Pat Murphy - Calgary's Business

The failure of an American president to compromise

Posted by Pat Murphy | Jan 18, 2019

Woodrow Wilson failed to accept the limitations and checks explicit in the American democratic system

Posted by Pat Murphy | Jan 11, 2019

With ambitions far beyond what you’d expect from a rip-and-run raider, he apparently believed he was more than a mere mortal

Posted by Pat Murphy | Jan 2, 2019

Pierre Trudeau lost favour with voters and ended up with a minority government. A similar fate may await his son

Posted by Pat Murphy | Dec 12, 2018

The battle over Brexit isn’t the equivalent of the Second World War, but the outcome is shaping up to be a disaster on its own terms

Posted by Pat Murphy | Dec 5, 2018

The late U.S. president had an authenticity problem that would never quite go away