Like wine and cheese, liberals and libertarians should go together, but it hasn't happened and probably won't.

So while the United States, and a good deal of what we used to refer to as the Western World, move ever closer to insolvency, poverty, and the prospective collapse of democracy itself,...

The search giant Google is attracting criticism from those who see in that company's business practices a threat to professional journalism, old and new. The latest such comes in the form of a policy paper written by media attorney Kurt Wimmer, and published online by The Media Institute....

Because now, as always, it's important to practice understatement and civil discourse, let's put it this way: If you're not watching Breaking Bad you're a dope; and if you have watched it, but didn't like it, you're worse than a dope--you're a cretin, part of an army of such who...

Sorry to say, there are people in public life who, were hubris a lubricant, could forgo ambulation and just glide on down the road. Reed Hundt, the former chairman of the FCC, is one such person.

Hundt is back in the news these days because policies he clandestinely pursued...

Christian theologians refer to the first three books of the New Testament as the synoptic gospels. This, because of their similarities in content and order. The new religion of "media reform," whose principal tenet is that government needs to "save" journalism, is developing its own synoptic gospels -- the gospel...

Nothing is quite so inspiring as the sight of journalists, in high dudgeon, trashing the First Amendment. Such has been the rule since last Thursday, when the Supreme Court issued its opinion in the campaign finance case, Citizens United.

For the uninitiated, the cause of the hysteria, at places like...

Despite their general lack of experience or expertise in law, commerce, finance, or technology, people with journalistic backgrounds are these days testifying before Congress and regulatory agencies, sponsoring seminars, and writing papers in a broadly coordinated effort to influence laws and regulations that govern the media.

They are doing this,...

In the game of chess certain kinds of openings, usually involving the sacrifice of a pawn, are called gambits. When they work as intended the sacrifices pay off in the end. But whether they work or not, they are initiated in furtherance of a commitment to victory, and chess is...

Perhaps because of their declining prospects, much of the mainstream media are acting very hinky these days. On the one hand we have the spectacle of such as the Associated Press and Newsweek openly adopting opinion as their journalistic motif. While on the other we see newspapers, like The New...

Were one to design a political philosophy calculated to appeal to large numbers of "conservatives" and "liberals," it might look very much like contemporary libertarianism: tolerant and supportive of individual rights in matters ranging from sexual orientation to religion, and committed to the rule of law and free market capitalism.