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With each new communication medium comes new opportunities for politicians to get themselves into trouble. Congress demanded that letters from envoys to the French government be turned over in the XYZ Affair, thwarting President John Adams’s desire to maintain a tenuous peace with France. The leak of the Zimmermann telegram helped push the U.S. into World War I—the opposite of what its German author intended. And the tapes that President Richard Nixon used to record conversations in the Oval Office helped drive him out of it.

We live in what my colleague Faith Hill has pronounced the Age of th

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