Preface to all parts: 2019 was a great year for the Slope of Hope, with a much wider array of tools and a record number of premium subscribers. I have extracted what I consider the best posts from the year and, for the sake of everyone’s sanity, arranged links to them in a set of ten short posts.
Fourteen
Slope has another birthday
Admissions Solution
My breakthrough idea about how to solve college admissions for the rich
Torches and Pitchforks
Class warfare, bring it on!
Pendulum
Perhaps my favorite post of the year, examining political shifts over time
Captain Moral!
Captain Marvel: man or myth?
Old School Fake News
A favorite tale from the time of Abraham Lincoln
Not Guilty
The college admissions scandal hits close to home
Decision 2024
Getting several steps ahead analyzing elections to come
