Food is the theme of this season, in antitrust as it is on dinner tables.

When Rep. Mike Johnson became speaker, it unleashed a furious search by the media, lobbyists, and political researchers to unearth every position the Louisiana Congressman has ever taken. What has been Rep. Johnson’s position on tax reform? On defense spending? On high school students who stick chewed bubble gum under their desks?

The Wall Street Journal reports that the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) reveals that companies hit the ISS-Glass Lewis duopoly with at least 64 complaints to the SEC about inaccurate proxy adviser recommendations.

On Friday, Lina Khan stepped into the lion’s den of the Federalist Society – and received a big wet kiss from the lion.

On Friday, 11:15 a.m. Eastern, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan will appear before the Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention. I commend Chair Khan for speaking at the event and for her willingness to take questions. 

Robert Eccles asks in Forbes that if Jim Jordan can call As You Sow and other members of the ESG network a cartel that violates the Sherman Antitrust Act, why can’t the same be said for the American Petroleum Institute?

The ever-thought-provoking Joel Kotkin has penned a dark piece about America’s industrial decline – promoted by ESG – positioning us to lose in a global struggle for economic and strategic dominance with China.

Some headlines write themselves. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday subpoenaed As You Sow, one of the powerful NGOs at the heart of the spider’s web of non-profit activists, investment funds and asset managers that have been colluding behind the scenes to use ESG mandates for self-dealing and ideological domination.

Are Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan and her minions being deliberately obtuse in an effort to puff up their antitrust lawsuit against Amazon?

The Department of Justice’s move against Google rests on some familiarly flawed logic.