Philosophy

Word Prisons and the Ethics of the Individual

The ethical individual doesn’t act correctly because they were told to. They act well because they’ve thought well

May 27 • Bryan Theunissen

Conservatives Are Not Liberals

Free markets alone do not make one a liberal. True liberalism begins with individual rights, including the freedom to live, think, speak, trade…

May 26 • James Peron

Free Speech Is An Absolute

The mark of a confident democracy is not its ability to silence its most radical voices, but its capacity to tolerate their noise.

May 20 • RS Guest Author

Reality Is Not Negotiable: An Objectivist View of Gender

Facts are not subject to a vote, and they are not subject to an individual’s emotional state. For the Objectivist, the path to human flourishing is not…

May 12

The Tension Between Liberty and Public Safety

We should not wait for someone to die to recognise a threat, but we must be careful not to criminalise “danger” itself.

Apr 23

Weight-Loss Drugs And Freedom Of Choice

Fat or thin, it is hard being human. As Thomas Sowell says: “There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs.”

Apr 15 • RS Guest Author

The Death Of Doom

Overpopulation hysteria has all but vanished. The real issue of population is basic economics.

Apr 2 • James Peron

Individualism Is Misunderstood

Choice is the defining characteristic of individualism: the ability of every human being to determine their own destiny...

Mar 4 • Zakhele Mthembu

The Pitfalls Of Biological Essentialism In Understanding Society And Progress

Biological essentialism, in some ways, continues to be a lens that people use to make sense of issues and difference in South Africa.

Dec 23, 2025 • Ayanda S Zulu

Secular Calvinism: A Manifesto for the Age of Abundance

In an age overflowing with possibility, poverty becomes less a condition and more a refusal.

Dec 9, 2025 • RS Guest Author

The “No-Harm Without Consent” Principle: A Defence of Individual Autonomy

Consent is the key to relationships, transactions, and a truly free society.

Dec 4, 2025 • Charl Heydenrych

Ossified Rules, Hidden Risk: When Safety Stops Progress

Stability and safety do not always coincide. Mature regulatory systems often optimize for defensibility—career safety for the individual…

Nov 26, 2025 • RS Guest Author

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