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The Rational Standard Podcast

Since inception, the Rational Standard has been bringing news and opinion to South Africa and the world with an unashamed bias to freedom, individual liberty and all things that make a nation prosper.... Read more

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Tobacco Prohibition and the Nanny State

Tobacco Prohibition and the Nanny State

Bill Wirtz, a senior policy analyst at the Consumer Choice Center, discusses tobacco, alcohol and other forms of prohibi... Read more

23 Jun 2020

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The Never Ending Lockdown

The Never Ending Lockdown

Rational Standard contributors Christo Hattingh, Jonathan Wright, and Jacques Jonker discuss lockdown stage 4 and the cu... Read more

2 May 2020

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