David Matthews

Throughout recorded history, humans have used a commodity as their money. From approximately 500 BC in the West, the chosen commodities were gold, silver, and

Today’s popular call for capitalism to be replaced with another economic system is driven by a common misunderstanding of what capitalism essentially is. Long confusingly

Empathy and altruism are two qualities that humans believe that our species possesses to a significant degree. While both qualities certainly play a vital role

The most significant fact arising from the Holocaust is that the unspeakable barbarity and depravity wrought upon the Jews was perpetrated, not by a society

The majority of whites in South Africa regard Affirmative Action (AA) negatively, as holding back the economic growth that the country needs urgently in order

There are two fundamental reasons why, despite the positive prospects the country enjoyed in 1994, South Africa is degenerating rapidly into yet another failed African

Anyone reading this has been extraordinarily fortunate, and in a profound way that they are quite possibly unaware of. They were lucky enough to be

Despite the vast increase in knowledge and understanding that the application of the scientific method and its by-product, secularity, have brought Western civilisation over the

The free, prosperous, and civilised liberal democratic world that we have lived in all our lives, and which we take so for granted, is in

Racism has been recognised as a major problem in the West for approximately 70 years.  Despite the attention it has received and the social damage