The Emerging Delrahim Doctrine

Washington and Silicon Valley are united at the moment in trying to get a better handle on how, exactly, Justice Department antitrust chief Makan Delrahim will handle the American tech industry and its iconic companies, from Amazon to Google. May 31 they'll have another chance, with a DOJ roundtable meant to shed light on the relationship between regulation and competition.

Whether regulation meant to foster competition might have the opposite effect, and if so, how to avoid that if government decides to regulate anyway. It’s a topic of particular interest as politicians on both the right and left float — let’s admit it — vague notions of somehow checking the power of Silicon Valley. Chief Delrahim is scheduled to give opening remarks.