The New Robber Barons

A free country will always have its robber barons.  But not all such barons are equal.  Nor are they all equally bad -- or good.

The title was not meant to be a compliment when it was first given to the Rockefellers and Carnegies of the late 19th century.  Curiously, it has not been attached at all to today’s Big Tech barons.  And yet they are worse, maybe even far worse, than their counterparts of long ago.  This is true for many reasons, far from the least of which is that their impact has been to make this country less free.