Principle versus pragmatism
On Tuesday last week, Thomas Massey lost the Kentucky 04 Republican House primary. He lost it because President Donald Trump did not like Massey’s opposition to his policies in Congress, and because he is the primary driver behind the Epstein
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No, you did not just “break the laws of physics”
The quality of online content is taking a nosedive, and it’s not only artificial intelligence that’s to blame.
The AI backlash in the West is growing and China is thrilled
At the University of Arizona commencement this month, Eric Schmidt, the much-admired ex-CEO of Google, began telling graduates that artificial intelligence would reshape classrooms, hospitals and professions. The boos came back immediately, loud and clear. He was not alone.
Redi Tlhabi is a threat to our national intelligence
Long before Redi Tlhabi emptied her head to write a neurotic article entitled “Don’t hand South Africa’s democracy to Elon Musk for 30 pieces of silver”, curious things were happening in Washington DC, where Tlhabi and a man called Phillip
DA wins its first Gauteng township election
Hermann Pretorius and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the DA's historic win in a township ward in Gauteng. They also discuss what non-racialism means in our Constitution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eQJ3n6y_dE
The BEE billionaires who should “hang their heads in shame”
In mid-May 2026 President Cyril Ramaphosa told Parliament that critics of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) “should hang their heads in shame”. Though they constantly claimed that BEE was “a holdback for economic growth,” the mining industry showed this to be
What does presidential avoidance of “the risk of a conflict of interest” mean?
The Phala Phala debacle has generated a lot of loose talk about whether or not a conflict of interest is in evidence on the President’s own version of the goings on around his dollar-stuffed couch at his game farm near
When is non-racialism not non-racialism? When it is carried out by methods of constitutional vandalism
Over the past few weeks, an important public debate has unfolded between myself and Christo van der Rheede of the FW de Klerk Foundation over one of the defining constitutional questions of post-apartheid South Africa: does the Constitution require or
South African elite psychosis and the personality of Donald Trump
Much has changed in South African civic discourse since the beginning of 2025, to the point of being jarring to many of us. What could explain the about-face, especially among those who used to portray themselves as the moderate middle?