The DA and the uncertainty of the second transition
In what was billed by the DA as his first major policy address, the party’s recently elected leader, Geordin Hill-Lewis, spoke last week about the country’s second transition, what he termed “a brand-new era”.
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ANC spooked by March and March
Nicholas Lorimer and Chris Hattingh discuss the ANC’s response to March and March, the dispute over the Eskom transmission grid, and the national government’s suspension of payments to Johannesburg. https://youtube.com/live/K-Je9RLPaIQ?feature=share
The liberty of gender identity
A classical liberal need not settle the metaphysics of gender to know what the state should do about it: as little as possible.
International Socialism or National Socialism? America’s New Right chooses government over markets
When US Vice President JD Vance sat down with Michael Knowles recently, he noted that President Donald Trump had said he wanted to seize equity in AI companies, and that nobody had really protested, describing this as evidence that the
By-election trends suggest ANC seeing collapse in the near future
Nicholas Lorimer and Terence Corrigan discuss Gareth van Onselen’s analysis of by-election data from across the country. They also discuss Tony Leon’s response to John Steenhuisen’s interview with News24. https://youtube.com/live/Gj_673S52B8?feature=share
Yes, voter hubris is the problem. And it should be
“So… it’s voter hubris that is the problem? Not that the DA has chosen their most unlikeable candidate for the job?” I came across this grumpy little gem on Facebook a while ago.
Caligula’s contribution to constitutional democracy
According to legend, the Roman emperor Caligula decided to appoint his horse, a magnificent Spanish stallion called Incitatus, as proconsul during a particularly trying time around the dawn of the Christian era.
A formula for the immigration problem
Is there a formula for dealing with these pesky foreigners? How many are too many? They are always marching in and out, across borders and into economies. People are having sex with them, exchanging cultural expressions, and, God forbid, some