Barry Lynn’s New Book, Liberty from All Masters, Is the Guide We Need Today to Solve America’s Monopoly Crisis and to Build a Better Democracy

As the House prepares for another hearing on Big Tech’s antitrust abuses, Lynn details how to protect our liberty and control Big Tech’s power with the laws we already have.

WASHINGTON – Today, Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn released Liberty from All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People.

The new book shines a bright light on how monopolies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook are fast transforming their power into autocratic systems of control, just as the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee prepares for the latest chapter in its antitrust investigation of Big Tech.

Lynn, widely known for his vanguard warnings on the dangers of concentrated economic power in his books Cornered and End of the Line, now provides a much-needed blueprint about how to utilize the “American System of Liberty” to create a better democracy.

“The threat we face is extreme. But this is also a moment of real hope,” Lynn says. “The American people already have the power to rebuild our democracy and economy from the ground up. Better yet, there’s real momentum right now, as this Thursday’s hearings will show. As I make clear in Liberty From All Masters, we can use these same tools to fight climate change, fix health care, radically reduce inequality, and build a more peaceful and prosperous world.”

Liberty from All Masters, published by St. Martin’s Press, has already made waves for its empowering call to restore democracy by resurrecting forgotten tools and institutions.

“Very few thinkers in recent years have done more to shift debate in Washington than Barry Lynn. In Liberty From All Masters, he proves himself as a lyrical theorist and a bold interpreter of history. This book is an elegant summoning of a forgotten tradition that can help the nation usher in a new freedom,” says Franklin Foer, author of World Without Mind and national correspondent for The Atlantic.

Even before publication, Liberty from All Masters was featured in a cover article in Harper’s Magazine, was reviewed in the Washington Monthly and was cited in two articles in the Financial Times as helping to show how to build a more democratic and ethical future.

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