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1 month ago | 
truthonthemarket.com | Asheesh Agarwal |Reiko AOKI |Alden Abbott |Mario Zúñiga
April 4 marked the end of a notable week in global competition policy. The American Bar Association’s (ABA) Antitrust Section held its annual spring meeting, while Y Combinator hosted a virtual “Little Tech Competition Summit.” At the same time, Congress held two competition hearings, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) hosted an event on competition and speech, and senior antitrust enforcers spoke at an event put on by Capitol Forum and FGS Global.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Jodi Bruhn |John Berlau |George Hawley |Asheesh Agarwal
It’s early spring in Canada, four months after US President Donald J. Trump announced he would be imposing a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods. A few days later, he offered to make Canada the 51st state. To say that many Canadians have not taken this well would be an understatement. A good portion of us appear to have lost our minds. Exhibit A: On February 20, a Member of Parliament introduced a petition to revoke the citizenship of tech billionaire Elon Musk, whose mother is from Saskatchewan.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Robert G. Natelson |John Berlau |George Hawley |Asheesh Agarwal
Even before President Trump invoked powers under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, the historical meaning of “alien enemy” had become a topic of controversy, because the distinction between an alien enemy and an alien friend is also relevant in the context of immigration and birthright citizenship.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Peggy Noonan |Haley Strack |George Hawley |Asheesh Agarwal
When Jackie Kennedy died, Peggy Noonan distilled America’s love for its First Lady into a little over a dozen paragraphs, nearly all of them perfect. “A nation watched, and would never forget” how Jackie carried herself the weekend of her husband’s murder, Noonan wrote.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Matt Grossmann |David Hopkins |George Hawley |Asheesh Agarwal
The modern conservative movement’s antipathy toward academia was present at the moment of its birth. William F. Buckley became a national figure thanks to his 1951 book, God and Man at Yale, which attacked his alma mater for abandoning its Christian heritage and embracing left-wing economics. In the late 1980s, Allan Bloom became an important public intellectual because of The Closing of the American Mind, which argued that universities had abandoned the quest for truth.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Mark Lilla |James Patterson |Titus Techera |Asheesh Agarwal
with Mark Lilla, hosted by James M. Patterson The drive to pursue wisdom is engrained in every human being, right? So many have believed. But in his new book, Ignorance and Bliss, Mark Lilla argues that a certain “will to ignorance” is also part of the human experience. Like Plato’s Thrasymachus, many in the modern world want to throw up their hands in resignation rather than commit themselves to the pursuit of truth.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
truthonthemarket.com | Asheesh Agarwal |Kristian Stout |Ben Sperry |Mario Zúñiga
Later this fall, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia will hold hearings to determine the proper remedy in the Google search case. Among other options, the court could restrict Google’s ability to sign exclusive distribution contracts, force it to share data with competitors, or even break Google apart into two or more companies.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Asheesh Agarwal
Last week, a federal court largely sided with the Department of Justice and most states in their antitrust lawsuit against Google. The court found that Google has monopoly power in the markets for general search services and text ads, that Google enhanced that power via exclusive distribution agreements that set Google as the default search engine, and that those agreements led to higher ad prices. What does the district court’s decision portend for the future of tech? Here are five things to know.
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May 6, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Asheesh Agarwal
Last week, a federal district court heard closing arguments in the government’s expansive antitrust lawsuit against Google. In the suit, the Department of Justice (DOJ), Colorado and other states allege that Google unlawfully maintains monopolies in the market for general internet searches, mainly through contracts in which computer and mobile device manufacturers agree to set Google’s search engine as the default option.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
wfmz.com | Asheesh Agarwal
The following is a condensed version of "Spinning Through Time" by Asheesh Agarwal, published at Law & Liberty. What would it feel like to live in Middle Earth? In its adaptation of Robert Jordan’s classic series, Amazon Prime immerses viewers in the world of Wheel of Time (WoT) as well as any production in recent memory. For the uninitiated, WoT could be described as a mix of Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones, along with a touch of Party of Five.
