Blog - Hugh Hewitt

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.. . .

Monday, January 5, 2026

The strategic implications of the US capture of Maduro are reaching much farther than most people imagine.  The mainstream media is so blinded with Trump hatred that they cannot see what a brilliant stroke this actually is.  There is more than one way to win a war.  Reagan/Bush won the Cold War in a way I never could have predicted and did not foresee.  I think Trump may be doing the same thing with the War on Terror, begun by Bush 43, which like the Cold War before it has been dismissed and not prosecuted  by intervening administrations.. . .

Sunday, January 4, 2026

I entered the weekend expecting to write this Sunday morning, the first of the new year, about how alike Christian ministry and politics are since both require that you first raise money and how often that unfortunate fact results in corruption.  Not to mention the deep confusion between religion and politics that haunts us.  And then the capture of Maduro happened and the weekend fundamentally changed – the world fundamentally changed.  But has this post changed?  Not as much as you might think.. . .