About Hugh Hewitt

Professor Hugh Hewitt is a law professor and broadcast journalist whose nationally syndicated radio show is heard in more than 120 cities across the United States every weekday afternoon. Professor Hewitt is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, and has been teaching Constitutional Law at Chapman University Law School since it opened in 1995. Professor Hewitt is a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News Network, and MSNBC, and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He has received three Emmys for his work as co-host of the ground-breaking Life & Times program, a nightly news and public affairs program that aired on the Los Angeles PBS affiliate, KCET, from 1992 until 2007. Professor Hewitt also conceived and hosted the 1996 PBS series, Searching for God in America. He is the author of eight books, including two New York Times best-sellers. His most recent books are Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That is Changing Your World and A Mormon in the White House?

Professor Hewitt is best known as the host of his radio show, which has an audience estimated at more than 2 million listeners every week. Since its debut in July of 2000, Professor Hewitt has conducted groundbreaking interviews with government officials from both parties and widely respected analysts, authors and pundits. In a 2006 profile of Hewitt for The New Yorker, the dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism told his readers that Hewitt was “the most influential conservative you have never heard of.”

Hewitt writes daily for his blog, HughHewitt.com, which is among the most visited political blogs in the U.S. He is also the Executive Editor of Townhall.com.

Professor Hewitt served for nearly six years in the Reagan Administration in a variety of posts, including Assistant Counsel in the White House and Special Assistant to two Attorneys General. Since returning to California in 1989 to oversee the construction of the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Hewitt has served as a member of the California Arts Council, the South Coast Air management District, and the Orange County Children and Families Commission. He and his wife live in Orange County.

Hewitt’s passions are the Cleveland Browns and Indians, Ohio State and Notre Dame college football and running.

Regular Guests

Weekly Guests | Frequent Contributors

Weekly Guests

Fred Barnes
Editor, The Weekly Standard and one of Fox News Channels Beltway Boys
Politics

Peter Beinart
Editor, The New Republic and Columnist for TRB
Politics

John Campbell
Congressman
California politics

Erwin Chemerinsky
Professor at USC Law School and one of the Smart Guys
Expertise: Law

Terry Eastland
Publisher, The Weekly Standard and Columnist for Dallas News
Politics and Law

David Dreier
U.S. House of Representatives
Chairman House Rules Committee
Politics

John Eastman
Professor of Law, Chapman University Law School and one of the Smart Guys
Law

Emmett of the Unblinking Eye
Movies

Frank Gaffney
President
Center for Security Policy and Columnist for The Washington Times
Military and National Defense

Morton Kondracke
Editor for Roll Call Magazine and one of Fox News Channels' Beltway Boys
Politics

Howard Kurtz
Media Correspondent for The Washington Post
Media Critic

James Lileks
Blogger, Lileks.com

Kathryn Jean Lopez
Editor, National Review Online
Politics and Cultural Issues

Harold Myerson
Editor, The American Prospect
Politics

John Podhoretz
Columnist, The New York Post
Politics

Matthew Yglesias
Columnist, American Prospect Magazine and Blogger

John McIntyre
Principal Contributor, Real Clear Politics
Politics

Ken Mehlman
Campaign Manager, Bush-Cheney 2004
Politics

Claudia Rosett
Contributing Columnist to The Wall Street Journal and OpinionJournal.com
Foreign Affairs

Mark Steyn
Syndicated Columnist: See steynonline.com

Frequent Contributors:

Professor Stephen Bainbridge
Professor of Law at UCLA and blogger
Chair and Grand Vizier of Wine Guys, California State Sommelier's Council

Michael Barone
Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report
Domestic Politics

Elliott Cohen
American Enterprise Institute
Foreign Affairs

Rich Galen
Blogger, Mullings.com
Politics

Ken Grubbs
Editor & Chief, National Journalism Center
Media Critic

Victor Davis Hanson
Professor, Fresno State and Columnist for The National Review
Foreign Affairs

Stephen Hayes
Columnist for The Weekly Standard
Politics

Mickey Kaus
Blogger, kausfiles.com
Politics

Charles Krauthammer
Columnist for The Washington Post
Domestic and Foreign Affairs

Bill Kristol
Editor, The Weekly Standard
Politics

Stanley Kurtz
Columnist for The National Review
Foreign Affairs

Michael Ledeen
American Enterprise Institute
Foreign Affairs

Grover Norquist
President for Americans for Tax Reform
Economic Policy

Bill Owens
Governor, State of Colorado

Tim Pawlenty
Governor, State of Minnesota

Virginia Postrel
Correspondent for Vpostrel.com
Futurist

Bill Sammon
White House Correspondent for The Washington Times
Politics

Richard Norton Smith
Kansas University, Director for Dole Center of Politics
Presidential Historian

Tony Snow
Host, Fox News Sunday
Politics

Thomas Ricks
Military Correspondent for The Washington Post
Military

David Allen White
Shakespeare and Classical Music
U.S. Naval Academy
e-mail: dwhite@gwmail.usna.edu

Dan Williams
Fiction Correspondent

Byron York
Correspondent, The National Review
Judicial Review

Both Elliott Cohen and Michael Ledeen are Scholars for American Enterprise Institute