Zephyr Teachout
Anti-monopoly and anti-corruption law (Fordham).
Zephyr Teachout is a law professor at Fordham University who teaches antitrust, election law, and corporations, and a prominent anti-monopoly and anti-corruption scholar. She is the author of Corruption in America (2014) and Break 'Em Up (2020). She has run for public office in New York (governor, Congress, and attorney general) and as of 2026 writes on antitrust and democracy via her Substack and the American Economic Liberties Project.
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Feeling jealous of NYC and Seattle having exciting new mayors that aren't beholden to financial elites and insiders? -- Seattle has a democracy vouchers program which hands residents $100 to donate to local candidates -- New York City gives candidates an 8 to 1 match for small
11mo ago · 2,625 likes
incredible to see a Mayor whose campaign spoke directly and deeply to small businesses “The owner of my local bodega, an immigrant from Yemen, told me recently that he “didn’t do politics.” When I stopped into the store on Tuesday, he was wearing an “I voted” sticker and a grin.
11mo ago · 5,523 likes
I’m glad to see Delgado being very clear that Hochul’s actions on bitcoin and fracked gas pipelines are poisoning New York air and water and health. She’s acting like NY climate law is a recommendation not a law.
11mo ago · 1,008 likes
Democratic Senators should replace their failed leadership. If Schumer will not resign as leader he should be forced out.
11mo ago · 1,344 likes
The strongest case
Concentrated economic power is a threat to democracy itself; reviving antimonopoly and anti-corruption law—treating monopoly and money-in-politics as constitutional-order problems rather than mere consumer-price questions—is necessary to protect self-government.
And against
Critics from the consumer-welfare antitrust mainstream argue her 'big is bad' structuralism risks penalizing efficiency and scale without clear consumer harm, and that her expansive readings of 'corruption' and 'monopoly' are more political philosophy than administrable legal standards.
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