Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Thursday, January 15, 2026

Good guys versus bad guys – that’s a story – especially when the good guys win even with the odds overwhelmingly against them.  But the stories we get anymore are not so structured.  Our good guys are flawed (think drunken, fat Thor in the the Avengers movies) and our bad guys are victims somehow (think Darth Vader or the Scarlet Witch in Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.)  Anymore no one is good, no one is bad, circumstances just put two parties at odds with each other and we are supposed to enjoy the fight.  I wrote the other day that Our Myths Matter because they should reinforce what is good, but anymore our myths are not about right and wrong, probably only better or worse.  Apparently the news media thinks the same way….. . .

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Twelve thousand killed…12,000 Iranians killed by Iranian forces.  The scenes out of that country are horrific. (Warning, warning, warning)  Look, I know the other guys I mentioned in the headlines killed by the millions and this number is tiny in comparison, but this is just getting started, and this is just in the course of a few days – those monsters had years.  We stand horrified by guys like Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dahmer that killed by the dozens, but somehow when the numbers start to get this big, we are numbed to some extent.  It is as if the evil is simply beyond our comprehension.. . .

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

If we learned anything from the pandemic it is that science is not our savior.  It can be wrong.  Moreover, science does not consider everything.  While it projected deaths and disaster, it failed to account for what would come from the social upheavals created by our efforts to stave off its projections.  We learned that science is but one tool in the leadership arsenal and we learned that somethings are simply beyond science’s ability to get right.  Putting man on the moon or nuclear weaponry are relatively easy problems compared to the science necessary to deal with things like epidemiology or climatology.  Big data statistically analyzed is not the same thing as the physical certainty of a pitched baseball.  But some, it seems, have not learned these lessons.. . .

Monday, January 12, 2026

Before his death, I had a sporadic, long-standing debate with friend of the show, and literature professor, David Allen White about comic books.  I had heard David lecture on the great historical epics and argued that comic books sat in the same place in American culture as The Odyssey did in ancient Greece or The Iliad in Rome.  That these stories embodied and passed forward the basic values of the culture.  David was dismissive.  His dismissiveness was understandable as for every great comic book there are hundreds of pure entertainment dredge.  Nonetheless, when comics are gotten right they really do rise to the level of art.  New evidence has appeared that just might make my case for me.. . .

Sunday, January 11, 2026

I read a fascinating article yesterday about Gen Z and money.  It paints a picture of hopelessness, describing Gen Z’ers as “doom spenders,” and uses other unhappy words like “disillusionomics,”  “economic nihilism” and “money dysmorphia.”  It paints a picture of a hopeless generation.  I wrote about it just before Christmas.  I discussed then that the mindset not only lacked hope, but gratitude for what they did have, and that both hopelessness and ingratitude were rooted in the absence of faith.. . .

Saturday, January 10, 2026

The host’s interview of the President a couple of days ago was great.  (video…transcript)  The interview opened with Iran.  Much has happened in that repressive nation since and it puts the President’s statements in that interview on the line.. . .

Friday, January 9, 2026

While we are “celebrating” the anniversary of fires, we cannot forget the Moss Landing fire of last January in Monterey County, CA.  Unlike the wildfires of Southern California, this was a “Battery Energy Storage System” (BESS) fire – basically an EV fire writ large, and we all know how very nasty those are.  Inextinguishable they must be contained and left to burn themselves out and they leave behind a toxic, nasty mess.  Moss Landing has become one of the bigger projects of the E.P.A.’s list of clean-ups.  And yet, the installation of these type of facilities continues apace.. . .

Thursday, January 8, 2026

Pretty much everybody but the rabid few figured this out by end of day yesterday, The Veep had it right, so I think we can set the Minnesota thing aside for now.  Yesterday also marked the beginning of the “days of mourning” as it marked the first anniversary of the first day of the devastating  Southern California wildfires.  And largely that is what is happening – mourning.  Churches are holding services of remembrance, media is full of anecdotal stories of loss and lives forever altered.  And there is nothing wrong with any of that, but something is missing – the other side of that equation is strangely quiet.  They are still talking about rebuilding and community spirit, but little is actually happening.. . .

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

It has been reported for at least the last twelve hours that the city of Abdanan in Iran has fallen to the protesters and is no longer in the control of the Mullahs and the IRGC.  Sources as reliable as the Majority in the House Foreign Affairs Committee are reporting it and FoxNews has picked it up.  Smaller internet sources are reporting it.  But I cannot find a breath of it on any of the major news sites, foreign or domestic, other than Fox – not a hint, not a rumor report, nothing.  I get it, the reports are unconfirmed and typically the Mullahs let protesters have their way for a while before they crush them – but never in the history of the Islamic Republic have protesters seized a city – this is news.  And it is not being reported.. . .

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Mark Kelly, after participating in the heinous “unlawful orders” video, censured and perhaps losing rank and retirement benefits from the Navy.  Oops.  While you are free to speak your mind, there may be consequences.  Of course, this being the modern world, I doubt this move will mean much to Kelly personally.  I would imagine his Naval pension is an insignificant portion of his income and this will only bolster his support among the left-wing “base.”  But, unlike so many idiots that have come before him, he faces consequences for his actions.  If only we could be consistent about it.. . .