The renewed debate over the value of labor unions on the right forgets some hard-won truths.
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Growing conservative interest in new models of labor organization must likewise be suppressed, it seems, lest they prove too successful.
Making antitrust great again in order to chasten Big Tech requires using theories that were abandoned for good reason.
The modern antitrust regime is more than capable of adapting to new realities in the economy.
A more appropriate intellectual foundation would imply less, not more, antitrust action.
Pretending there is no competition problem in the tech sector could ironically hasten the demise of antitrust’s consumer-welfare standard.
Neo-Brandeisian jurisprudence places an unaccountable judiciary at the commanding heights of the economy, subordinating the market to the state.
We should contemplate American socialism’s fate: it deepens individualism and statism, and is not the rival but the patsy of state capitalism.
Socialism cannot discover what freedom is and it cannot address the social question.
Sanders’ “democratic socialism” seems more like an attempt at realignment rather than a move toward revolution.
In the small but somewhat potent mix of bourgeois socialists, there is only room for the conservation and propagation of ideology.
Today’s “socialist” turn reflects a desperate desire to stop the clock—and a wounded recognition that the hands will keep on spinning.