Big Tech's new threat is the wrath of Khan

Politicians are old and out of touch. Biden is 82. Trump 78. Step up Lina Khan, half their age, digital native, and the new chair of the Federal Trade Commission...

Politicians are old and out of touch. Biden is 82. Trump is 78. Are these coffin dodgers really the leaders the world needs as AI promises to upend our digital future?

Step up to the plate 34-year-old Lina Khan, half their age, a digital native, and the new(ish) chair of America’s powerful Federal Trade Commission.

Biden gave her the job after she wrote a paper while a law student at Yale arguing antitrust laws were ill-equipped to cope with Amazon's market power.

Now, she’s America’s frontline enforcer of antitrust and competition. Two years after taking it on, she has Tech’s Trillionaire Four of Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta in court.

Khan is famous for her big swings. Words like illegal, monopoly, harmful, coercive, exploitative, exclusionary, inflationary, hurtful, and degrading trip off her tongue.

She’s quite exhilarating to watch after decades of diminishing controls on business that have led to the greatest disparity in wealth and opportunity in living memory.

This week, Khan …