essay

An essay is a structured piece of writing that presents a focused argument, analysis, or reflection on a specific topic, typically supported by evidence and organized into an introduction, body, and conclusion.

Aliases (24)

• essay collection ×91
• political essay ×23
• philosophical essay ×22
• speech ×10
• written work ×8
• open letter ×4
• feminist essay ×3
• feminist text ×3
• German-language essay ×1
• apologetic treatise ×1
• autobiographical essay ×1
• book-length essay ×1
• commentary ×1
• essay section ×1
• essays ×1
• humorous essay ×1
• humorous essays ×1
• literary essay ×1
• memoir section ×1
• non-fiction essay ×1
• political-philosophical essay ×1
• reflective essays ×1
• satirical essay ×1
• syndicated column ×1

Instances (237)

• The Computer as a Communication Device
• Free Software, Free Society ("essay collection")
• The Mutability of Literature
• The Art of Book-Making
• Rural Funerals
• American Power and the New Mandarins ("essay collection")
• The Amniotic Universe
• The Voyage
• The Alhambra ("essay collection")
• The Night Walkers
• Race, Language and Culture ("essay collection")
• Logic and Knowledge ("essay collection")
• On Liberty ("philosophical essay")
• The Subjection of Women
• "Day of Infamy" speech ("speech")
• Sinews of Peace ("speech")
• Perpetual Peace ("philosophical essay")
• A Call for Unity ("open letter")
• Ansichten der Natur ("essay collection")
• The Drowned and the Saved ("essay collection")
• Ich bin ein Berliner speech ("speech")
• Thoughts on Government ("written work")
• My Summer in a Garden ("essay collection")
• Backlog Studies ("essay collection")
• As We Were Saying ("essay collection")
• Essays, Moral and Political ("essay collection")
• As We May Think
• The Scientist as Rebel (book) ("essay collection")
• Man-Computer Symbiosis
• Greta Thunberg’s address to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) ("speech")
• The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. ("essay collection")
• Primo Levi ("essay collection")
• Multatuli ("essay collection")
• The Gospel of Wealth
• Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
• On Denoting ("philosophical essay")
• Why I Am Not a Christian
• As We Go ("essay collection")
• Letter from Birmingham Jail ("open letter")
• The Politics of Prudence ("essay collection")
• Roscoe
• Gettysburg Address ("speech")
• Enemies of the Permanent Things ("essay collection")
• Nature
• The American Scholar
• Essays: First Series ("essay collection")
• Representative Men ("essay collection")
• Society and Solitude ("essay collection")
• The Conduct of Life ("essay collection")
• Essays: Second Series ("essay collection")
• Essays ("essay collection")
• Translation of Laplace's Mécanique Céleste ("commentary")
• Mao Zedong essay "In Memory of Norman Bethune"
• Death by Black Hole ("essay collection")
• The Federalist No. 32 ("political essay")
• The Federalist No. 34 ("political essay")
• "How dare you" speech at the UN in 2019 ("speech")
• Wholly New Forms of Encyclopedias ("essay section")
• Lettres philosophiques ("essay collection")
• Traité sur la tolérance ("philosophical essay")
• Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
• Gift from the Sea ("essay collection")
• Essays to Do Good ("essay collection")
• Local Color ("essay collection")
• Portraits and Observations ("essay collection")
• The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener ("essay collection")
• The Roving Mind ("essay collection")
• The Relativity of Wrong
• Science: Good, Bad and Bogus ("essay collection")
• Opus 200 ("essay collection")
• Film Form ("essay collection")
• Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays ("essay collection")
• The Tragedy of the Moon ("essay collection")
• Criticism and Fiction ("essay collection")
• Among My Books ("essay collection")
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Homesteading the Noosphere
• How To Become A Hacker
• Magic Cauldron
• Revenge of the Hackers
• Restrictions on the Authority of the Several States ("political essay")
• Language and Mind ("essay collection")
• The Federalist No. 43 ("political essay")
• The Federalist No. 45 ("political essay")
• The Federalist No. 39 ("political essay")
• The Algebra of Infinite Justice ("essay collection")
• Listening to Grasshoppers ("essay collection")
• Field Notes on Democracy ("essay collection")
• Capitalism: A Ghost Story ("political essay")
• Walking with the Comrades
• The Federalist No. 46 ("political essay")
• "Now We Can Begin" (1920 essay)
• the Over-Soul
• Self-Reliance
• Woman in the Nineteenth Century ("feminist text")
• American Diplomacy ("essay collection")
• Software is eating the world
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ("feminist text")
• Federalist No. 10 ("political essay")
• Federalist No. 51 ("political essay")
• Raymond ("essay collection")
• Federalist No. 78 ("political essay")
• Bad Feminist ("essay collection")
• De veritate religionis Christianae ("apologetic treatise")
• The Art of Fiction (essay about his work and theory) ("literary essay")
• “Mr. Feynman Goes to Washington” (Part 2) ("memoir section")
• Discourse on the Arts and Sciences ("philosophical essay")
• Reveries of the Solitary Walker ("essay collection")
• Der Gedanke ("philosophical essay")
• Über Begriff und Gegenstand ("philosophical essay")
• The Federalist No. 33 ("political essay")
• Berigte te velde ("essay collection")
• "A Wife's Disabilities"
• What Social Classes Owe to Each Other ("essay collection")
• The Forgotten Man
• The Challenge of Facts
• Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
• Models of Bounded Rationality ("essay collection")
• What is Enlightenment? ("philosophical essay")
• The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table ("essay collection")
• The Dragon in My Garage
• Essays in Biography ("essay collection")
• Advertisements for Myself ("essay collection")
• House and Home Papers ("essay collection")
• Palmetto Leaves ("essay collection")
• The Chimney-Corner ("essay collection")
• Civil Disobedience
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! ("essay collection")
• Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature ("essay collection")
• Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution ("essay collection")
• Le Coup d’État permanent ("political essay")
• L’Abeille et l’Architecte ("political essay")
• Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science ("essay collection")
• Nutuk ("speech")
• Inaugural Address "Ask not what your country can do for you" ("speech")
• Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks
• The Danger of Software Patents
• Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith ("essay collection")
• Federalist No. 40 ("political essay")
• David Foster Wallace ("essay collection")
• Their Morals and Ours ("political essay")
• On Practice ("philosophical essay")
• On Contradiction ("philosophical essay")
• Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient ("philosophical essay")
• The Federalist No. 44 ("political essay")
• J’accuse…! ("open letter")
• The Fire Next Time ("essay collection")
• Notes of a Native Son ("essay collection")
• Nobody Knows My Name ("essay collection")
• The Devil Finds Work ("book-length essay")
• To Be the Poet ("essay collection")
• No Name in the Street ("essay collection")
• Über die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates ("political-philosophical essay")
• Reflections on the Romance of Science ("essay collection")
• Les Tendances nouvelles ("written work")
• Heroes and Villains – lyrics ("written work")
• An American Lady ("written work")
• When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? ("essay collection")
• The Doctrine of Fascism ("political essay")
• The Enfranchisement of Women
• On Marriage
• Computing Machinery and Intelligence ("philosophical essay")
• Star Papers ("essay collection")
• Two Concepts of Liberty ("philosophical essay")
• The Hedgehog and the Fox
• Russian Thinkers ("essay collection")
• Against the Current ("essay collection")
• The Crooked Timber of Humanity ("essay collection")
• Of the Liberty of the Press
• Whether the British Government inclines more to Absolute Monarchy or to a Republic ("political essay")
• Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature ("philosophical essay")
• On the Conservation of Force
• Mystery and Manners ("essay collection")
• Four Essays on Liberty ("essay collection")
• On New Democracy ("political essay")
• “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” ("philosophical essay")
• Ontological Relativity and Other Essays ("essay collection")
• “On What There Is” ("philosophical essay")
• Letter to the soldiers of Coroticus ("open letter")
• On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences ("speech")
• Strength to Love ("essay collection")
• The Use of Knowledge in Society
• Essay on Education
• Essay on the Ballot
• Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose ("philosophical essay")
• Observations on the Act of Parliament commonly called the Boston Port-Bill ("written work")
• The Pillow Book ("essay collection")
• The Federalist Papers ("essay collection")
• Über die Gestalt der Vulkane in den Anden
• Anti-Federalist Papers ("essays")
• With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy ("essay collection")
• Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye ("essay collection")
• Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews ("essay collection")
• Science and Culture, and Other Essays ("essay collection")
• Anthropology and the Abnormal
• Southern Ladies and Gentlemen ("essay collection")
• The GNU Manifesto
• Parerga and Paralipomena ("essay collection")
• Of the Love of Fame
• Tagebuch 1946–1949 ("essay collection")
• The Problem with Music
• Epigrams on Programming ("essay collection")
• Reflections of a Radical Moderate ("essay collection")
• A Philosophical Sketch ("philosophical essay")
• Why I Am an Atheist
• My Day ("syndicated column")
• Al Parashat Derakhim ("essay collection")
• Second Inaugural Address ("speech")
• essay "A Failure of Intelligence"
• essay "The World, the Flesh and the Devil"
• essay "Religion from the Outside"
• essay "The Future Needs Us"
• The Maine Woods ("essay collection")
• Federalist No. 2 ("political essay")
• The Doors of Perception
• Heaven and Hell ("philosophical essay")