Publications

Joseph V. Coniglio hosts Robert H. Bork Jr., president of the Antitrust Education Project, to discuss his book The New Paradox: Antitrust and the Threat of Conservative Socialism. They cover what’s happening now in antitrust policy, Trump-era antitrust continuity, and why antitrust is the wrong tool for speech issues.

Canada says it wants to be a technology and innovation economy, but its research budget still treats balance across disciplines as the priority. If innovation is the actual goal, the Carney government should shift funding from social sciences and humanities toward NSERC and CIHR.

At a time of unprecedented growth in the broadband market, California’s broadband laws remain unchanged, and it is costing consumers faster, more reliable Internet.

Boeing and Airbus have long dominated the global commercial aircraft industry in production and innovation. But the rise of COMAC—China’s government-created, mercantilist-fueled national champion—threatens the foundations of market-based commercial aviation.

Between 2005 and 2024, Chinese firms received approximately 3 to 8 times more subsidies as competitor firms in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Decades of experience without a single negative consequence attributable to an unexpected attribute of biotech-improved crops provides a robust falsification of the hazard hypothesis on which the 1986 Coordinated Framework was predicated.

The National Vulnerability Database is struggling with growing backlogs, outdated processes, and overlapping responsibilities that threaten its effectiveness. NIST should improve coordination with CISA, modernize vulnerability management systems, and strengthen stakeholder engagement to restore trust and efficiency.

The Pope’s AI encyclical reflects social capitalism’s animus toward growth, technology-driven creative destruction, international economic competition, and large business.

The NO FAKES Act would create a much-needed federal right of publicity to protect individuals from unauthorized digital replicas, but Congress should narrow the bill’s definition of “digital replica” to avoid unintentionally restricting legitimate uses and innovation, particularly in the video game industry.

The EU’s Tech Sovereignty Package seeks to reduce reliance on American technology, but by restricting access to the firms driving innovation in cloud computing, semiconductors, and AI infrastructure, it risks weakening Europe’s competitiveness and strengthening China’s position in the global tech race.