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Goliath by Matt Stoller is a detailed historical account that re-tells U.S. history as a fight between monopolists and anti-monopolists. The book begins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on figures like J.P. Morgan and Andrew Mellon, and traces the struggle through the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, and the post-war period up to the present. Stoller highlights key personalities such as Wright Patman, Ralph Nader, and Michael Milken, and discusses the impact of anti-monopoly policies on American democracy. The book also explores the resurgence of authoritarianism and populism in modern American politics and the historical context that led to the current political landscape[2][3][4].

This book argues that right-wing ideology was built into both the technical and social construction of the digital world from the start. Leveraging more than a decade of research, David Golumbia traces how digital evangelism has driven the worldwide shift toward the political right, concealing inequality, xenophobia, dishonesty, and massive corporate concentrations of wealth and power beneath the utopian presumption of digital technology as an inherent social good. The book provides an incisive critique of the push for open access and open-source software, the legal battles over online censorship and net neutrality, and how the internet has been used by terror and hate groups and political disinformation campaigns. It highlights technology’s role in advancing hyperindividualist and antigovernment agendas and demonstrates how various figures and organizations have worked to hamper regulation and weaken legal safeguards against exploitation.