Thomas Winslow Hazlett is Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics at Clemson University. His most recent book is The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smart Phone (Yale University Press).
Thomas W. Hazlett
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A Government Veto on Speech at the Supreme Court
Murthy v. Missouri challenges government efforts to suppress dissenting viewpoints on social media.
Maybe Google Is Popular Because It's Good?
The Department of Justice undervalues consumer preference in its latest antitrust efforts.
Martin Morse Wooster's Front Row Seat
RIP to a prolific and colorful Reason contributor and author.
Net Neutrality Is Far From Necessary
Remember, the "open internet" that regulatory rules purportedly preserve emerged from a world without net neutrality rules.
The New Trustbusters Are Coming for Big Tech
Left and right are joining forces under the banner of “hipster antitrust.”
Zuckerberg's Plea: Regulate Me Before I Violate People's Privacy Again!
Facebook would prosper in a less robust market.
Thomas Sowell Returns
One of America's top social scientists on what has changed since he sat down with Reason 38 years ago.
Making the Fairness Doctrine Great Again
Media bias has been far less harmful than media regulation bias. That can seal off whole markets and make everyone who's left too nervous to speak freely.
We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier
Thanks for nothing, Federal Communications Commission.
Herbert Hoover's Radio Malware Turns 90
The Radio Act of 1927 has enjoyed a nice, long life. It's past time for a retirement party.
Selected Skirmishes: Homelessness
The movie
Selected Skirmishes: Hayek's Heroes
The greatest idea of the 20th century paid off on its biggest day
Selected Skirmishes: Prosecutorial Abuse
Reinventing the Independent Counsel Act for fun and profit.
Selected Skirmishes: Back in the USSR
Post-communist society's top economic output: capitalist straw men
Selected Skirmishes: HMO Phobia
Quack remedies for the health care "crisis"
Selected Skirmishes: Sluggers Row
How to turn cultural progress--and good, clean fun--into racist calamity
Selected Skirmishes: Hope Springs Paternal
What medical reporters think inquiring minds don't need to know
Selected Skirmishes: Texas Swing
The not-so-shocking reason the Lone Star state chose not to sue Microsoft