Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Saturday, July 4, 2026

Yesterday I noted that America is fundamentally the same as it was 50 years ago, yet the national anniversary celebrations are quite different, this celebration being quite muted compared to the last.  I noted that the biggest historical difference was covid and that it taught one, perhaps two, generations to wait for permission to step out and to rely on the nation to do things that were essentially their responsibility.  But if individual Americans are the problem, so are they the solution.. . .

Friday, July 3, 2026

For those of us old enough to remember the nation’s 200th, the contrast between then and this 250th is truly startling. One is forced to ponder the difference.  Given that we have essentially two days to observe this momentous anniversary (today is the official “day off” and tomorrow is the actual holiday) I shall commemorate the event in two posts.  Today I’ll look at the down side of the contrast and tomorrow I’ll look at the upside.  Also, given the unusual holiday weekend, I’ll do the usual leftover round-up today instead of tomorrow.. . .

Thursday, July 2, 2026

The Washington Times carried a piece this week about proposed rules changes at EPA designed to make the Clean Air Act easier to work with.  It is stultifying and I spent my professional life dealing with those rules among others.. . .

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Few questions have baffled my generation more than, “How did a devil like Hitler get power to begin with?”  We are the right age to have heard all about WWII from those that lived it, but also to have witnessed the great liberalization of the Civil Rights Movement.  In the end the Civil Rights Movement was about merit over race, but it sure has not ended up there.  Colorado elected another antisemite in yesterday’s primaries.  The Democratic slate is starting to be pretty crowded with such people.  At the end of my life I am seeing a return of that which I thought had been rejected.  It is depressing and frightening.. . .

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Iran has lost the war on a military level.  Unquestionably.  But there is a lot more to winning a war than simply crushing the military.  For example, Japan had many soldiers on remote Pacific Islands than continued to fight WWII long after it was over.  Iran appears to be just as intransigent, but at a much higher cost to the world and to its citizenry.  They are, in fact, raising the stakes at every opportunity presented to them.  It is, simply, a test of wills.. . .

Monday, June 29, 2026

We live in a consumeristic society.  If you asked me what was the biggest problem the church in America faces, it is that we consume church instead of join it – we go to be entertained instead of to be improved.  And many churches, needing funds, decide to supply something to be consumed instead of do what church is supposed to do.  But we are also being consumed.. . .

Sunday, June 28, 2026

So yesterday we discussed, briefly, the role that labels and tribes are playing in our politics and sports.  There is but a single solution to this dilemma:

Saturday, June 27, 2026

This is just a quick thought, not a detailed analysis.  Is identity tribalism now everything?. . .

Friday, June 26, 2026

Our world is full of fables about being convinced of untruths.  The Emperor Has New Clothes tells us about how easily we can fall prey to con men and how easily groupthink can aid that process.  Chicken Little tells us about how easily we can be fooled into thinking we are doing a good thing only to end up as a meal.  The Boy Who Cried Wolf teaches us that uttering falsehoods too often can mean we are not heard even when we speak truth.  So many classic and ancient lessons that we seem never to learn.. . .

Thursday, June 25, 2026

No, I’m not talking about Tuesday’s commie infested elections – I am talking about literal shaking.  Yesterday started with a moderate 5.6 quake in remote northern California.  While no structural damage has been reported from that quake, there have been a few minor injuries.  The day ended with two much, much larger quakes, each measuring 7.2, in Japan and Venezuela.  Japan reported some damage and injuries.  The Venezuelan quake created massive damage with over 100 dead and thousands injured.  The quakes may or may not be related – it’ll take a long time for the seismographs, computers and geologists to figure that out.  Anyway you cut it, yesterday was a bad day.. . .