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Then came his 1849 essay, later read by people like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Importantly, Beethoven’s symphonic essay on leadership and power was followed by the premiere of orchestrations by several composers of selected variations from Frederic Rzewski’s “The People United Will Never Be Defeated.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Together, they create a documentary that looks like a moodboard colliding with a fashion archivist’s YouTube video essay.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

In an August 1978 essay for Ebony, he observed that if the rising generation of black youth hoped to “close the gap and catch up” in income and education, their priority should be discipline:

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Thus the origin of the ‘Apology’ was every bit as private and personal as that of the essay on friendship, and here again we have a pairing of texts—Sebond’s defence of Christianity with Montaigne’s ‘Apology’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton