I find most conservative thought today to be either mired in or awkwardly defending a half baked conspiracy theory and post Trump to be either pretending his influence is non-existent or also awkwardly defending his specific conspiracies. I try to go to the American Conservative or the National Review for modern conservative writing although these two outlets can also be hit or miss. In the case of monopolies I was not disgusted by two articles that called for conservatives to take a different approach to antitrust philosophy. The first came from Rachel Bovard, her piece in the American Conservative echoed the ideas she's put forth in other places. It is aligns with Lina Khan's in a way that never mentions her name but agrees on the the highest level: monopoly is more than just prices increasing. There was a lot of references to free speech and how platforms like Twitter and Facebook have muted conservative voices. And "Lina Khan lite" calls for reimagining antitrus...
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