*Note: This story was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on December 17, 2019. It is coverage of Strategy Strikes Back and Winning Westeros from a local journalist named Seth Boster. An image of the column is included below.
*Note: This essay (a heavily-edited version of “How Manitou Springs – and democracy – lost this week”) was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on December 17, 2019. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Democracy lost, 4-3, in a Manitou Springs City Council vote last…
*Note: A slightly edited version of this essay was published in the Pikes Peak Bulletin print edition on December 12, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below. Democracy lost, 4-3, in a Manitou Springs City Council vote Tuesday night. In closing discussion, Mayor Ken Jaray announced the motion…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on December 8, 2019. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. This past week I went to see some Gophers and Badgers tussle in a sleet-storm, and it was worth every second. It was a snowy…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on November 28, 2019. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. I sat next to a snot-nosed kid on my completely-full holiday flight and I loved it. Truth in advertising, she was my own daughter, but…
*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. Two centuries ago, Napoleon embodied warfare’s changing character. This conqueror of Europe took advantage of new ways of thinking about warfare and its organization to bend Europe to his will. Of course, it wasn’t just the French emperor driving these…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on November 11, 2019. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. The American Legion is turning one hundred years old, and as it celebrates a century of service, it faces ruthless membership decline. To confront this…
*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. Once you’ve seen a person hung, drawn, and quartered, you’ve seen it enough. Mostly because you never want to think about it again. Yet the BBC/HBO miniseries Gunpowder, starring Kit Harrington (of Game of Thrones fame) as Robert Cateseby, draws…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on November 3, 2019. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. “The biggest argument against democracy is a five-minute discussion with the average voter,” said the great Winston Churchill. Inadvisable as it may be, I’d like…
*Note: This essay was published in the Pikes Peak Bulletin print edition on October 31, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below. The MACH matters because it’s how we hold on to what makes Manitou Springs special. It matters, not just to the hundreds of our neighbors that…