Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

It is always winter, but never Christmas.  No one dare speak a word against the tyrant ruler of the kingdom.  But eventually the whispers begin, “Aslan is on the move.”  Santa shows up!  The snow begins to melt.  The tyrant witch is defeated.  If you do not know the story, shame on you.  We seem poised at a moment, after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, where there are rumors of something stirring – where maybe, just maybe God is moving in a big way.. . .

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

I have been a resident of East Tennessee for two and three quarters years now, but I still  suffer from a deep-seated “California flinch.”  What I mean by “California flinch” is when I dare express a conservative opinion, I expect to be attacked so I flinch to try and avoid the punch.  In early September I mentioned a stream of DMs I had been receiving.  Of course they were from California.  I was being verbally attacked despite the fact that I had not spoken to this individual since I left California.  The flinch is real because the attacks are real.. . .

Monday, September 15, 2025

Saturday just past I wrote, “One man killed another.  That will never make sense.  Motivation does not matter – it is just an evil act….Any meaning we try to assign to these events is, in some sense, an expression of narcissism….”  But I wonder if anybody really understands?. . .

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.. . .