Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Saturday, August 15, 2026

I spent the week in Los Angeles and I wish that the title for this post was entirely hyperbolic, but sadly, portions of LA are a hellscape and even when you are not in those portions, the place is still dingy and dull and worn out.  This post provides a nice perspective.  And this song, heard every ten minutes or so when I moved there in the mid-80’s, is now never, ever heard.  I was there calling on what few clients I have left, so I was talking and learning.  There are a couple of lessons from the visit that need recording.. . .

Thursday, August 13, 2026

So yesterday I am “driving” around Southern California.  I put that word in scare quotes because traffic in SoCal is such that for the first time in my life I thought a self-driving car might be a useful thing as I crawled along at 10mph in bumper-to-bumper traffic.  Anyway, I hear a news report about the California Attorney General accusing Paramount of “blackmail” in its threat to leave California as the state attempts to block its merger with Warner Bros.  Let’s see, California business operates under a regulatory load, combined with heavy-handed enforcement, sufficient to invoke words like “hostage-taking” and “extortion” and a business doing what businesses do is accused of “blackmail?”  At some point the irony reached Twilight Zone levels.. . .

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Life finds me in Southern California as I write.  Been a here a couple of days now with a couple more to go and the place is as miserable as it was when I left, maybe even a bit more so.  Traffic’s worse, homelessness is still everywhere, but there is one thing that is notably different.. . .

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Sometimes, geek world can be quite instructive.  I recently ran into a discussion of the new Spidey Flick, Spider-Man: Brand New Day that is chock full of spoilers, a full reading of which requires a very broad knowledge of both the movie based MCU and countless comic book series and loses itself in all this nerdy minutiae – hiding what is the very serious point.  The point is a moral one and it is vitally important.. . .

Monday, August 10, 2026

This’ll be quick – I have to head to the airport in about 20 minutes.  It’s been 25 years since Instapundit made blogging “a thing.”  I started about the same time.  And it has me wondering…. . .

Sunday, August 9, 2026

I find myself deeply worried this Sunday morning.  As I discussed on Friday, the election of Abdul El-Sayed as the Democratic candidate for Senator in Michigan is a very clear sign that much in this nation is currently motivated by hatred.  Hatred that rots the soul and the body politic.  Hatred that opens the door to all sorts of personal corruption and makes this nation less than it ought to be. . . .

Saturday, August 8, 2026

Corrosives are funny things.  In some circumstances they can simply melt an entire structure.  In others they attack only a few molecules in the structural matrix, weakening the structure just enough to let other forces destroy it, even though the structure looks quite healthy from the outside.  We talked about hatred as a corrosive for our culture and our souls yesterday.  Watching this corrosive work its way through us right now is both fascinating and horrifying.  Let’s look at the latest.. . .

Friday, August 7, 2026

With the election of Abdul El-Sayed as the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan things just turned existential.  Yes, candidates like El-Sayed and his apparent brother-in-arms Hasan Piker are a direct threat to our constitutional government.  When two commentators like the host and Jim Geraghty agree that more than a mere Senate seat is in the dock in Michigan this November that simply must be the case. I personally think there is more than merely our constitutional order at stake.. . .

Thursday, August 6, 2026

Right now, the eastern half of the state of Washington is ablaze in a scene eerily reminiscent of the Los Angeles wildfires of January 2025.  These coastal states, California and Washington, share in common very liberal politics dominated by Democrats.  Democrats so focused on creating equity, and other quite tempting sounding liberal ideals, that they have forgotten to do things like maintain their ability to prevent and fight fire.  Then, as LA is demonstrating rather dramatically, they become so focused on their ideals, and the bureaucracies they create to enforce them, that they simply cannot rebuild from such a disaster.  It is as if they are graduate students in literature that cannot spell.. . .

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

For most of my life, a “fad” was harmless.  When I was in high school, “streaking” was the latest and greatest thing.  Of course, there had always been fads in clothing; what I wore without shame in college would be considered a costume these days.  And of course, speaking of college – The Pet Rock.  When a joke becomes a fad, there is money to be made.  But like most things in this world – fads are turning darker and darker.. . .