
David Matthews
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The masters of mankind
- By David Matthews
- . Jan 25, 2025
The political freedom and the high material standard of living enjoyed today in the West are very much taken for granted, but are in fact

The role of fiat currency in the rise of the state
- By David Matthews
- . Nov 2, 2024
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

It’s not capitalism failing, but liberal democracy
- By David Matthews
- . Oct 5, 2024
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

The political exploitation of empathy and altruism
- By David Matthews
- . Feb 4, 2024
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

How the Holocaust prevents a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem
- By David Matthews
- . Oct 23, 2023
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 solid case for Affirmative Action
- By David Matthews
- . Sep 11, 2023
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

Two reasons why SA is failing
- By David Matthews
- . Aug 12, 2023
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

Understanding the culture that we are in the process of losing
- By David Matthews
- . Apr 29, 2023
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

The human two-world perception
- By David Matthews
- . Apr 8, 2023
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 eclipse of the liberal democratic world
- By David Matthews
- . Jun 18, 2022
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