Stephen Dubner

If someone comes up with a clever idea like buying up ugly produce and building a market around it, and they come to dominate that market, is that reason alone to break them up? That is essentially the same question Google is facing in court right now. So where is the appropriate middle ground? After the break, we will try to find it.

If someone comes up with a clever idea like buying up ugly produce and building a market around it, and they come to dominate that market, is that reason alone to break them up? That is essentially the same question Google is facing in court right now. So where is the appropriate middle ground? After the break, we will try to find it.

I'm Stephen Dubner. This is Freakonomics Radio. We'll be right back. Lena Kahn had plenty of critics during her tenure as FTC chair from a variety of ideological camps. Some conservatives accused her of overreach. Some liberals said she was more bark than bite. But there is one thing about her that just about everyone agrees on.

I'm Stephen Dubner. This is Freakonomics Radio. We'll be right back. Lena Kahn had plenty of critics during her tenure as FTC chair from a variety of ideological camps. Some conservatives accused her of overreach. Some liberals said she was more bark than bite. But there is one thing about her that just about everyone agrees on.

I'm Stephen Dubner. This is Freakonomics Radio. We'll be right back. Lena Kahn had plenty of critics during her tenure as FTC chair from a variety of ideological camps. Some conservatives accused her of overreach. Some liberals said she was more bark than bite. But there is one thing about her that just about everyone agrees on.

She is a serious person who eats, sleeps, and breathes antitrust reform. She has been fixated on corporate power since she was at least a high school sophomore. In 2004, she wrote an article for her school newspaper about a nearby Starbucks that wouldn't allow students to congregate. The New York Times followed up her article with one of their own called A Tempest in a Coffee Shop.

She is a serious person who eats, sleeps, and breathes antitrust reform. She has been fixated on corporate power since she was at least a high school sophomore. In 2004, she wrote an article for her school newspaper about a nearby Starbucks that wouldn't allow students to congregate. The New York Times followed up her article with one of their own called A Tempest in a Coffee Shop.

She is a serious person who eats, sleeps, and breathes antitrust reform. She has been fixated on corporate power since she was at least a high school sophomore. In 2004, she wrote an article for her school newspaper about a nearby Starbucks that wouldn't allow students to congregate. The New York Times followed up her article with one of their own called A Tempest in a Coffee Shop.

I asked Khan if she could identify where this crusading spirit of hers comes from.

I asked Khan if she could identify where this crusading spirit of hers comes from.

I asked Khan if she could identify where this crusading spirit of hers comes from.

You have been praised in some quarters for your work at the FTC, but also attacked. And I would argue the attacks were much more intense than is typical for the FTC chair. How do you manage the criticism? Do you try to seek out criticism that has value and try to learn from it and sort that out from the rest that's just noise? Do you not pay attention to any of it?

You have been praised in some quarters for your work at the FTC, but also attacked. And I would argue the attacks were much more intense than is typical for the FTC chair. How do you manage the criticism? Do you try to seek out criticism that has value and try to learn from it and sort that out from the rest that's just noise? Do you not pay attention to any of it?

You have been praised in some quarters for your work at the FTC, but also attacked. And I would argue the attacks were much more intense than is typical for the FTC chair. How do you manage the criticism? Do you try to seek out criticism that has value and try to learn from it and sort that out from the rest that's just noise? Do you not pay attention to any of it?

Where does the Wall Street Journal editorial page sit on the tethered to fact spectrum?

Where does the Wall Street Journal editorial page sit on the tethered to fact spectrum?

Where does the Wall Street Journal editorial page sit on the tethered to fact spectrum?

Although I will say this, one critic of yours, this is an academic who doesn't like your work very much. He works in the antitrust space. He made the argument that your work is almost universally, in his view, ideological and not empirical. How would you respond to that?

Although I will say this, one critic of yours, this is an academic who doesn't like your work very much. He works in the antitrust space. He made the argument that your work is almost universally, in his view, ideological and not empirical. How would you respond to that?

Although I will say this, one critic of yours, this is an academic who doesn't like your work very much. He works in the antitrust space. He made the argument that your work is almost universally, in his view, ideological and not empirical. How would you respond to that?