Philosophy

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

The Permitted State: A Theory of Conditional Political Power

Political power begins with the individual, not the state. Government exists only by permission, for the narrow task of preventing aggression…

Nov 20, 2025 • RS Guest Author

How The West Is Run

We are not fighting the communists anymore. We are fighting the banking committees.

Nov 10, 2025 • Trevor Watkins

The Moral Pivot: Civic Visibility vs State Opacity

Liberal democracy depends on a simple but essential asymmetry: citizens are private, governments are visible. Power must be accountable...

Oct 22, 2025 • RS Guest Author

Equality Requires The Abolition Of Freedom

The destructive nature of socialism is the result of its desire for equality of results instead of for equality of rights.

Oct 14, 2025 • James Peron

Cosmos and Taxis

We suffer from a naive belief in the power of action, planning and purpose. We forget that almost everything in our experience acts outside of our…

Oct 8, 2025 • Trevor Watkins

The Dynamic Nature of True Liberalism

We are not wedded to the conclusions of any specific liberal thinker, but we are wedded to their foundational truths.

Sep 2, 2025 • James Peron

The Safeguard South Africa Cannot Afford To Forget

Citizens must demand reasons whenever power is exercised and insist that officials justify their actions by reference to the law.

Sep 1, 2025 • Eustace Davie

Libertarianism & Bigotry

A society that respects rights cannot tolerate those who deny them to others.

Aug 6, 2025 • RS Guest Author

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