Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Sunday, July 26, 2026

It was disturbing reading the headlines this morning.  Jews are hated in NYC.  Apparently, Gays are hated in Berlin.  Unsurprisingly, conservatives are hated in California.  We have passed so-called “hate crime laws” to try and get a handle on things, but I think we miss the point.  I am not sure the problem is hate directly.. . .

Saturday, July 25, 2026

Jim Geraghty chose yesterday to go on at some length about why superhero movies make a lot more money than opening weekend box office might indicate and to note that predictions of their demise just might be premature.  His primary point is that such movies produce a number of income streams not reflected in box office numbers, which is an excellent point.  I would hasten to add that these characters have survived for almost 100 years now in print indicating that they have far more life in them than one might expect.  Of course the cost of producing a comic book is such that you can absorb a failure and make adjustments – not so much with multi-million dollar movie budgets.  And yet, I think an analysis of what makes the characters so enduring might be worthwhile.. . .

Friday, July 24, 2026

…may just be our humanity.  The Boys is a comic book come Amazon Prime series in the superhero genre.  It is at once an exercise in licentiousness, seeing how much one can gross out an audience, and a deep and disturbing look at our natural tendencies.  Its essential question is, “What would happen if people gained superpowers without an Uncle Ben to teach them that ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ or  Pa Kent to imbue their adopted son with truth, justice and the American way.”  The answer is not at all pretty, and yet disturbingly realistic.. . .

Thursday, July 23, 2026

All signs point to an impending escalation of the military conflict with Iran.  Forces are being forward deployed, B1B bombers are getting involved (again) and discussions of “regime change” have resurfaced.  Certainly that is the…big…news of this morning.  But it is news from our university campuses that really moved me this morning as I read something I never thought I would see.  The good news is some, not much, but some, of the anti-semitism is being brought to rein.  However, it was one particular story this morning that made my heart sink to the bottom of my feet.. . .

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

The continued coverage of the problematic revitalization of the reflecting pool in D.C. is “The Dumbest Expression of T.D.S.”  I hesitate to call it “political theater” because the inception of the project was genuine, the problems have arisen in the execution and media coverage has made it controversial.  It is not a genuine scandal in any real sense, no politician made it happen for the sake of capturing headlines.  “Clickbait” is probably the best term for it, but it is politically motivated clickbait as media clearly intends to use it to embarrass the president.  But politicians are learning from the media.. . .

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

The older I get the more I realize that William Shatner’s TV version of James T. Kirk in Star Trek, The Original Series (ST:TOS) was awfully wise about how people actually work.  Only the old, like myself, or the nerdy, like myself, pay much attention to the  ST:TOS anymore.  The stories have been expanded and retold.  The multiverse has been introduced and it has been 60 years.  It was very much a product of the late 1960’s when it was released.  Many of the most memorable stories are stories of the old, staid, Captain and his crew encountering young, idealistic, aliens or scattered earthlings – either in pursuit of some utopian dream – only to have Captain Kirk point out that “Man stagnates if he has no ambition,” as their utopian ideals crash upon some rock or the other – or against Kirk and his starship.  It seems that despite history and the many speeches of Captain Kirk about our need for ambition and struggle, we still chase utopia.. . .

Monday, July 20, 2026

Back in May I made mention of the arrest and conviction of a pastor for preaching near what is known in Northern Ireland as an “abortion safe access zone.”  Things took a turn for the worse this past week as law enforcement in the UK released guidelines for the enforcement of the law that establishes these zones.  It was covered on Fox and Townhall.  It is not a pretty picture.. . .

Sunday, July 19, 2026

The trend we have experienced in recent decades – a trend towards normalizing certain kinds of social wrongs – has reached a new apotheosis.  At least it has done so in Great Britain and it threatens much more than the apparent.. . .

Saturday, July 18, 2026

Much was made in the news yesterday of the announcement that Marvel Comic is moving its HQ from NYC, where it was born, to California.  Virtually everything in that article just linked is pure PR nonsense.  Disney bought Marvel a while ago.  As many of us feared, the comics have suffered – severely, becoming captive to the movies instead of being their own creative entity.  Risky story telling has died, much as the innovative animation that was once Mickey Mouse has given way to cheaply produced corporate garbage.  With the advent of digital art, comic book creation has gone virtually totally remote.  HQ is just bookkeeping and can be squeezed into empty space, which is plentiful, in the Disney Studios.  Why pay NYC rent?. . .

Friday, July 17, 2026

You probably know somebody like my neighbor.  Given that there were only two landline phones in the neighborhood, the phone company had quit maintaining the lines.  He was one of those two, but the lack of maintenance had rendered that phone so unreliable that he broke down last week and got a mobile.  He got a flip-phone stating quite emphatically that he did not want a smart phone.  His complaint is not the usual complaints about spying that smartphones carry with them as a matter of course.  Rather he simply finds smartphones too complicated.  To his mind there is nothing “better” about a smart phone.. . .