*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on July5, 2020. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. In extraordinary times, the ordinary can be salvation. The thirsty need water, the locked-down want fresh air, the darkened desire light. I sure did. While shaving…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on March 10, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Train travel is entirely another world of transportation that all Coloradans (and Springers) should experience. All of us…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on September 13, 2018. It can also be found online here. The empty chair representing Google at last week’s Congressional testimony in Washington spoke volumes. The nation called, and Google opted out. This might otherwise be excused as an oversight. But it came on the…
*Note: This essay was published in the Wall Street Journal print edition on April 16, 2018. It can also be found online here. More than 3,000 Google employees have signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai, saying that the company “should not be in the business of war.” Specifically, they object to Project Maven, Google’s partnership…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on December 13, 2017. It can also be found online here.
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on September 26, 2017. It can also be found online here. The X is here. iPhone X (pronounced “ten”) arrived last week to the fanfare we now expect from Apple. It represents the next smartphone generation; pocket-sized do-everything machines that have become part of daily…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on September14, 2017. It can also be found online here. Amazon just announced it wants to add a second headquarters to its current Seattle home. The company is looking for a city with a population over one million, with a high quality of life, strong…
*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. Yes, you read that right. The West’s roaring lion, the British Bulldog, he of “blood, toil, tears, and sweat”—Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill—“customarily wore underwear made of pale pink silk.” We’ll come back to that later. I was recently asked to…
*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. The scary/cool juxtaposition of the recent global ransomware attack with Google’s annual developer’s conference should, if nothing else, prompt us to reevaluate our relationship with the digital world. Google’s event (and the settled consensus) tells us the information age enables…
*Note: This essay was originally published at The National Interest on February 8, 2017. US Secretary of Defense James Mattis spent the tail end of last week in Seoul and Tokyo conferring with allies about the extreme challenge posed by a belligerently nuclear North Korea. When he gets back, Secretary Mattis should provide President Donald Trump with an option to straitjacket…