I think that the connection between antitrust law and constitutional regime is important; however, it is rarely made. To the extent that these platforms are dominant and thus have complete control over some aspects of digital social life like Twitter for microblogging or Google for search or Facebook for social networking, they start to approximate to a state Professor Frank Pasquale pointed out in a conversation with Lénárd Sándor, researcher at the National University of Public Service.
Brexit is best understood as a narrow majority of the British people asserting that their national identity was more important than their European identity. But I do think it will have to be resolved one way or another. Europe cannot endure, permanently half national and half supra-national - William Voegeli pointed out in an conversation with Lénárd Sándor, researcher of the National University of Public Service.
William VOEGELI is senior editor of the Claremont Review of Booksand author of two books: Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State (Encounter, 2010); and The Pity Party: A Mean-Spirited Diatribe Against Liberal Compassion (Broadside, 2014). After receiving a doctorate in political science from Loyola University in Chicago he was a program officer for the John M. Olin Foundation. In 2016 Voegeli was the William E. Simon Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy.