A prominent gathering in Georgetown Gregg Herken's new book suggests journalists got cozy with influential individuals during the Cold War January 5, 2015 By James Boylan
Brief Encounters April 29, 2008 By James Boylan Short reviews of books about Tarbell’s muckraking, the cost of war, and that headless body in a topless bar
Brief Encounters February 26, 2008 By James Boylan Short reviews of books: Woodward and Bernstein, the U.S. record on torture, and media populism
May I Speak Freely? February 14, 2008 By Aryeh Neier Anthony Lewis on the First Amendment’s march to victory
Appetite for Fear February 12, 2008 By David Hajdu David Everitt’s history of the pamphleteers who hunted ‘pinkos’
Big Fish and Small Fry January 24, 2008 By Carlin Romano In his new book, Robert McChesney overstates the threat to democracy posed by corporate media
Brief Encounters December 27, 2007 By James Boylan Short reviews of books: the AP, the I. Lewis Libby trial, White House communications, and abuses of civil liberties
Cowboys and Damsels November 29, 2007 By Bree Nordenson Susan Faludi oversimplifies post-9/11 America
Brief Encounters August 14, 2007 By James Boylan Short reviews of books about political power and the press, the changing role of the editorial, selling anxiety to women, and bearing witness to a changing century
Norman Pearlstine, Company Man July 26, 2007 By Douglas McCollam An editor revisits his role in Plamegate
Fountains, Faucets, and Leaks July 12, 2007 By Anthony Marro Novak on the care and feeding of primary sources
The Flaw of Averages June 25, 2007 By Rick Perlstein How polls obscure America’s many social patchworks
A Place at the Table June 21, 2007 By Cynthia Tucker Setting the record straight on early black journalists
