Articles
"Trust and Disclosure in Special Prosecutor Investigations," Lawfare, Jan. 19, 2019
"What to Expect When You're Expecting a Mueller Report," Lawfare, Oct. 25, 2018
"Archibald Cox's Secret Proposal," Lawfare, Oct. 8, 2018
"Reinhold Niebuhr's Trump Prophecy," Society, Jan-Feb. 2017
"What Reinhold Niebuhr Can Tell Us About Donald Trump," Lawfare, Oct. 14, 2016
"The Truth Will Out," Desert Companion, March 2015
"Regulating Gatekeepers of Information: The Associated Press as a Common Carrier," UB Journal of Media Law and Ethics, winter-spring 2012.
"Death in Vegas," Las Vegas City Life, Oct. 20, 2011.
"Disciplining the British Tabloids: Mosley v. News Group Newspapers," Journal of Media Law and Ethics, summer-fall 2010.
"What's Entertainment? Notes Toward a Definition" (with Anthony Ferri), Studies in Popular Culture, fall 2010
Review of The Death of American Virtue, by Ken Gormley, Spectator (London), February 24, 2010
"Bodies Impolitic? Reading Cadavers," International Journal of Communication, February 2010
"Garland v. Torre and the Birth of Reporter's Privilege," Communication Law and Policy, spring 2010
"Why Americans Are Devout and Diverse But Not Divided," Christian Science Monitor, May 12, 2009
"Blessed Be the Newsmakers," Slate, February 11, 2009
Review of Nothing to Be Frightened Of, by Julian Barnes, JAMA, December 24/31, 2008
Review of Encyclopedia of American Journalism, edited by Stephen L. Vaughn, Wilson Quarterly, summer 2008
"Prenates, Postmorts, and Bell-Curve Dignity," Hastings Center Reports, July-August 2008
"The Day the TV Died," Wilson Quarterly, spring 2008
"The New Death: Baby Boomers Put Their Own Spin on Marking the End of Life," Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2007
"Justice Thomas on Compelled Speech," First Amendment Center, October 2007
Review of The Rake, by William F. Buckley, The Wall Street Journal, August 3, 2007
"Outsourcing Justice? That's Obscene," The Washington Post, July 15, 2007
"Getting to the Source: The Curious Evolution of Reporters' Privilege," Slate, December 26, 2003
"John Updike Comes to Rockville," Wilson Quarterly, winter 2003
"The Jesus Market: Christianity May Be Struggling in the Public Square, But It's Prospering in the Public Bazaar," The Weekly Standard, December 16, 2002
"The Unfaithful," Washington Post Magazine, July 29, 2001
"Flipping His Liddy," Slate, February 5, 2001
"The American Jury System," Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, 2000
"Citizenship in Conflict," Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, 1998
"The Death of Geography, the Rise of Anonymity, and the Internet," The American Enterprise, March-April 1996
"National Service: Getting Things Done?" Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, 1996
"Realigning Journalism with Democracy: The Hutchins Commission, Its Time, and Ours," Annenberg Washington Program, 1995
"Who Is the Journalist's Client?" Media Ethics, fall 1995
"The Ancient History of the Internet" (with Edwin Diamond). American Heritage, October 1995
"And Then There Was Usenet," American Heritage, October 1995
"Vote for the Victims," Wall Street Journal, November 4, 1994
"United States v. Superman," National Review, February 11, 1991
"Political Ads: Journalists as Jurors," The American Enterprise, July-August 1990
"The Nashua Debate," Proceedings 1981-1982, Institute of Politics, Harvard University
Affiliations
Editor, International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law
Advisory Editor, Society
Board Member, Black Mountain Institute