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A version of this essay first appeared in Crash Course, Salon's free morning newsletter.
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026
In an essay for this year's Proms programme, he admitted that some of the genre's "excesses and follies can seem silly" to a modern eye, while insisting the genre shouldn't be written off.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right,” he wrote External link in Resistance to Civil Government, the essay known as Civil Disobedience.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
In a recent essay in the Journal of Democracy, Mr. Shah of McDaniel College outlines the field marshal’s actions that have helped consolidate military dominance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Whenever I forget to take the chicken out of the freezer, she lectures me—and then proceeds to prosecute me for forgetting to turn in my language arts essay.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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