The following is an op-ed piece that I wrote for KSL as posted this afternoon. SALT LAKE CITY — I’m sure there was a moment when Traci Gundersen wondered if making a bar complaint against Utah Attorney General John Swallow was a wise step for her career. As far as I can tell, she’s […]
Tact: a lesson in politics from Mike Mower
April 23, 2013 by
Tonight, I caught up with Utah Governor Gary Herbert’s chief of staff, Mike Mower, at a Salt Lake County Young Republican meeting. Mower had a few simple pieces of advice that I thought were interesting. Rather than push conservative talking points or take the opportunity to push the Governor’s agenda (ok, other than a plug […]
G is for “greatest British peacetime prime minister”
April 8, 2013 by
Unless you’ve been under a rock today, you’ve heard the news that Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister, has died. She was eulogized by current U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron as “the greatest British peacetime prime minister.” Rest in peace, Margaret Thatcher. Since I’m no expert on Britain’s “Iron Lady,” here’s a few hits from […]
For Lincoln’s birthday, a book recommendation: Crisis of the House Divided by Harry Jaffa
February 12, 2013 by
Today is Lincoln’s birthday. Might I suggest a book on the man who may have been our greatest president? It might be said of Abraham Lincoln, born on this day in 1809, that if he had not existed, we would have needed to invent him. With very rare exception, no person in American political history […]
Review | HHhH by Laurent Binet
February 7, 2013 by
HHhH may be one of the most intriguing novels I have read in recent memory. Translated from French, its title is based on a German sentence: “Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich”, or “Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich”. It is the story of the 1942 attack in Prague on Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most dangerous men in […]
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