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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What “peace through strength” means
There is a disconnect between the meaning of “peace through strength” and how US President Donald Trump appears to interpret it.
Bring back the gatekeepers and the iconoclasts
It is already too late to avoid a full-blown, AI-driven epistemic crisis. We will need trust figures, but who will pay them?
Pigeonholing wrecks intelligent public debate
Labels are sometimes useful, but pigeonholing and binary thinking also undermine the conversations on which democratic debate depends.
What has the Iran war achieved, so far?
On Wednesday night, Donald Trump once again said that “the core strategic objectives” of the strike on Iran “are nearing completion”. Are they?
The fatal conceit of administered fuel prices
Tomorrow, a whole 32 days after the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, South African fuel prices will finally respond. Finally!
The disturbing rise of war as entertainment
One of the more unsettling aspects of the US-Israeli attack on Iran is the gamification, or trivialisation, of war by the Trump administration.
Enough talk about unemployment. Here’s what to do.
On the back of a high-profile media gabfest last week, everyone seemed to be talking about unemployment. Most were wrong.
Rot in perdition, Paul R. Ehrlich
I don’t usually dance on people’s graves, but I’ll make an exception for a man whose misanthropy and dogged devotion to falsehood knew no bounds.
Pew, pew, you’re dead!
Watching Trump make war is like watching a child play pretend. He just can’t believe his target won’t lie down and act dead.
A “Berlin Wall” moment for Cuba?
Carlos Giménes, a US congressman, believes “this is not the time to blink; it’s time to finish the job”.