Michael Morris

Adam Hochschild, best known perhaps for his 1998 book on Congo’s colonial catastrophe, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial

“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.” These words, in German and in Catalan, appear

At first glance, the watchers in the photograph are rather like us; outsiders looking in. Even without being able to see their faces, we can

I suspect the main reason why liberalism is so much stronger and more enduring than the fiercer (and all too often indistinguishable) ideologies to its

This is really a reflection on the virtue of being less than wholly convincing, or convinced, and thus avoiding the penalty of bringing the argument

South Africans who have the most to offer are the very ones the country is most likely to lose to emigration, according to new research.

The older I get the more I am persuaded that the best reason for monuments is being reminded just how wrong we so often are

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba’s grossly misdirected attack on Jonathan Jansen earlier this month (“Foreign nationals: The new F-word that needs proper discourse,” 10 April) over

Few recent statements have more clearly illuminated the crippling delusion at the heart of the ANC’s political project than former President Thabo Mbeki’s characterisation of

‘We never said a word about the fact that I have no arms.’ Felix Klieser  In a world so often dominated by the self-pitying and