

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.
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Retaliatory tariffs are bad policy
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 1, 2025
We all like to hear fighting words from the targets of Trump’s tariffs, but counter-tariffs only make a bad situation worse. Lately, we’ve had a

Steel tariff madness as another Master Plan crumbles
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 28, 2025
The steel industry blames cheap imports for its woes, as government officials prepare a new wave of protectionism, at the cost of consumers. Master Plans

First success hatches from Trump’s tariff war
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 25, 2025
America’s tariff war has produced its first success, clamping down on dangerous contraband smuggled across the border into the US. The War on Drugs gets

On pain, desperation and chiropractors
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 21, 2025
Alternative health peddlers get rich exploiting desperate sufferers of intractable ailments or pain, often with disastrous consequences. There are few things more likely to motivate

Trevor Noah: was integration a bad idea?
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 19, 2025
South African expatriate comedian Trevor Noah set the internet on fire in a recent podcast when he questioned whether “integration was the right move”. “That

Budget 2025: SA cannot afford business as usual
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 14, 2025
Budget 2025 is the right hill to die on, for the Democratic Alliance. It cannot tolerate business as usual. What, exactly, is the point of

JD Vance’s preposterous Munich speech
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 11, 2025
Last month, JD Vance berated European leaders in Munich over “the threat from within”. His speech was nuts. At the Munich Security Conference held in

Trump doesn’t want to play “leader of the free world” anymore
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 7, 2025
US President Donald Trump’s Oval Office outburst at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is symbolic of a world order changing before our very eyes. Earlier in

Trump overturns the chess board
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 4, 2025
US President Donald Trump sure has a flair for the dramatic. After his press conference with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he might even get what

Making measles great again
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Feb 28, 2025
RFK Jr.’s response to a major measles outbreak that caused the first deaths in the US in nearly a decade was to downplay it as