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Trends against Putin: Western support and international isolation
- By Sebastian Chatov
- . Apr 22, 2023
Few propaganda machines have worked as hard to craft the image of a brilliant strategist for their political master as the modern Russian one. Even
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If you need electricity, don’t decommission power stations
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 21, 2023
A special cabinet meeting on Wednesday discussed slowing down the decommissioning of old coal-fired power stations. It’s one of the smarter ideas we’ve seen in
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McDonald’s goes big
- By Nicholas Lorimer
- . Apr 21, 2023
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 15th April 1955 – McDonald’s corporation dates its founding to the opening
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Why (classical) liberalism ought to be the philosophy of the courts
- By Martin van Staden
- . Apr 20, 2023
Constitutionalism did not fall out of an intellectual vacuum. The fingerprints of ‘classical’ liberalism are necessarily all over it, a fact not seriously disputed by
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Racial quotas in hiring: another own goal
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Apr 19, 2023
Last week President Cyril Ramaphosa declared his fifth annual SA investment conference a great success. And last week the President also signed into law the Employment
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Infamous ‘peer-reviewed’ antivax paper retracted
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 18, 2023
In January, Covid-19 vaccine opponents got all worked up about a paper that appeared to show 278 000 vaccine-related deaths in the US. Of course, the
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Classrooms, religion, and history
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Apr 17, 2023
I look forward to the contributions by Ivo Vegter; logical, cogently argued, empirically illustrated and typically well sourced. Agree with him or not, and I
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Judging versus solving: US perspectives and SA implications
- By Shawn Hagedorn
- . Apr 17, 2023
Joe Biden’s harsh labelling of national leaders makes geopolitical solutions even more elusive. The ANC’s vilifying successful societies undermines our economic prospects. Being quick to