FLOTSAM & JETSAM

Essays by Sam Smith, Editor of the Progressive Review

Monday, August 11, 2025

Maine news

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Our daily Maine news 
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

The passing wonder of fame

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  Sam Smith – I have become fascinated by the extent of coverage being given the murder of the CEO of United Healthcare. For one thing, I ha...
Saturday, June 08, 2024

Tales from the Attic: Getting started in civil rights

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  Note: Some of this was written before the term Negro was replaced by the term black .  Sam Smith, 2010 - There was a story that wound i...
Thursday, June 06, 2024

The difference between dumb and mean

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Sam Smith, 2014 - One thing that I have known hardly anything about are those who use trans to describe their gender or sexuality.  In fact...

Tales from the Attic

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  ACTIVISM Our most notorious party  I quit  ARTS & HUMANITIES Five years of failure What's a humanities? My brief ca...

Tales from the Attic: Things my father never told me

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  Sam Smith - After World War II broke out, my father, who had worked for the New Deal from almost the beginning and was then over 40, went ...
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