Archive - Precipice

Two throbbingly inflamed world hot spots and the post-American question mark

What will the Very Stable Genius do regarding Ukraine and Israel?

Jun 18 •

Wheat from chaff- today's edition

The winnowing task gets more quixotic by the day, but no less necessary to undertake

Jun 15 •

Brian Wilson, RIP

Precipice is a reader-supported publication.

Jun 11 •

America needs you, President Madison

And Locke and Montesquieu, too

Jun 5 •

Where you at, Little Dawg? - today's edition

Today's installment in the periodic check-in on the state of my faith walk

Jun 2 •

May 2025

The mounting cost of unseriousness

If a viable West is still possible, post-America will not be part of it

May 28 •

The Very Stable Genius throws around terms like "nasty" and "terrible" to pre-empt their application to him

May 22 •

Thoughts on nostalgia

It can be a drug, and an unhelpful one at this particular time

May 14 •

The company he keeps

The people he finds impressive - and those he doesn't - are quite telling

May 8 •

Willfully ignoring

Trumpism insists you be solely focused on what the Left is doing

May 4 •

April 2025

Making one's way through a world that's now unfamiliar to all of us

Once there may have been a way to get back homeward, but it's closed off now

Apr 29 •

Leadership and heart

US presidents have brought varying degrees of humanity to the job; this is the first time one has been utterly devoid of it

Apr 21 •

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