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Trust Must Be Earned
We should resist the comforting nostalgia for a traditional media model that was not without significant problems.
9 hrs ago
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David Ansara
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Who really "won" the budget battle?
Three months of gaslighting.
Apr 25
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Rational Standard Editor
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Is female empowerment making women more fragile?
It is a kind of sensitivity that makes you less resilient and thus less strong. It becomes a form of self-pity that masquerades as empowerment.
Apr 24
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RS Guest Author
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Correcting lies about Expropriation
Being able to seize more land won’t change the government’s inability to do its job properly.
Apr 23
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Nicholas Woode-Smith
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The Delusion of Moral Progress
It is delusional to believe that we subscribe to a morality that is morally superior to that of our ancestors.
Apr 22
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RS Guest Author
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Don't Break Private Security
Hopefully, this amendment doesn’t come to pass. Otherwise, criminals will have gained even more breathing room to harm innocent South Africans.
Apr 21
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Nicholas Woode-Smith
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Why It’s Democracy Failing And Not Capitalism
The very concept of representative democracy assumes the existence of a common ethical standard that is almost certainly beyond the actual human…
Apr 20
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Why the return of the Rational Standard matters
There is no shortage of radicalism in the academy. What is scarce, and dangerously so, is space for dissent – especially when that dissent originates…
Apr 19
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Ayanda S Zulu
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People Before Profits
If he gets all that right he earns income. If he doesn’t, he suffers losses. Profits not only reward him for his work but signal to others that the…
Apr 18
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Cyril sends Trump-hater to "repair" US-SA relationship; decentralisation necessary to save Joburg
A series of self-inflicted wounds.
Apr 17
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Rational Standard Editor
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Cyril sends Trump-hater to "repair" US-SA relationship; decentralisation necessary to save Joburg
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SA mustn’t embrace tariff madness
We should not fall prey to the allure of protectionism and so-called localisation
Apr 16
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Nicholas Woode-Smith
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The story of Afrikaner empowerment is more complex than Khwezi Mabasa might think
Afrikaner empowerment was a complex interplay of state power and communal self-determination, alongside an unfortunate dimension of authoritarianism.
Apr 15
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Ayanda S Zulu
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