Blog - Hugh Hewitt

Friday, May 15, 2026

We tend to think about tyranny in monolithic terms.  That a single individual, or consortium of individuals, rule tyrannically over a peoples.  But I think in modern America we have invented a new type of tyranny – a tyranny of multiple and competing bureaucracies.  I first wrote about the bureaucratic entanglements that were to plague LA from the fires as the fires burned.  Yesterday an article appeared that makes the point most vividly.. . .

Thursday, May 14, 2026

Two unrelated stories that have been floating all week make very clear that human normality is not at all like we think it is, and especially what we wish it is.. . .

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

On Monday, The Free Press published a piece by Kat Rosenfield on “suicidal empathy.”  She describes the term as “politically loaded,” but it is also useful to understand a lot of why denominationalism is dead in America.. . .

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

They played politics with covid and things got expensive, inflationary and stupid.  But Trump was not reelected, so the Trump-hating-obsessed thought it worth the price.  (Is it any wonder that increasingly people on the far left think political violence is justified?)  Hantavirus is not covid, by any stretch of the imagination.  So says Dr, Jay Bhattacharya, acting head of the CDC, and head of the NIH, and one of the few people to make sense during covid – much to the chagrin of the people then in charge.  And yet, people were starting to question his credibility over this past weekend.. . .

Monday, May 11, 2026

On Saturday we looked briefly at a piece on how the Far Left has used the internet and small donations to capture the Democratic Party.  On Sunday we looked at a recent commencement address from Nancy Pelosi and  just how over-the-top superlative her rhetoric has become.  Today we come upon a rather startling statistic (HT: Instapundit), “25% of “very liberal” Americans say violence can be justified to achieve political goals compared with 3% of “very conservative” Americans.”  One of the two major American political parties is moving towards the very liberal end of the spectrum with increasingly apocalyptic rhetoric and a strong inclination to violence to achieve its ends.  That sounds like a recipe for a problem to me.. . .

Sunday, May 10, 2026

Nancy Pelosi gave a commencement address.  Nothing unusual about that.  The speech has; however, become a bit controversial.  There is a good political reason why.  But there is also an undiscussed religious one.. . .

Saturday, May 9, 2026

Katie Porter.  Remember her?  She is still in the California gubernatorial race, but like a race car after a disastrous pit stop, she is in the the back of the field.  Her crime was cursing a staffer on a video call and it went viral.  It seems as if demeaning insult is her primary form of debate.  This week however, she launched an ad that she no doubt thought would fix everything, yet horribly missed the mark.  In the viral video she screams the f-word at a staffer that gets “in her shot.”  In the ad she kindly asks the staffers standing behind her to get out of her shot – *giggle* — *giggle.*  And there, in two short clips, is so, so much of what troubles us, and especially California, these days.. . .

Friday, May 8, 2026

Night before last south central Mississippi suffered a string of tornadoes doing immense damage.  I have family in the region that are fine – thankfully.  Last night I called local friends here in East Tennessee that also have family in the area and they had not even heard about the storms.  That, dear reader, is a massive media fail.  For the moment, Team Rubicon is likely on the way if not there already.  The United Cajun Navy is also reported on scene.  Please donate.  And now, let the media bashing commence.. . .

Thursday, May 7, 2026

The host is very worried about the 14-point deal with Iran that has the chattering classes chattering at hyper speed.  I don’t like it either, but I tend to be in the Mark Levin camp here – I don’t believe it.  The appeasers in the administration may have leaked it as a trial balloon.  Trump may have leaked it to buffalo the Iranians a bit.  Or a thousand other things.  Who knows, but it has an air of significance and that is troubling.  But then, I am deeply pessimistic about negotiations – period, full stop.. . .

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

As the military conflict with Iran has progressed to its current state it has been quite revelatory concerning our domestic politics.  It is not just that is widened the left/right divide, blah, blah, blah.  We need to think about it in far more serious terms. Although…. . .