This is Ross Barkan's newsletter - original essays on politics, society, and culture

A Substack concerned mostly with the history, nature and worldview of "liberation movements"; and the threat they pose to Western-style democracy, in South Africa and elsewhere.

Politics and culture from the UK and beyond by Nick Cohen

My personal Substack

Seeing the future through the past, and vice versa

South Africa's economic past, present and future

How do we make the future (even) better than the present? By using science, evidence and reason. Progressives need to embrace progress again.

My attempt at thoughtful reflections on law, politics, and culture.

The community for those who believe that a free society is worth fighting for.

Using the tools of analytic philosophy and critical thinking to help us climb out of the cognitive chaos and resulting polarization of the 2020s