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Doomsayers wrong on decline of the West - Businesslive
16 October 2022 - Mulling over why I instinctively feel it is an error to misperceive military superiority as a precondition of freedom led to my tracking down ...
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Compromising freedoms is no way to react to Rushdie attack - Businesslive
21 August 2022 - I couldn’t help thinking at the time that there was something distinctly prophetic in the idea in Salman Rushdie’s 2001 novel, Fury, that Rome ...
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Repression goes global - Newsi
10 June 2022 - A great deal has been said and written in recent years about the world’s democratic recession. Many democracies suffered from the weakening or ...
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Freedom Day is good; More Freedom Day would be better – IRR
26 April 2022 - The greatest sin of apartheid – judging black people inferior and therefore undeserving – was a crime against freedom: the freedom of South ...
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Freedom guarantees bad ideas will be challenged - Businesslive
5 December 2021 - I began my first column of the year with a brief extract from a book, Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now, which for me defines an essential ...
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Exchanging views on difficult topics is not easy but far preferable to exchanging rocket fire - Businesslive
24 May 2021 - Relying on pet aphorisms can lead to lazy mental habits, but over the years I’ve found a few that have proved more dependable than most.
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Fake news: study shows its dangers and calls for citizens to oppose it – IRR
12 May 2021 - Fake news poses a threat to free societies; it poisons societies’ information environments, distorts perceptions of what is true and false and ...
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Only greater public engagement can #KillTheBill and protect property rights for all - IRR
4 February 2021 - The extension of the deadline for public comment on the Expropriation Bill is a victory for all South Africans who have joined the IRR’s ...
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Letter: Expropriation without compensation will take South Africa to the brink - The Star
13 November 2020 - The imminent court appearance of ANC secretary general Ace Magashule on corruption charges risks being misjudged as a significant step in ...
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GDP counts but is no guarantor of economic dignity for all - Businesslive
20 September 2020 - Though it’s a statistic of dubious reliability, the calculation that 3.7-million Americans claim to have been abducted by aliens is a good ...
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