Andrew Kenny

The second decade of the 21st Century ends in a few days. It has been marked by the greatest advance ever in human welfare, by

On Wednesday, a mighty armed force of the state descended upon Camps Bay in Cape Town. Grim, imposing, intimidating, it had arrived to ‘stamp the

President Barack Obama has just released his memoirs (again?). The big media will require us to genuflect before them. Obama was a skilful politician, a

There is a modern tendency to attribute morality to inanimate things. Thus ‘energy’ is ‘good’, and ‘pressure’ is ‘bad’. ‘Positive’ and ‘negative’ are used for

The Covid-19 pandemic, mild compared with pandemics of the past, exposes an ancient political divide. The divide is about 70,000 years old, beginning when humans

Behind the questions loudly asked about the recent incident at Brackenfell High School in Cape Town is a much deeper question, only softly asked –

Surely there must be a better voting system than this? Many people must have asked this question as they watched the messy vote-counting for the

What is feminism? What makes a feminist? These questions occurred to me last week as I watched reactions to the appointment of a strong, sympathetic,

What is feminism? What makes a feminist? These questions occurred to me last week as I watched reactions to the appointment of a strong, sympathetic,