Repression of the residents of Zimbabwe and Francois Mitterand's right to keep his mistress private were my two.
I liked that in the essays, it seems one can go almost anywhere, provided there are examples and solid logic tying the example & counterexample together in the final paragraph. If you like WW2, I'd go with that. I was wondering if the same reader reads both essays? I'd tried to mix things up to some extent (different intro phrases) just in case.