The Horror That Results

Thursday, August 20, 2026

I have been writing a lot lately about the narcissism that Anthony Fauci exemplifies, the hatred of Donald Trump that destroys reason and the amorality that dominates our current culture.  Sold to us as positives, these things are rotting our nation and more importantly our souls.  The consequences of these trends can be horrific.  Two stories recently encountered drive this fact home.

The first story involves Harvard University – that great shaper of human character – or at least it used to be.  Turns out the morgue manager there sold cadavers and body parts out the back door which were then put to Buffalo Bill of Hannibal Lecter fame like uses.  Or, if you like your analogies to cover up the unthinkable in non-fictional terms, think Josef Mengele.  How do we create a person that would do such a thing?  Actually a whole bunch of people because there was a whole marketplace.  How does such a person get a job at a place like Harvard?  And the thing that truly gets to me is that this story is not front page news.  A nation that was once transfixed by the horror of Jeffery Dahmer finds this equally horrible crime below notice.  More than just the perpetrators souls are rotted here.

The other story involves the illegal use of the abortion pill, resulting in a premature, but fully formed child being born, living, in a toilet.  Thankfully someone came upon the scene and the child was rescued and survived.  The horror of encountering a living baby in a toilet discarded in such a fashion is almost beyond my comprehension.  Only a truly monstrous heart, far beyond the monstrosities of our fiction, could create such a scene.  And this event, so tragic and so horrible, is rapidly reduced to political fodder – arguing about abortion – never bothering to consider the inhumanity of the entire situation.

The forces I listed in the opening paragraph are truly causing us to lose touch with our own humanity.

People often ask how I ended up writing under the Hugh Hewitt banner.  It is a long and winding road, but it begins with 9-11. I was in California and after my wife and I headed to work I turned on the radio and there was Hugh, the person I sometimes listened to while waiting for Rush Limbaugh to start.  And so I learned of the attacks.  That day, and in the days that followed, Hugh, more than anyone else in media, understood the humanity of the story.  On the day after, he was recounting some of the stories of those in the line of fire – at one point forcing me to pull over and cry.  From Hugh I learned where the real news lay – it is in our humanity, not in our issues or thoughts or ideas – it is about people.  And just like that the show became appointment listening for me.  A lot transpired between then and now – but that is how it started.

People and their humanity is what matters most in this world – and we are crushing it.  We are allowing our humanity to be destroyed by our hatreds, self-absorption and greed.  We do not build monsters like Dr. Frankenstein, nor are we invaded by them as in countless science fiction stories, we are simply becoming them.  The horror is real and it is our own fault.