He wrote the conservative essays himself, in ink on yellow pads, often while on airplanes.
There's the urban pragmatist (Ms. Mac Donald, who clerked for the liberal federal Judge Stephen Reinhardt but now writes conservative essays about homelessness and policing), the data-driven scientist (Mr. Khan), and the libertarian enthusiast for tort reform (Walter Olson, also founder of the blog Overlawyered).
A major faction of the responsible Republican base is working against Trump's nomination, including 22 conservatives who wrote essays against Trump in one issue of the conservative National Review.
It also contained 22 essays by conservative thinkers explaining why they believe Mr Trump should not be the Republican candidate for the presidency.
T. Greg Doucette is a Durham-based criminal defense lawyer, fierce civil libertarian and anti-Trump conservative whose perspicacious twitter essays on the grinding nastiness of America's criminal justice system have earned him a wide following.
Commentators on the right and left, liberal Thom Hartmann and conservative Ike Brannon, published essays on the same day, Feb. 22, saying the same thing: Americans should have the right to discharge their student debt in bankruptcy proceedings, just like all other loans.
Weeks before Charlottesville, a Catholic journal close to the Vatican published an essay by two authors reportedly close to Francis.The essay accused conservative pro-Trump Catholics of complicity in an "alliance of hate".
Recently the blogger Rod Dreher linked to Kirk's essay, "Ten Conservative Principles," which gives the flavor of this brand of traditional conservatism.
In April, the conservative Heritage Foundation included an essay about Frederick Douglass in a book titled "No Excuses: Lessons From 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools".
Reed, who is black, has written about himself as a member of "the left," and he is deeply critical of the conservative movement; in his essay, he made passing reference to what he called "thinly veiled racism" among Tea Party Republicans.
Elaine Donnelly, president of the conservative Center for Military Readiness, called the essay "one-sided" and said allowing homosexuals to serve openly would be similar to having women in the service cohabit with men.
