Assaulted by a daily torrent of news and commentary, most of the general public is only dimly aware of the downhill slide of journalism in the US. But it’s disastrous: in the past two decades, the total number of journalists has shrunk dramatically…

The popular perspective on the First Amendment is absolutist. “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” Seems straightforward. But spending any amount of time in the scholarship—legal, historical, and philosophical—quickly disabuses one of this adolescent view…

A review of Hate Inc.
(Author: Matt Taibbi)

Journalist Matt Taibbi’s explanations for the ever-ascending roar of political media are mostly not new. Media fragmentation over the decades has led to silos …