The most universal press bias is to exaggerate the importance of whatever is being claimed or reported. Don’t underestimate the role this played in Russiagate. For CNN and MSNBC, the collusion story was a commercial godsend.

When you’re not thinking with your brain, you’re thinking with the brain of your milieu. Virtue signaling is almost a nondescriptive term if you ask any psychologist or, increasingly, an economist: People are intensely social animals. Everything we do is about display. This also played a role in the media...