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Carney’s speech referenced a landmark 1978 essay by Czech dissident and later president, Václav Havel, called “The Power of the Powerless.”

From Salon

“This is the big one,” political scientist Barbara F. Walter explained in an essay exploring the dangers of institutional sabotage.

From Salon

And I am so critical, I know I would have torn my own essay apart if someone had handed it to me.

From Los Angeles Times

Meanwhile, Verbeek essays a familiar Dardennes type — the defiantly unsympathetic character in peril — as Jessica stubbornly forces her way into her mystery mom’s orbit, demanding answers she thinks might give her closure.

From Los Angeles Times

Described as part fiction, part memoir and part essay, at its heart is a love story between a couple who part as students and rekindle their relationship years later.

From BBC