Under what circumstances principals should censor high-school journalists strikes me as a tricky question–indeed, a question that may not admit of a principled answer–although Richard Just makes a good case that the kids should have a lot of leeway. Just does not, however, make a strong case that the Supreme Court ought to be second-guessing the principals’ decisions. Instead he quotes the late Justice William Brennan at his most gaseous, claiming that principals who censor students are failing to “inculcating in [our] youth an appreciation for the cherished democratic liberties that our Constitution guarantees.” That passage is a lesson in itself, in question-begging.