Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Saturday, January 17, 2026

They are finding lots of new oil and gas in Texas, while California is shuttering its few remaining refineries.  That might go a long way to explain why a gallon at the pump in Texas is about half the price of that same gallon in California, taxes notwithstanding.  It also defines the Red State/Blue State divide.  Reason is returning to our environmental policy, at least in reasonable places.. . .

Friday, January 16, 2026

Tim Walz has declared war on the federal government.  Clearly the man has no understanding of the history of the Civil War or of just how the Constitution works.  This seems to be common in Blue States.. . .

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.. . .