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In a short, sharp political book, The Nation magazine’s “Anti-Monopolist” columnist and “a prophet of the resurgent left” (Franklin Foer) explains the battle between the forces of oligarchy and the rise of the new anti-monopoly movement. Using the stories of modern anti-monopoly heroes including Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan; blueberry farmer Hugh Kent, who turned his battle with Driscoll’s into a farmers’ movement; and Doha Mekki, the daughter of a Sudanese asylum seeker who took on Google and won; Teachout explains how anti-monopoly cuts across traditional political lines and gives real teeth to economic populism.
Teachout, a scholar of the law of democracy and a politician whose run for governor of New York State shocked the political establishment, argues that monopoly is the architecture of private tyranny, and that breaking corporate power is essential to building a new democracy. From AI to agriculture, healthcare to energy, Americans understand that corporate concentration doesn’t just cause inequality; it organizes power. Anti-Monopoly gives that feeling a name, a history, and a way forward.
After a spate of books out of the Abundance movement arguing that we need to remove local democracy and focus on efficiency at scale, this book provides a sharp counterpoint.
Zephyr Teachout is a professor at Fordham Law School, a former candidate for public office, and a columnist for The Nation. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, and elsewhere, and she is a frequent commentator on MSNBC, The Ezra Klein Show, and dozens of podcasts. She is the author of Mousepads, Shoe Leather, and Hope, Corruption in America, and Break ’Em Up and lives in East Harlem, New York.