In Masha Gessen's alarming and widely read essay "Autocracy: Rules for Survival," she warns, "Do not be taken in by small signs of normality".
A few key American political figures like William Jennings Bryan, a member of the Anti-Imperialist league, wrote against British rule in India (Bryan's 1906 essay "British Rule in India" was actually reprinted and circulated by the Gadar Party), but this wasn't official state policy by any means.
Indeed, in his U.S. News essay, Mr. Rehnquist ruled out the possibility of influence once the court agreed to hear a case.
The artists who've responded most positively to the essay, says Rule, "are the ones who have been through master of fine arts programmes" where IAE is pervasive.
Wright also edited the anthology The Great Detective Stories (1927) and wrote the essays "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories," which appeared in American Magazine (1928), and I Used to Be a Highbrow but Look at Me Now (1929).
In her essay, "Sontag's Rules," in crystalline detail, she remembers Sontag's elaborate rules for living the life of a writer and intellectual -- and Nunez names each rule she adopted for herself.
I'd read that another of my literary heroes, Susan Sontag, "refused to carry a purse," as Sigrid Nunez writes in the essay "Sontag's Rules," published in the fall 2009 issue of Tin House.
In 1909, the American historian and novelist Henry Adams finished an essay entitled "The Rule of Phase Applied to History", in which he sought to apply Gibbs's phase rule and other thermodynamic concepts to a general theory of human history.
Susan Engel's excellent Op-Ed essay, "Let Kids Rule the School," described the powerful outcomes possible when authentic learning is privileged over standardization and stress.
