The Common Sense
16 July 2026
No. 80Subscribe

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Some Advice to Bishops

Bishops is a school, not a political group, and it should stay away from political and ideological battles, or it will get into terrible trouble.

Some Advice to Bishops
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Economics & Policy

South Africa’s Incredible Vanishing Mining Industry

Thirty years of hopeless mining policy matched with the expropriation without compensation (EWC) of mineral rights has wrecked one of South Africa’s most important industries – in a warning of what may lie ahead if the government proceeds with EWC and NHI.

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Global

America’s Most Toxic Export

The furthest-left members of the United States Congress would sit as near-centrists in a legislature of American professors. New analysis of 45 years of campaign donation records shows the American academy is not merely liberal but ideologically uniform, and that carries a lesson for anyone who cites “the experts” as neutral authority.

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Politics

South Africans Have Same Concerns Across Race and Political Spectrum

Polling shows that South Africans are more concerned with issues such as unemployment and crime, rather than racism or land reform.

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Global

Activity on Northern Border Worries South Korea

Tensions are escalating in Korean peninsula.

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El Salvador Dropped Its Murder Rate by 98%, Since Then, Its Investment Rate Has Tripled

El Salvador Dropped Its Murder Rate by 98%, Since Then, Its Investment Rate Has Tripled

Frans Cronje discusses how El Salvador reduced its violent crime rate.

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