The Rise and Fall of Lena Kahn

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Lena Kahn rose to prominence while she was a student at Yale Law School. She wrote an article called Amazon's Antitrust Paradox that got a lot of attention in the field of antitrust. Her counterpart at the Department of Justice is Jonathan Cantor, who previously worked for Google and became a vocal critic of big tech.

This week’s court battle involving Microsoft and Activision, giants of tech and gaming, reflects a sea change under way in America’s trustbusting machinery; it may not go as far as the top competition cop might like. A boom in China’s post-pandemic economy now seems to be sputtering (11:29). And a paean to the Tayto crisp—cheese-and-onion flavour, naturally (18:29).

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