David McGarry

Jan 16, 2025 | townhall.com | David McGarry

Apparently, economic populism buys elections these days. The message that a politically embedded and culturally segregated elite class has profited serially at the expense of everyday Americans is high-value political currency. That the notion has broad political and emotional resonance does not, however, evidence its truth — but let that go for the moment. Another question is precisely what these tribunes of the people do once they reach office.

Dec 29, 2024 | spectator.org | David McGarry

As Republicans ride triumphantly into the 119th Congress, they confront a choice on technology policy: free markets and free speech, or heavy-handed, censorial technocracy. On most issues, the GOP ranks stand united against the sorts of overspending and central planning that characterized the Biden era. The party broadly agrees that energy production must be deregulated, tax cuts delivered, and employers and workers left free to contract as they choose, to mention just a few areas.

Nov 26, 2024 | lucianne.com | David McGarry

Original ArticlePosted By: 4250Luis, 11/26/2024 5:59:27 AMWatching President Joe Biden's antitrust agencies carry on, one wonders what economic function the government's lawyers believe themselves to be fulfilling. The Department of Justice (DOJ)'s Antitrust Division, in its pursuit of Google Search, all but begs observers to raise this question. A district judge found for the government in August, ruling that Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Nov 26, 2024 | townhall.com | David McGarry

Watching President Joe Biden’s antitrust agencies carry on, one wonders what economic function the government’s lawyers believe themselves to be fulfilling. The Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Antitrust Division, in its pursuit of Google Search, all but begs observers to raise this question. A district judge found for the government in August, ruling that Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Nov 20, 2024 | issuesinsights.com | David McGarry

An odd coalition has formed on questions of children’s online safety. This coalition fuses conservatives to the most technocratic of progressives — the kind of statists with whom conservatives would never ordinarily ally. The soldering iron is an entirely good-faith concern for youth online. Progressives, all too typically, have proffered policies antithetical to free markets and innovation, free speech, privacy and cybersecurity, parental rights, and good governance.