Ivo Vegter
Ivo Vegter is a freelance journalist, columnist and speaker who loves debunking myths and misconceptions, and addresses topics from the perspective of individual liberty and free markets.
Articles By This Author
Rainbow pedestrian crossing triggers “Christians”
It would be funny to watch minorities invoke majoritarianism against other minorities, if it wasn’t so hateful and intolerant.
A low wage is not immoral; forbidding it is
The National Minimum Wage Commission will soon determine next year’s mandatory wage levels. The exercise rests on a persuasive but perverse moral claim.
Stop trying to build state capacity
That the state lacks the capacity to provide many services should come as no surprise to the Hayekian liberal.
There is nothing suicidal about empathy
The theory that the West is dying of “suicidal empathy” misunderstands liberty, misunderstands the West, and misunderstands empathy itself.
Another partnership, signifying nothing
The President wants credit for putting out fires his own government started, and applause for a partnership that has existed since before the Constitution.
What US Democrats could learn from the DA
MAGA has offered voters the most persuasive case against radicalism in living memory. Some left-wingers are determined to fight fire with fire.
Identity politics speaks many languages
Ethnic nationalism, “group rights” and “cultural rights” come in left-wing and right-wing flavours. All are incompatible with a free society founded on individual rights and equality before the law.
This is why we can’t have nice things
South Africa needs economic development. It also needs oil and gas. Foreign-funded eco-lawfare is ensuring it gets neither.
DA manifesto: the least bad option
The DA’s local government manifesto is the most economically literate platform in South African party politics. That is faint praise, but it does not merit more than that.
Funding journalism: the tender mercies of the state
Styli Charalambous says only the state can fix journalism’s “market failure”, but the state’s two journalism funding efforts produced a propaganda organ and a Gupta laundromat.