The most powerful essay I read this year was David Grann's "Trial by Fire" in The New Yorker.
Yet, as Garton Ash says of Orwell: "One of his most powerful early essays describes witnessing a hanging in Burma.
His next book is to be on the rook and he clearly loves the bird, affording it one of the longest and most powerful mini-essays here.
The most powerful constitutional power was imperium.
It follows Janine Wedel's "Collision and Collusion" (1998), Stephen Cohen's "Failed Crusade" (2000) and numerous essays, the most powerful of which came in 1999 from Joseph Stiglitz, then chief economist of the World Bank, who argued that what the reformers had done was to create "incentives for asset stripping", not for productive capitalism.
After a brief period during which he served in his country's foreign service, Montalvo spent most of his life in exile, writing powerful essays attacking a succession of Ecuador's dictators.
"I sometimes think of female adolescence as the most powerful life force human nature has to offer," the essay begins, "and male adolescence as its most powerful death force, albeit a romantic one".
Read these six essays and vote for the one that makes the most powerful case.
"I believe that permanent normal trade status, with its implication of openness and fairness, is among the most powerful means of promoting freedom in China," Ms. Dai wrote in an essay published in The Los Angeles Times.
We face theists who speak from the heart, tapping some of the most powerful emotions known to humankind, while we limit ourselves to the kind of words and clauses that work in college essays.
