Kimmel Is Back, But Trump's Attacks on the First Amendment Aren't Over

It’s difficult to think of Jimmy Kimmel as a canary or imagine Stephen Colbert in a coal mine, but here we are.

Having worked in late-night television during the presidency of our country’s most revered Republican icon, Ronald Reagan, I know firsthand how bizarre the harassment of talk-show hosts by the White House really is. A lot of the Late Night With David Letterman staff weren’t fans of Reagan or his policies. Therefore we regularly took satirical jabs at his expense. Yet we never heard a word of complaint from anyone in the Reagan administration. Ditto the corporate structure running either of the networks on which Mr. Letterman exercised every version of free speech.

I actually once shepherded a piece on the Letterman NBC show called “Meet the Censors,” in which we intention