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THE
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW
Edited
by Sam Smith
1312 18th St NW WDC
20036
202-835-0770
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The Progressive Review is the
most recent iteration of a series of alternative journals started
in 1964, when such things didn't hardly exist. The online edition
is receiving over a million page views a year and is one of the
leading progressive news sites.
Sam Smith, so far as he can
tell, has been editing alternative journals longer than anyone
in the country and has been covering Washington for almost as
long as anyone. He has also written four books and helped to
start six organizations [including two political parties - national
Green and the DC Statehood parties]. His writing has appeared
in more than 30 publications. |
SAM SMITH'S
BOOKS & OTHER INFORMATION
WHY
BOTHER?
Getting a life in a locked-down land |
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Introduction
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Why Bother, in
a wonderfully engaging and erudite manner, addresses the great
question confronting democracy, community and justice -- and
that is civic motivation. Prepare to be motivated. Sam Smith
is an antidote to mindless speed reading. He makes you pause
between paragraphs in order to mull over the captivating morsels
he is placing in your imagination. - RALPH NADER
Sam Smith puts
it to us straight in these essays about finding meaning and hope
- JAY WALJASPER, UTNE READER
An American original.
. . He's got a big old cussed independent streak that keeps you
guessing and hence keeps you reading. - CRISPIN
SARTWELL
The alienated young, the over-worked
30-something, the free-thinking 40 year-old, the downsized 55-year-old
worker, the senior who society has put out to pasture are all
part of an America that finds itself a fugitive from the law
of averages -- the tens of millions who don't fit the media-driven
stereotype of a booming, contented country. Living in a culture
that has reduced their role to that of compliance and consumption,
these Americans increasingly react with anger, anxiety or apathy.
In this highly readable short
book, journalist and social critic Sam Smith takes on this crisis
not as a political issue but as a personal one: how does the
individual survive in such a place? Drawing from a wealth of
sources and experience ranging from philosophy and anthropology
to the Internet and rock zines, from Kierkegaard and Camus to
Humphrey Bogart and Rage Against the Machine, Smith confronts
directly despair and survival, approaches to personal rebellion,
speaking truth to power, suicide and false faith, the loss of
democracy, and what to do when nobody cares whether you do it
or not.
This is no glib self-help book,
but rather a brutally honest exploration by someone who, as an
alternative journalist for more than three decades, has repeatedly
been out of step with his time and culture. Yet beneath the direct,
honest language is a love letter to the individual, freedom,
and life itself.
Smith writes: "Hectored,
treated, advised, instructed, and compelled at every turn, history's
subjects may falter, lose heart, courage, or sense of direction.
The larger society is then quick to blame, to translate survival
systems of the weak into pathologies, and to indict as neurotic
clear recognition of the human condition. The safest defense
against this is apathy, ignorance, or surrender. Adopt any of
these strategies -- don't care, don't know or don't do -- and
you will, in all likelihood, be considered normal. The only problem
is that you will miss out on much of your life."
Smith describes an alternative
based on the existentialist "hat trick" of integrity,
passion and rebellion. Describing despair as "the suicide
of imagination," he writes, "the task is to bear knowledge
without it destroying ourselves, to challenge the wrong without
ending up on its casualty list." Despite more than three
decades of challenging wrongs, bearing bad news, and bucking
the system, Smith retains a spirit and humor that attracts an
audience across political lines to enjoy and be challenged by
his work
SAM
SMITH'S
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. . Sam Smith is handing out the boots." -- Alex Steffen,
The Stranger, Seattle weekly
"Must
read. . . combines laughter and trenchant critique to a degree
seldom seen" -- John Rensenbrink, Green Horizons
"The Tom
Paine of the Nineties" -- Chuck Stone
"Truly
independent journalist" -- Patrick Mazza, Cascadia Times
"Phenomenally
interesting. . . I recommend it highly" -- Michelle Laxalt,
co-host of Newsmakers
"You'll
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on the Talk America Network.
"Lucid
. . . Keep going, Sam" -- Mario Cuomo
"Desperately
needed" -- Roger Morris, author of Partners in Power
Featured
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INTRODUCTION
GEORGETOWN: A child of contradictions
GHOSTS: The ubiquitous past
BECOMING: Playing with and putting away childish things
FRIENDS A Quaker education
SUMMER: PART I
SUMMER:
PART II
MAGNA CUM PROBATION: Falling from grace at Harvard U
THE CANARIES IN
STUDIO A in which a young radio
reporter learns a lot about the media and Washington in a short
time.
SUSPECT: The author becomes a 23-year-old suspected
spy.
HOOLIGAN DAYS: A memoir of the Coast Guard
SEEDS The 60s before they became the 60s; in
which your editor discovers the civil rights and anti-war movements.
HOW THE TROUBLE BEGAN: A long adventure in alternative journalism
began in the mid-sixties
FIRE: The
Washington riots and other suspensions of hope
PLACE: The
battle for local power
DC DIARY: THE SEVENTIES
DC
DIARY: THE EARLY EIGHTIES
DC DIARY: THE LATE EIGHTIES
DCDIARY: THE NINETIES
THE LONELIEST MILE IN TOWN: An adventure in apostasy -- drinking upstream
from the Clinton herd
GROWING
GREEN The
birth of a movement
DC DIARY: THE NEW CENTURY
REBEL
SHADOWS
OF HOPE. Published
by Indiana University Press in 1994, this was the first book
to raise serious questions about the character and politics of
Bill Clinton. Said one reviewer, "I had to be forcibly
restrained from quoting yards of it." Order direct from
AMAZON.COM or from THE
REVIEW
CAPTIVE CAPITAL
Colonial
Life in Modern Washington. You can buy this book for $45 at a used bookstore
in Houston TX or you can order it direct from the Review
for
only $15. This classic description of Washington in the 1960s
and 70s is full of insights and information still useful today.
Fun facts
about the Review
(and its
predecessors,
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1312 18TH NW
WASH DC 20036
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Editor: Sam Smith
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Sam Smith began
his first alternative journal, the Idler, in 1964, when there
were just a handful of such publications in the U.S., such as
IF Stone's Weekly, the Realist, the Carolina Israelite, and the
Village Voice.
In 1966 he
started the Capitol East Gazette, a community paper that morphed
into the DC Gazette in 1969. It became the Progressive Review
in 1985
Sam Smith, so far as he can
tell, has been editing alternative journals longer than anyone
in the country and has been covering Washington for almost as
long as anyone in the capital. He has also written four books
and helped to start six organizations including two political
parties (national Green and DC Statehood) that actually elected
people to office.
The Gazette was a leading journalistic
voice against the Washington Post-backed plan to build miles
of freeways that would have made DC look like an east coast Los
Angeles.
Was the first publication to
call for DC statehood and explain how it could be achieved without
a constitutional amendment.
In the early 1970s became one
of the first publications to support a revival of light rail
and other alternatives to hyper-expensive and inefficient subway
systems
Was one of the first publications
to call for the building of bikeways.
Was a vigorous opponent of
destructive urban planning practices .
Was a voice of the anti-war
movement in opposition to hawkish corporate media. Is one of
the last surviving members of the Underground Press Syndicate.
Published the first urban planning
comic strip in America -- drawn by architect John Wiebenson.
Published the only regular
column at the time by a prison inmate for an outside publication
Since the 1960s has been a
critic of the punitive approach to drug addiction.
In the 1980s,
TPR predicted the break-up of the Soviet Union
Its 1990 article on the second
S&L scandal -- the S&L bailout itself -- was selected by Utne Reader
as one of the top ten undercovered stories of past decade.
In May 1992
it became the first publication in America to connect the pieces
of the puzzle that would become known as the Clinton scandals.
Its coverage of these scandals has been among the most thorough
to be found anywhere.
Writers and cartoonists who
graced the pages of the Review over the years, in some cases
well before they were discovered by larger media, have included
Dave Barry, Tom Shales, Eugene McCarthy, Tony Auth, Paul Krassner,
Jim Hightower, Tuli Kupferberg, Jim Ridgeway, Tom Tomorrow and
Bill Griffin.
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Sam Smith
is a writer, activist and social critic who has been at the forefront
of new ideas and new politics for several decades.
-- He
is the author of four highly acclaimed books, the latest of which
is Why Bother?
-- Was one of the organizers of the Association of State
Green Parties and, in the 1970s, was a co-founder of the DC Statehood
Party, which held public office for more than two decades. He
also helped to found the DC Community Humanities Council.
-- Has
had articles published in the Washington Post, Washington Star,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San
Jose Mercury News, Planning Magazine, Illustrated London News,
Washington World, Regardies Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Washington Monthly, Washington
Tribune, City Paper, Nashville Scene, Washington History, Designer/Builder,
Progressive Populist, North Coast Express, Yes!, Potomac Review,
Time Out [London] and Utne Reader
-- He
is a native Washingtonian who covered his first Washington story
in 1957 as a 19-year-old radio news reporter. He has been an
elected neighborhood commissioner, home & school association
president, Coast Guard officer, semi-professional musician, and
plaintiff in seven public interest law suits, three of them successful.
He and 19 others sued the president and Congress for an end to
DC's colonial status in a case ultimately rejected by the Supreme
Court.
Material
not independently copyrighted may be republished provided your
normal reprint fee (if any) is paid and TPR is given proper credit.
Please also mention 'Why Bother?"
Complete or
partial collections of back issues of the Idler, Gazette, and
Review can be found in libraries at Brown, Connecticut, Delaware,
George Washington, Georgetown, Maryland, Michigan, Northwestern,
Tulane, and Virginia Commonwealth universities. Also at the Buffalo-Erie,
Washington DC, and New York public libraries as well as the collection
of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The early DC Gazette
is available on microfilm through University Microfilm. The papers
of Sam Smith are in the Washingtoniana division of the Martin
Luther King Jr. Library, Washington DC.
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FOOTBALL & THE RISE OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
Long before George
Bush, and in the comfort of his den on Sunday afternoon, the
author saw the American empire coming
ELITE ETHNOGRAPHY ARCHIVES
SKULL
& BONES
THE CLINGONS AND
THE PROCESS PEOPLE
ON PLANET POTOMAC
PRACTICING ANTHROPOLOGY WITHOUT A LICENSE
THE RISE OF A LIBERAL ARISTOCRACY AND THE FALL
OF AMERICA: The
collapse of liberalism and what's it has cost the country
CIVIL SOCIETY: They say they want
civil society; what they really want is for you to shut up. An
uncivil look at the civil socialites.
THE
CLUB:
How Washington
really operates
THE AUTISTIC CONFEDERACY Why Washington doesn't work
ALTERNATIVE
NEWS BLOG
LETTER TO THE WASHINGTON POST: Some years back the Washington
Post asked TPR's editor for some advice. It was the last time.
USA TOMORROW:: What would a really good daily newspaper
look like? TPR offers a vision unlike any other -- including
actual news!
THE CANONIZATION OF KATHARINE GRAHAM
WHY JOURNALISM ISN'T A PROFESSION
TRASHING THE TRUTH Clinton may be the Dr.
Kervorkian of the right-to-lie movement but he's not alone. This
well-received article discusses the role of truth and falsehood
in today's society.
WHY THEY HATE OLIVER STONE: An essay on the politics of myth and
its role in an age of propaganda.
CLINTON & THE MEDIA Why did the media so
misread Clinton? In Shadows of Hope, Review editor Sam
Smith took on the question early in Clinton's administration.
THE LONELIEST MILE IN TOWN Your editor's adventures
in apostasy -- drinking upstream from the Clinton herd
IMPEACHABLE DEFENSES How the media helped
Clinton get away with it.
MEDIA
STORY ARCHIVES
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BEHIND
THE BUSHES
THE COLIN POWELL FILE
My Lai, Panama, Gulf War I &
invading America's high schools
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BYRD SUMS IT UP: Senator Robert Byrd on the problems
with an Iraq war
PEACE
MOVEMENT
NEW
WORLD ORDER: Our
archives on globalization.
TIME WARP The
generation gap and the war
FACT
SHEET ON THE IMF
THE PRICE OF WAR: How many lives have been lost in various conflicts.
LETTER TO MOSCOW: In 1991 TPR published
an open letter to the new leaders of Russia about the American
way of democracy and economics. It suggests some other ways things
might have happened, but didn't.
THE POLITICS OF NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS Green thinker John Rensenbrink
HOW TO TELL IF YOU'VE WON
CHINA
NEWS ARCHIVES
DEPLETED
URANIUM: RECYCLING DEATH
FAILURES
OF INTELLIGENCE; The triumph of hope over experience
THE REAL WAR: BETWEEN MYTH AND REALITY
WHERE'S BIN BEEN? Reports on the reported whereabouts of bin Laden
as compiled by the Review
THE OIL CONNECTION
OUR FOREIGN NEWS ARCHIVES
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THE REVISION THING - The history of the Iraq war told entirely in
official lies
THE COALITION OF THE SHILLING The Iraqis will have to learn
democracy someplace else
WATER: THE GREAT HIDDEN ISSUE OF THE MIDEAST
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER?
IRAQ
NEWS ARCHIVES
MID-EAST NEWS ARCHIVES
PLAYING
ETHNIC POLITICS AT GROUND ZERO
BYRD SUMS IT UP: Senator Robert Byrd on the problems
with an Iraq war
GULF WAR I ARCHIVES Articles from the Review during the first Gulf
escapade
THE
U.S. ARMY IN AFGHANISTAN
Jason Vest examines the pitfalls of the new military
AFGHANISTAN FACTS
BALKAN NEWS STORIES
SPEECH AT FIRST ANTI-BALKAN WAR RALLY Washington Mall, April 23 1999
DOCTORS & DESTROYERS: Talk at Dupont Circle anti-war rally,
June 26, 1999
A PEACE PLAN FOR KOSOVO
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DERIVATIVE AMERICA & THE ENRON GENERATION
FALSE PROFITS An excerpt from Why Bother? that is increasingly
apt as news of corporate criminality rolls in
CORPORATIONS VS. AMERICA: The counter-revolution
of corporations against the American dream
CORPORATE
NEWS ARCHIVES
THE 100 BIGGEST CORPORATE CRIMINALS OF THE 1990s.
As
compiled by the Corporate Crime Reporter
THE BCCI SCANDAL
NO
FAULT CAPITALISM MEETS LEMON SOCIALISM An award-winning article on the second
S&L scandal -- the federal bailout.
ECONOMICS
ARCHIVES
LABOR
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The so-called
progressive sites are knee-jerk predictable, with one big exception.
That's Sam Smith's Progressive Review. . . Nowhere on the Web,
short of Drudge, is there a man who so heartily enjoys following
a hot story. -- James Ridgeway, Village Voice
The inimitable
Sam Smith - Mother Jones Magazine
An alternative
press icon if ever there was one -- NY Press
An admittedly
liberal but excellent e-mail report (we read it every day) -
Newsmax
Sam's a cynical
cat -- Marion Barry
One of the
nation's leading visionaries. -- Charlie Spencer, Charlie
Spencer Show, WHYN, Springfield MA
Best known
for his tireless contributions to progressive political action.
His career as a journalist, activist and author has embodied
Margaret Mead's belief that "a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only
thing that has" - Hartford Advocate
Notorious journalist
- Seattle Weekly
A truly independent
journalist with his feet firmly grounded in the reality of neighborhoods
and everyday people. -- Patrick Mazza, Progressive Populist
A larger than
life presence in the nation's capital . . .A truly original voice
in American journalism: humorous and plain spoken and filled
with common sense -- Jay Walljasper, Utne Reader
[He's] no stranger
to clamorous debate -- in fact, he's caused more than his share
of it himself. -- Tom McNichols, Washington City Paper
Sam's one of
the few independent voices left. - Eugene McCarthy
He has a wonderful
combination of being absolutely realistic about the vagaries
of people in political life while still being an idealist. --
Peter Edelman
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ACTIVISM
AMERICAN
NOTES
ANTHROPOLOGY OF POWER
ARTS
BEHIND
THE BUSHES
CITIES
CLINTON
FILE
CIVIL LIBERTIES & DEMOCRACY
CREEPING
COUP
CYBER NOTES
DC NEWS
ECOLOGY
ECONOMICS
EDUCATION
GUNS
GREEN POLITICS
HEALTH
IDEA MILL
IRAQ
LABOR
MEDIA
MYSTERIES
OTHER MATTERS
PEACE
POLITICS
RELIGION
WORLD
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CATO ON THE VIRTUES OF OLD AGE
IN TECHNOCRACY WE TRUST
Americans may profess Christianity but it's technocracy that
they practice
HAT
TRICK An existential
approach to the current crisis.
WHY DO WE HAVE A WAR ON DRUGS, ANYWAY?
THE BIG PAGE: Items of interest to big folk
COLD FUSION ARCHIVES
MINUTES OF THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE: planning
the Holocaust
THE LUDDITES OF MICROSOFT Making machines that smash themselves
REBELLION
Without revolution
and rebellion we would let mating and mutation do their thing.
Instead, regularly dissatisfied with our condition, our body,
our home, and our government we overthrow genetics through application
of imagination, dreams, ambition, skill, perseverance, and strength.
Every new idea is an act of rebellion, every work of art, every
stretch for something we couldn't do before, every question that
begins "what if. . ."
CRIME THE WAY IT OUGHT TO BE: Excerpts
from a small town police log
FREE THOUGHTS: Sam Smith's favorite quotations
THE REVIEW INDEX A partial index of past hard copy issues of the
Review and DC Gazette
GADFLIES: Call TPR's editor anything you want; only don't
call him a gadfly. Here's why.
HISTORY OF THE REVIEW: A short summary of
where we came from and what we've done
DESPAIR
Dealing with
failure and survival
CAMPUS NEWS
RELIGION & ITS ALTERNATIVES
ARTS
ARCHIVES
CYBER
NOTES
ARTICLES ON ACTIVISM
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ELITE ETHNOGRAPHY
PUNK
AND PROTEST The
beat, busted, bruised, and bamboozled generation
A SHORT HISTORY OF BLACK WASHINGTON
RELIGION
ARCHIVES
LOSING TIME, LOSING SPACE: The
politics of other dimensions
THINGS
IRISH-AMERICAN PROTESTANTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IRELAND
PRACTICING ANTHROPOLOGY WITHOUT A LICENSE
HOW TO GET ALONG WITH OTHER AMERICANS:
Living
Next Door to 290 Million Folks Who Aren't Quite Like You.
IN TECHNOCRACY WE TRUST Most
Americans may profess Christianity but it's technocracy that
they practice
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WHAT THE PAST 25 YEARS HAVE COST
CORPORATIONS VS. AMERICA. The counter-revolution of corporations
against the American dream
WHOSE LAND IS IT, ANYWAY? Reflections on patriotism
HISTORY
OF THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT
CIVIL LIBERTIES QUOTATIONS
THE
CREEPING COUP
News items from post-constitutional
America.
THE
MILITARIZATION OF AMERICA
A FEW SIGNS OF A DEMOCRACY IN DEEP TROUBLE
THE HIDDEN FACTS ABOUT TERRORISM: WHAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT'S OWN REPORT
SAY
WORDS ABOUT FREEDOM QUOTATIONS ON FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY
HOW TO STAY FREE: AN EXCERPT FROM SAM SMITH'S GREAT AMERICAN POLITICAL
REPAIR MANUAL (WW NORTON)
FOOLS'
GOAL: ZERO TOLERANCE: How
infinite intolerance of some things -- but not others -- is damaging
our land
SOME
KEY WACO STORIES
GIULIANI ON ART, HITLER ON ART
MARTIAL LAW Excerpts from an an article in a defense
journal, Parameters
THE
CRASH OF AMERICA - In 1995, the author saw trouble coming.
THE
DRUG WAR
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NATIONAL POLLS
STATE
PRESIDENTIAL POLLS
STATEWIDE RACES
POLITICIAN ARCHIVES
ESSAYS: THE BUSH YEARS
SENATE VOTES
OPPOSING
& CREATING The twin tasks of a movement
POLITICS NEWS ARCHIVES
THE
REAL COSTS OF THE REAGAN-BUSH-CLINTON-BUSH YEARS
PUNK
AND PROTEST The
beat, busted, bruised, and bamboozled generation
THE RISE OF A LIBERAL ARISTOCRACY AND THE FALL
OF AMERICA: The
collapse of liberalism and what's it has cost the country
GREEN
THINGS
WHAT GREENS CAN DO DURING THE BUSH YEARS
THE CARE AND FEEDING OF A THIRD PARTY
An interview with
Sam Smith on the history of one of America's most durable third
parties.
UNEXAMINED POLITICS Life among the liberal fundamentalists
URBAN STATEHOOD: Why
American needs more states
A COOPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH: A statement of principles
for Americans who believe in common sense, common decency and
common ground.
CHANGING HOW URBAN PLANNING WORKS:
Two
charts that summarize what's wrong with urban planning and what
to do about it.
WHOSE LEFT IS IT ANYWAY?
THE PARTY'S OVER
HOW TO GET ALONG WITH OTHER AMERICANS:
Living
Next Door to 250 Million Folks Who Aren't Quite Like You.
CROSSOVER
POLITICS: A
chart that illustrates why conventional views of left and right
don't add up.
THE
NIXON STORY YOU NEVER HEARD
MEMO TO A NEW MAYOR Advice to a newly elected politician
WHAT PROGRESSIVES CAN DO DURING THE BUSH YEARS
WHAT GREENS CAN DO DURING THE BUSH YEARS
ALL IN THE FAMILY: What's happening in the wonderful world of political
nepotism
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION SCANDALS
SENATE VOTING RECORD
COUNTING THE VOTES RIGHT:
Ways to rig an election and what went
wrong in the 2000 election.
THE
BEST OF RUDY Some
of our favorite stories about Rudy Giuliani
HOW TO TELL IF YOU'RE STILL A LIBERAL: A quick test to see how far you've
strayed.
INSTANT POPULISM What with the media declaring Al Gore
a populist, this 1972 article on the past and prospects of populism
is timely again.
WILD
SHOTS: Some
facts about guns a lot of people don't want to hear.
HOW TO SAVE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION A 1995 article that foresaw the trouble ahead
BEHIND THE BUSHES: Those who think we were too hard on
Clinton might want to check out what we have to say about the
Bush family.
GLOBAL DUMBING: THE POLITICS OF ENTROPY
In this 1992 article,
everything from Rick Rockwell to George W. Bush is explained,
not to mention prescient
THE CASE AGAINST LEGALIZED BRIBERY: Our system of campaign
financing discussed in a speech by editor Sam Smith
HOW
I GOT FIRED AS A LIBERAL Your editor is one of the few certified
ex-liberals in Washington.Here's how it happened.
MOB POLITICS: Three decades of political
racketeering in chart form.
BUCKING THE SYSTEM: A chart that provides
a concise crash course on how Americans have won and kept their
freedoms.
BRINGING
POLITICS HOME: An excerpt from Shadows
of Hope on how politics has lost connection with people.
WAITING
FOR LEFTIES: How
liberals and the left hold up political change.
MORNING LINE: Our tout sheet on up-coming
elections.
SHADOWS OF HOPE: The book about Bill
Clinton the establishment didn't want you to read. While most
of the media was fawning over the newly elected president and
his wife, Review editor Sam Smith was checking out the facts.
The result was the most prophetic description of Clintonism and
the damage it would cause.
SOCIAL SECURITY: Our stories on Social
Security tell you things the major media won't, such as why the
Social Security panic is a scam.
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A SHORT HISTORY OF BLACK WASHINGTON
HOW CITIES BECAME BLACK AND POOR: THE HIDDEN STORY
URBAN STATEHOOD: Why America
needs more states.
SAVING THE CITY FROM ITSELF: This is this the full
version of an article on the American city, portions of which
have been published in various magazines and newspapers
URBAN
NEWS ARCHIVES
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GROUPS
EUROPEAN
GREENS
GREEN
PARTY OF U.S.
GREEN PARTIES WORLDWIDE
GREEN SHADOW CABINET
EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE
MEDIA
GREEN HORIZON
GREEN PAGES
READING
CRASHING
THE PARTY: NADER
ELECTION RESULTS 2002
DRIVING MR. NADER
GORE
LOSS NOT DUE TO NADER
GREEN
HISTORY
GREEN
HISTORY CHART
GREENS
IN OFFICE
GREEN OR BUST
GREEN
PLACE
GROWING GREEN
HOW
NADER WON
HISTORY
OF THE PROVOS
WHAT GREENS
CAN DO IN THE BUSH YEARS
WHY I RAN: A FORMER
GREEN ALDERMAN CRITIQUES THE LEFT
GREEN STUFF
GREEN
GOODIES
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THE IDEA MILL; Articles, essays and arguments of interest
to the lively mind
WORDS
AND MEANING: A 1981
essay by Sam Smith on America's 'failure of communications' and
what to do about it.
WHAT'S A HUMANITIES? Your editor becomes the resident philistine
on a humanities council
RECOVERED HISTORY: Tales from the memory hole
WHY THERE ARE SO MANY DRUG REFORM POLICY GROUPS: Adam Smith of the Drug Reform Coordination
Network explainst the proliferation of some 350 groups concerned
with drug policy reform
FIRE ARM INSURANCE John
Gear proposes a new approach to the gun issue.
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION The fair way to count votes. A fact sheet
and an article explaining how we could make our elections fairer.
ELECTING AN ATTORNEY
GENERAL Sam
Smith and Pentagon whistleblower Ernie Fitzgerald propose a constitutional
amendment to provide for an independent attorney general selected
in an off-year election.
THE OTHER WAY TO DEAL WITH THE NATIONAL
DEBT: What happens when you
let the government, rather than banks, print the money.
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SMALL SCHOOLS
BACK
TO SCHOOL: Memoirs of a parent association president
GRADUATION SPEECH: A talk given by the editor to some 8th graders.
LET 'EM PLAY:
The case for extra-curricular activities
PUNK AND PROTEST: Music and action
A REAL TEST FOR YOUR SCHOOL
OUR YOUTH ARCHIVES
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UNSOLVED MYSTERIES: BCCI, OKC, TWA 800 and
all the other acronyms of uncertainty.
THE CRASH OF TWA 800
SPY NEWS ARCHIVES
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THIRTEEN MYTHS ABOUT GENETIC ENGINEERING
POKER
PLAYER'S GUIDE
TO ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT
OUR ECOLOGY ARCHIVES
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