There is a lot of chatter among conservatives (well, among some conservatives) about finally dispensing with chatter and moving on to action. We’ve had a lot of diagnosis. Where’s the treatment? As a first offering in this big project, I’d like to propose three courses of action. None is original. This pleases me. Novelty in human affairs is often—I’d go so far as to say “generally”—counter-productive. My first proposal is to follow the advice of Laurence Silberman, the eminent jurist who was appointed to the DC Court of Appeals by Ronald Reagan, and scrap the landmark 1964 Supreme Court decision The New York Times v. Sullivan. I said “landmark,” but forbore to put the word in ironical quotation marks, as Silberman does, not because it doesn’t deserve the epistemic deflation they impart but because mentioning it this way allows me to give more full-throated support to Silberman’s skepticism about the …