis.  We worked so hard to overcome the racism that defined this nation for so long.  How could we slip back into it?. . .

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

The news yesterday, “Los Angeles County saw the largest decline of any county in the United States in 2025, according to new census data published on March 26.”  Meanwhile, “A major Wall Street powerhouse is weighing a southern escape as New York City’s new mayor talks about soaking big business with taxes, according to a report published Sunday.”  And so the race is on – two major metropolises, both deep blue, vying to see which one can vacate and die the most rapidly.  Predictable as it is, it is still sad.  And the sadness is only intensified by the knowledge that such decline is preventable.. . .