MICHAEL MORRIS: SA’s future is not preordained
Policymakers make policy, but not beyond our reach
One of the most interesting things I read in the last days of 2024 was an appraisal of Jimmy Carter, published only hours after the former US president’s death on December 29, in the journal Reason.
I am indebted to colleague Chris Hattingh, executive director of the Centre for Risk Analysis, for sharing Gene Healy’s article “RIP Jimmy Carter, the ‘passionless’ president — the libertarian case for the late Jimmy Carter”, and being reminded of those difficult, often cynical late-Cold War years of the more or less unlovely 1970s, and their importance in shaping the world in which my generation came, restless and wary, to adulthood. ..
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