ROB NATELSON: Rebutting the Claim that an “Anti-Corruption” Principle Should Re-Write the First Amendment. “Law professors are overwhelmingly left-of-center, and they spend an undue amount of time trying to justify nearly unlimited federal power. Sometimes they torture constitutional history to do so.”

If there’s really an “anti-corruption” principle in the Constitution, its honest application to academia, and media, would not produce the results its advocates anticipate.