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The Book Report: Reviews from Washington Post critic Ron Charles (May 9)
By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles
With summer on the horizon, you may be looking for a new book to savor over vacation. Here are just a few you might enjoy: Penguin Gold Diggers (Penguin), a debut novel by Sanjena Sathian, has already been picked up by Mindy Kaling for an upcoming TV series. This effervescent social satire is about the children of Indian immigrants who are determined to succeed in America while honoring their parents culture.
The narrator is a high school boy who discovers that the Indian American girl next door has figured out a magical way to melt down gold jewelry and drink it to ingest all the dreams and hopes invested in that shiny bling.
In the Biden era, the Reaganite consensus is finally breaking down.
Illustration by Tim Lahan
In a 1981 speech to the boards of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, President Ronald Reagan expressed one of the central ideas of the coming era. “The societies which have achieved the most spectacular, broad-based economic progress … believe in the magic of the marketplace.” I have long thought that this and many other Reagan speeches were extraordinary examples of what Michael Sandel has called public philosophy an attempt “to bring moral and political philosophy to bear on contemporary public discourse.”
Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power From the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
By Liaquat Ahamed
ANTITRUST
By Amy Klobuchar
Over the last decade, the handful of technology companies that have grown to a gargantuan size have fueled concerns among lawmakers on both sides of the aisle over the power wielded by these behemoths. Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, chair of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, has emerged as one of the most vocal critics in Congress of the power of big tech. She has championed the effort to revamp antitrust law, the primary weapon we have for combating excessive concentrations of economic might.
Antitrust is an unusually arcane area of the law, not easily accessible to a wide public. In response to this gap and to provide a narrative backdrop to her current legislative efforts, Klobuchar has written âAntitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power From the Gilded Age to the Digital Age.â A history of antitrust policy may not sound like the most compelling raw material for a page turner. But the book is an impressive work
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Hard on the heels of the muckle of anti-trust filings against the huge U.S. technology companies in the past few months, the United States Senate indicates that clamping down on Big Tech will be a priority for the new majority. A bill submitted last week sketched a new direction in anti-trust law aimed squarely at the Silicon Valley and Seattle corporate giants.
Senator Amy Klobuchar, who is preparing to publish a book this Spring on anti-trust and regulation of the technology industry called “Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power From the Gilded Age to the Digital Age,” has just taken her seat as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Anti-Trust Subcommittee, and prepared to enact her agenda. She plans to introduce a bill directed at limiting corporate monopoly power across the economy, with special inspiration from recent behavior of tech companies. According to the New York Times, the bill includes recommendatio