Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

If the headlines this morning mean anything, Graham Platner is done – put a fork in him – the Democratic Party is abandoning him as fast and dramatically as possible.  Politico says its over.  The Atlantic calls for him to be “cut loose.”  The NYTimes says he has been “abandoned.”  That’s a liberal trifecta if ever I saw one.  Conservative forces agree – the Platner effort is at an end. That which was once astonishingly ascendant is now at the bottom of the slide headed to the dumpster.  Man, did that happen fast.  What lessons can we learn from this?. . .

Monday, July 6, 2026

Alternate title – “There Is No Such Thing As A Free Ride.”  Alternate title – “Get Off My Lawn You Young Whippersnapper.”  As Democratic primary after Democratic primary has returned communists for congressional candidates, I looked at my wife last week and said, “It is as if the Soviet Union never existed.”  It has only been about 30 years since that scourge died a spasmic death, but I guess in today’s world 30 years is a very long time.  My perspective may be somewhat unique as I was actually in the Soviet Union for the first spasm (the failed coup attempt on Gorbachev) but while the young find history boring for those of us that lived it it is quite vivid.  It needs be remembered.. . .

Sunday, July 5, 2026

We’ve seen good Americans and bad Americans.  As the political power in this nation derives from the people, so too does its civility and incivility, its nice or not nice status, its morality or lack thereof, its goodness or evil.  America is us – it is not Donald J. Trump, or Barack Obama.  It is not Tennessee or California – it is us.  How this nation is defined and viewed is all about its people.  Who we are is the fundamental question and that means our religion matters.. . .

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: