Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.

The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.

If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.

Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.

The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.