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The grim shift in the Overton window over the last four days
Donald Trump is wasting no time inflicting damage on most fronts
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Wheat from chaff - today's edition
Now that Trump 2.0 is underway, extricating them from each other becomes a quixotic undertaking, but no less imperative
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Saturday roundup
Essays I've recently come across that strike me as having appeal to Precipice readers
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It's not looking good
VSG 2.0 is making frogs in boiling water out of people who demonstrated principles in recent memory
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On relishing the dry, unsexy work of democratic governance
It's the glue that makes the rest of the levels hold together
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We're now a week into 2025; what does that look like?
Let's start the year with one of those overall-lay-of-the-land posts
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December 2024

Thoughts on evangelizing
You often only have one shot; don't be a bonehead about it
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Invite your friends to read Precipice
Thank you for reading Precipice — your support allows me to keep doing this work.
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There will be a reckoning
Objective truth is waiting in the wings for the right moment to smack us upside the head
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Thoughts on authority
Who gets to tell us what and what not to do and why?
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Brian Thompson's murder and the question of whether health care is a right
By definition, it can't be
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The temperature of the world stage in December 2024
A look at very recent developments in South Korea, Romania, France, Ukraine and Syria - and the regions in which each is situated
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