Interesting: by “Internet” do you mean the telecom network it was built on? Or something else? The telecom network was highly regulated. Digital platforms less so. Are you referring to what activists once called the “digital divide”? “had to be designed”? By whom?Jo Guldi

How about this? academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8…

Annals of anti-monopoly: my piece on how 20th c. telephone publicists shaped the history books, and set up a major center for the study of U.S. history at Harvard. Can expertise be mobilized to promote the political agenda of Big Tech? History says yes. promarket.org/2024/09/13/how…

White, _Oliver Wendell Holmes_—for context, Snyder _House of Truth_—Budiansky (mixed reviews) for a quick read?

Annals of anti-monopoly: my HNN essay on John Sherman, Big Tech, and the forgotten backstory of U.S. anti-trust law. Hint: the regulation of platform monopolies began earlier than is often assumed—and was surprisingly effective at fostering innovation. historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-ot…

Annals of anti-monopoly: The meaning of monopoly has shifted over time. Pete Roady’s _Contest over National Security_ shows how in the 1930s and 1940s the related catch phrase “ national security” was stripped of its association with domestic reform. wwwww.hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…

Annals of anti-monopoly: The Founders never intended the U.S. Postal Service to be managed like a businessw washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…

Annals of anti-monopoly: why privatize the post office? Five journalists weigh in: doi.org/10.7916/jd8v-d…

"Plutocracy is its own kind of dictatorship. When companies larger, wealthier and more powerful than most world governments threaten individual liberty with coercive private taxation and regulation, it threatens our way of life." Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General, 2024

Annals of anti-monopoly: U.S. anti-monopoly policy facilitated the postwar transformation of German and Japanese business — a regulatory triumph worth celebrating.

Annals of anti-monopoly: Here is a question: Has U.S. anti-trust policy on balance promoted or discouraged Schumpeterian competition? Schumpeter thought it did not, but he did not live to see the achievements of anti-trust policy under Eisenhower. Might he have been…mistaken?

Annals of anti-monopoly: 19th c anti-monopolies often looked to government ownership as a solution to the problems posed by network industries.

Annals of anti-monopoly: “the uniform power to regulate these enterprises [eg railroads], if they partake in the least of a monopoly character, must be equally extensive with the territory they occupy.” S. Sterne, _Constitutional History_ (1882). Morgan Ricks Matt Stoller

Listing for open search in Columbia’s Ph. D. program in communications “We are particularly interested in candidates pursuing pioneering research agendas in:  Science, Technology, and Society (STS); media law and policy; media history; global media….” apply.interfolio.com/162364

Annals of anti-monopoly: required reading

Annals of anti-monopoly: up on Thursday

Annals of anti-monopoly: Here is my review (critical yet appreciative) of Dan Schiller’s monumental history of 20th c. U.S. telecommunications policy. Schiller is particularly suggestive on the FCC in the 1930s, a neglected topic, and on consent decrees. academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-ar…

Annals of anti-monopoly: This just dropped today. When did Americans start seriously worrying about media concentration? Hint: in the 1930s. How did this debate shape media coverage of the Second World War? promarket.org/2025/06/17/how…

Good stuff from Richard R. John promarket.org/2025/06/17/how…

Annals of anti-monopoly: Sven Beckert’s long-awaited libel history of capitalism will soon be between two covers.