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Matthew Blackman

Matthew Blackman

Matthew Blackman is a South African writer and journalist. He recently finished a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia. His Instagram is @blackmanrossouw.

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Vintage engraving of The Bench, by William Hogarth. 1758, depicts four judges listening to a case in the Court of Common Pleas.
Education & Society

Does Law Exist to Provide Moral Order?

Is social cohesion possible in plural societies? Philosopher H. L. A. Hart weighed in amid debates on abortion and same-sex relationships.
Walter Rubusana
Politics & History

How Walter Rubusana Paved the Way for Nelson Mandela

Rubusana was the first Black politician elected to office in colonial South Africa.
Close-up of an eye from the cover of Camu's The Plague
Arts & Culture

Resistance through Silence in Camus’s The Plague

"On this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it’s up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences."

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