Who doesn’t love academic research about porn? A recent study by Benjamin G. Edelman, Harvard prof and former student, found that if you live in a “red state,” you’re more likely to subscribe to a porn site than if you live in a “blue state.” And by “red sta...

“This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,� by Drew Gilpin Faust, has won the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize....

Since without university presses, nerd types like us wouldn't have anything to read, we're glad that there are still some stores dedicated to putting forth what we're putting out, front and center (like literally, on the front table). Among these......

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

SO DAMN MUCH MONEY The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government By Robert G. Kaiser Knopf. 398 pp. $27.95 "Earmarks" and "pork" have become rallying cries against the failures of our government. The Office of Management and Budget, defining an earmark as spending that members ......

I haven’t been blogging much lately because, along with my PFF colleagues Berin Szoka and Adam Marcus, I’m working on a lengthy paper about the importance of Section 230 to Internet freedom. Section 230 is the sometimes-forgotten portion of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that shi...

Over the next few months, this country will engage in the first serious national discussion on health care in 15 years. Most of the talk will be about ways to make medical insurance available to all U.S. citizens. There will be a fair amount, too, about the need to make the hodgepodge "system" of......