The Department of Justice’s latest antitrust lawsuit against Google is predicated on correcting what many see as the damage that a few, big technology-based companies are inflicting on our country.
OP-ED
January 19, 2023
Responding to President Biden on Big Tech
He touts ‘legislation to hold Big Tech accountable.’ But accountable to whom? Jan. 19, 2023 10:32 am ET Some 720…
OP-ED
January 12, 2023
Time for Antitrust Action Against the Climate Cartel
COMMENTARY | By Robert H. Bork, Jr. | January 12, 2023 President Biden has blamed high energy prices on Saudi…
OP-ED
December 20, 2022
Will woke antitrust become the law without a vote?
By Robert H. Bork, Jr. | December 20, 2022 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), a newly reelected senator, on Thursday issued a public plea…
PODCAST
December 1, 2022
APPLE ACTING AS AGENT OF STATE FOR CHINA: Bork Jr. On Govt. Targeting Twitter; Silent On Apple
OP-ED
November 22, 2022
Antitrust in the Hands of Biden’s Pen and Phone
COMMENTARY | By Robert H. Bork Jr. | November 22, 2022 The White House is urging the Senate to use the…
OP-ED
October 24, 2022
Censorship Can’t Fit Under ‘Consumer Harm’
Using antitrust experts to regulate social-media content is like asking brain surgeons to build a rocket ship. Oct. 24, 2022…
BLOG
October 6, 2022
What’s so wrong about ‘fairness’? A lot.
October 6, 2022 The Republican Attorneys General Association will meet this week in Miami to debate if we should retain…
PODCAST
September 19, 2022
Big Is Not Always Bad
September 19, 2022 Today on the Doug Collins Podcast, I sit down with Robert Bork, Jr., who heads up The…
BLOG
September 18, 2022
Questions Senators Should Ask Kanter and Khan
September 18, 2022 Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Amy Klobuchar will preside over a hearing of the antitrust subcommittee of the Senate…
PODCAST
August 30, 2022
Why “Antitrust”, Often Means Anti-Consumer
August 30, 2022 INTERVIEW ON THE PRICE OF BUSINESS SHOW, MEDIA PARTNER OF THIS SITE. Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally…
OP-ED
August 27, 2022
Antitrust Law: Washington’s Bad Example for the States
August 27, 2022 Former President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, “the Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you…
PODCAST
August 10, 2022
Will Conservatives Get Led Astray by Klobuchar on Anti-Trust?
August 10, 2022 Republicans have embraced anti-trust legislation as a way to fight Big Tech censorship – but it will…
OP-ED
July 29, 2022
Sen. John Kennedy and the ‘Breakup Big Tech’ bill
Baton Rouge Reporter | by Robert H. Bork, Jr. | published July 29, 2022 John Kennedy has quite made an impression…
OP-ED
July 29, 2022
Will Lindsey Graham cave to Klobuchar’s socialist antitrust bill?
Columbia Standard | by Robert H. Bork, Jr. | published July 29, 2022 Sen. Lindsey Graham voted with four Republican colleagues…
OP-ED
July 16, 2022
Will the Senate Allow China to Pillage American Data?
National Review | by Robert H. Bork, Jr. | published July 16, 2022 The hopelessly vague language of Amy Klobuchar’s bill…
OP-ED
July 6, 2022
Lina Khan’s Demolition Derby at the FTC
Washington D.C. Business Daily | by Robert H. Bork, Jr. | published July 6, 2022 Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina…
OP-ED
July 6, 2022
Why Are U.S. Regulators Helping the EU Hobble Top American Companies?
National Review | by Robert H. Bork, Jr. | published July 6, 2022 Unless Congress intervenes, the Biden administration is…
OP-ED
June 17, 2022
Will Ted Cruz Take a Sharp Left Turn on Antitrust Policy?
National Review | by Robert H. Bork, Jr. | published June 17, 2022 Conservatives in Congress have good reason to…
OP-ED
June 9, 2022
Will Republican Senators Vote for the End of Capitalism as We Know It?
RealClearPolitics | by Robert H. Bork, Jr. | published June 09, 2022 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has promised Sen….
BLOG
May 15, 2022
Larry Summers Links Antitrust Crusade Against Inflation to “Science Denial”
May 15, 2022 Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is a liberal no one should mistake for a Chicago-School economic conservative….
BLOG
April 29, 2022
Voters Want Antitrust to Protect Consumers, Without Partisan Politics
April 29, 2022 Some moderate and conservative legislators seem to be acting in the belief that their voters support the…
OP-ED
March 16, 2022
Economists Debunk Progressive Claims That U.S. Run by Monopolies
Real Clear Politics (Commentary) By Robert H. Bork Jr. March 16, 2022 Last summer, President Biden signed 72 executive orders to…
BLOG
December 17, 2021
What Americans Really Think About Antitrust
December 17, 2021 While national polls show President Biden’s approval rating slipping down into the 30s, boosters of his administration…
BLOG
December 16, 2021
AEP POLL: Voters want antitrust to protect consumers, without partisan politics
December 16, 2021 Some moderate and conservative legislators seem to be acting in the belief that their voters support the…
OP-ED
October 31, 2021
‘Monopoly’ Facebook Is Losing Ground
By Robert H. Bork Jr.Oct. 31, 2021 5:41 pm ET Teens are shifting from Instagram to TikTok even as critics claim…
OP-ED
October 14, 2021
China and the U.S. Sabotage Their Own Tech Companies
October 14, 2021 China is investing $1.4 trillion to overtake the West in critical technologies by 2025. Beijing aims to…
BLOG
October 7, 2021
AEP Joins Coalition of 30 Groups to Urge Senate Republicans to Reject Democrat Antitrust Trap
October 7, 2021 Americans for Tax Reform and a coalition of 30 conservative and free market groups and activists joined a…
WEBINAR
September 28, 2021
AEP PRESENTS: The Future of Antitrust with Sen. Chuck Grassley
THE ANTITRUST EDUCATION PROJECT PRESENTS: THE FUTURE OF ANTITRUST WITH SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY September 28, 2021 Robert H. Bork, Jr.,…
WEBINAR
September 22, 2021
The Antitrust Paradox: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
September 22, 2021 On September 15, 2021, the Federalist Society presented this special day-long, in-person conference on Judge Robert Bork’s The Antitrust…
OP-ED
September 8, 2021
Biden’s Antitrust Demagoguery Will Drive Inflation, Not Cure It
September 8, 2021 The Biden administration, finally beginning to worry about the political impact of the rising cost of food,…
BLOG
August 25, 2021
FTC Tries to Dress Up “Naked” Mannequin of a Filing
August 25, 2021 There has never been a significant antitrust ruling against a company that offers a service at a…
BLOG
August 19, 2021
FTC’s Facebook Redo Adds Heft, But Not Much in New Facts or Logic
August 19, 2021 Ever have the teacher tell you to redo your homework? What did you do? You probably made…
BLOG
August 13, 2021
Can Startups Become Commercially Viable Without Acquisitions?
August 13, 2021 For decades, the prospect of a dream acquisition by a large company has driven startups to innovate…
PODCAST
July 17, 2021
LISTEN: Robert H. Bork, Jr., on Moore Money Podcast
July 17, 2021
WEBINAR
July 13, 2021
WATCH: Capitalism Is Going To Become Fossilized: Robert Bork Jr. on Fox Business
Watch the latest video at foxbusiness.com July 13, 2021 Our President, Robert H. Bork, Jr., discussed on Fox Business’ Larry…
OP-ED
July 12, 2021
Joe Biden’s Antitrust Paradox: Where’s the Consumer Welfare?
By Robert H. Bork Jr.July 12, 2021 1:20 pm ET His new competition policy is a power grab that will hurt…
BLOG
July 7, 2021
AEP Response to the House Judiciary Republican Agenda for Taking on Big Tech
AEP’s President, Robert H. Bork, Jr.: July 7, 2021 What’s been needed all along is a way to protect conservative…
BLOG
June 29, 2021
Lawrence Summers: Khan’s Antitrust Approach “the Way to American Failure” Stick with Policies that Best Benefit Consumers
June 29, 2021 Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers tells Bloomberg that FTC Chair Lina Khan’s approach to antitrust “is the…
BLOG
June 29, 2021
Tim Wu Proves the Peter Principle “Authoritarian Proposals in the Language of ‘Freedom’ and ‘Openness'”
June 29, 2021 Elizabeth Nolan Brown has an insightful piece in Reason on Tim Wu, the “neo-Brandesian,” “big is bad” antitrust theorist now…
BLOG
June 28, 2021
Judge Boasberg Kicks Letitia James to the Curb
June 28, 2021 A federal judge granted Facebook’s request to dismiss the massive antitrust suit filed by the Federal Trade…
BLOG
June 23, 2021
Sens. Mike Lee and Chuck Grassley: Team Act Centers Around Consumer Welfare Standard
June 23, 2021 While the House focuses on five antitrust, anti-Big Tech bills supported by Democrats – with the help…
BLOG
June 23, 2021
Jordan and Meadows on the House Antitrust Tower of Wokeness
June 23, 2021 “The radical left sees antitrust law as its vehicle to fundamentally transform America,” declare Jim Jordan, ranking House…
WEBINAR
May 5, 2021
The Antitrust Paradox: A Conversation with Sen. Mike Lee and Robert Bork, Jr. Hosted by the Federalist Society
May 5, 2021 On April 21, 2021, the Federalist Society’s Corporations, Securities, & Antitrust Practice Group hosted a teleforum titled “The Antitrust…
BLOG
May 4, 2021
In The News: Republicans Should Continue to Champion the Consumer Welfare Standard
May 4, 2021 “The Left has long wanted to destroy the prevailing “consumer welfare standard,” a concept promulgated by conservative…
BLOG
April 29, 2021
FTC’s Action on Illumina Vertical Merger a Sign of Sea Change in Antitrust
April 29, 2021 Regulators and jurists alike have come to accept – for decades now – that vertical mergers are…
BLOG
April 27, 2021
What Antitrust Defendants Can Learn from Qualcomm’s Victory
April 27, 2021 In this era of antitrust overdrive, what strategies can overcome overzealous regulators and unsympathetic judges? Many of…
BLOG
April 22, 2021
Republican Senators Must Choose Lee Over Hawley
April 22, 2021 This morning, several Republican senators in the Senate Commerce Committee hearing sounded sympathetic to Lina Khan’s nomination…
BLOG
April 13, 2021
Sen. Hawley’s Big Government Power Grab
April 13, 2021 Is Sen. Josh Hawley’s extreme lurch to the left the first sign that the Republican Party is…
BLOG
April 6, 2021
Four Reasons Why Neo-Brandeis Is Not Ready for Prime Time
April 6, 2021 Alden Abbott, senior research fellow of the Mercatus Center, advances four reasons in a detailed study on “neo-Brandeisian” legislation,…
OP-ED
April 2, 2021
Abbott and Miller on Antitrust in National Review
April 2, 2021 It shouldn’t be news that The National Review came out in favor of the Consumer Welfare Standard in antitrust…
BLOG
March 29, 2021
Tim Wu’s Doubts About Free Speech
March 29, 2021 Hat tip to Matt Taibbi for pointing out that Columbia law professor Timothy Wu, now appointed to the National…
BLOG
March 27, 2021
Antitrust Investigator: Deep Pockets Gobble with Impunity
March 27, 2021 Kathleen S. O’Neill, senior director of investigations and litigation for the Antitrust Division, told Law 360 that merger filings…
BLOG
March 16, 2021
Sen. Hawley and the Urge to Merge
March 16, 2021 Sen. Amy Klobuchar, chair of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, is honing legislation to recast antitrust…
The Consumer Welfare Standard
The Consumer Welfare Standard holds that the logical goal embedded in
antitrust law is “economic efficiency” – delivering lower prices, heightened
innovation and more choices for consumers.
The Antitrust Education Project is dedicated to protecting the
Consumer Welfare Standard as a neutral and fair principle, a
framework that drives innovation, respects democracy, and is in
the short- and long-term interests of the American consumer.
Featured Video:
What is the Consumer
Welfare Standard?
