Matt Lewis

1 day ago | mattklewis.substack.com | Matt Lewis

Welcome back! Today, I’m thrilled to share highlights from my recent podcast with New York Times columnist and friend, David French. We covered a lot of ground — faith, politics, military scandals, and the alarming erosion of due process. So pour something strong and buckle up. David opened with a distinction from one of his recent columns that feels less like analysis and more like a Rorschach test for the American church: Are you part of a “Fear the World” church or a “Love Your Neighbor” church?

2 days ago | mattklewis.substack.com | Matt Lewis

The other day, a Texas congressman named Brian Babin suggested that America should take a page from El Salvador dictator Nayib Bukele and “fire” judges. I responded by asking whether Babin would support future president Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez firing judges who have the temerity to stand in her way. By tweet was an intellectual exercise in futility. Babin didn’t respond, and why would he?

3 days ago | mattklewis.substack.com | Matt Lewis

Here we go again. For the second time, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — a man whose chief qualifications appear to be a chiseled jawline, a job at Fox News, and a boundless confidence unencumbered by expertise — allegedly leaked details about upcoming military strikes in Yemen over a Signal chat. This time, he helpfully shared them with his wife and brother. Family values, I suppose.

1 week ago | mattklewis.substack.com | Matt Lewis

You wanna get rich in America? Forget tech startups, forget lottery tickets, forget pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. That’s for suckers. The real money’s in Congress — just get elected and let the sweet, sweet insider info start rollin’ in. Take Georgia’s own Marjorie Taylor Greene. She’s under the microscope again — this time for conveniently scooping up tens of thousands in stocks from little mom-and-pop outfits like Apple, Amazon, FedEx, and Nike.

1 week ago | thehill.com | Matt Lewis

Welcome back to the United States of Trump, where the Constitution is like a cocktail napkin with some scribbles on it, where a unanimous Supreme Court ruling is given the same deference as a customer service complaint, and where the president’s daily intelligence briefing requires three Big Macs and a television tuned to Fox News. If you thought we’d hit peak insanity, buckle up. Monday might go down as the most disturbing day yet in Trump’s second term.