POWELL SQUARED. Two pieces on FCC chairman Michael Powell. In the new Phoenix, I've got an essay that analyzes how the one-time libertarian technocrat morphed into the censor-in-chief. In the New York Times, Stephen Labaton traces the same devolution.

PUNK ZIMMY. Did you know that the Ramones once did a cover of Bob Dylan's "My Back Pages"? Me neither. Get yourself over to Coverville and find out more.