A select list of well received essays by topic.
Activism
Becoming and being an activist
American notes
America in the twilight
Cities
Why smart growth isn’t as smart as it thinks it is
Democracy and its threats
Learning from Orwell & Mussolini
Drugs
Before the drug war
Education
Back to school: Memoirs of a parent association president
School “reform” is about class, not classrooms
Is the Gates Foundation involved in bribery?
The road to literacy is paved with words, not tests
Ethnic
Leading the majority: how minorities change America
Integration of Glen Echo Amusement Park
Foreign affairs
What Dien Bien Phu could have taught us
Mid East
Time to stop being afraid of Israel
Mid East exploratory hypothesis
Preserving a Jewish state or a Jewish soul
Humanities
The existential threat to existentialism
Justice
The militarization of civilian America
Local
Bringing democracy to the ‘hood
Local democracy as well as local lettuce
Media
Confessions of a former British journalist
Journalism: What good old days?
How television turned off politics
Why journalism isn’t a profession
Politics
Learning democracy is just as important as learning math
How Mad Men control our politics
America becoming a corporate colony
The secret they won’t tell you
Washington
Sam Smith's Essays 
Some of the essays are all hyperlinked together and regardless of which you select the same one keeps opening, such as those under Activism. Would you please check them all and decouple. I would really like to read Mr. Smith’s essays.
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