Swart Donkey

The beauty of conservatism lies in protecting the things we love. In keeping them holy . With less questioning, and more trust, we can buil...

Why do we live where we live? Daniel Gilbert talks about the three biggest determinants of our happiness being where we live, what we do, ...

I am a Soutie . There were 48 people from all over the world at the ceremony when I became a British Citizen . It was a beautiful thing. Th...

There are a few books I have read that stand out as having challenged a deeply held belief of mine. Books that made me pause sufficiently l...

I felt like I grew up in the liberal part of South Africa. Only white people got to vote, but I grew up feeling like most of the people ar...

Positive goals can have unintended consequences . One push back on liberalism is a push back on individualism and selfishness. A suggested ...

We are here. That much we know , and we are trying to figure things out. We have things we want to protect, and things we want to change. T...

If the world is divided simplistically into Conservatives (Order) and Liberals (Movement), I would normally fall towards the choice of mov...

We don't like to think of ourselves as the bad guy . I am trying to read more about Cecil John Rhodes as a way of understanding the obs...

We need to be very careful that the measures we choose to set goals by actually reflect what is important to us. Liberal anger at wealth/i...

Stuart mentioned Jonathan Haidt on his blog just a couple of days ago and lo and behold I come across him in my daily dose of TED in his t...