Foundation
A Story About the Collapse of American Journalism, Part 9
Man, it was beautiful when it worked. Even when it was underfunded and imperfect, when it worked, it made our communities better.
Foundation
Man, it was beautiful when it worked. Even when it was underfunded and imperfect, when it worked, it made our communities better.
Foundation
The Muckrakers demonstrated the inevitability of a free press by sticking a finger in the eye of power even before Sullivan protected it.
Foundation
Jefferson, Madison, the Resolutions, and the Long Road to NYT v Sullivan
Foundation
Wherein you can be charged with sedition for voicing a political opinion. Or just joking about John Adams’s copious ass.
Foundation
Wherein Congress gives an Executive power over immigration and freedom of expression before an important election.
Foundation
It’s 1787 and modern air conditioning won’t be invented for another 115 years, so August in Philadelphia is probably hot as shit.
Foundation
Andrew Hamilton was a Philadelphia lawyer with a severe case of gout, which is relevant only because that shit can make you ornery, and I think it did.
Foundation
That’s right. There was no Constitution, no American Democracy, and George Washington still had his wooden baby teeth.
Foundation
Those are the things that hit at our souls, and they are the reasons we care about the things that hit at our wallets.