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Thom Lambert

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Thom Lambert

@profthomlambert

Author of “How to Regulate.” Mizzou Law prof (antitrust, corporations, contracts, regulatory economics). Recipient of much grace.✝️

Columbia, MO / Chicago

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Joined February 2018

Thom Lambert
@profthomlambert
Jan 18, 2025
If my law school posted this, I would hide my head in a bag.
Georgetown Law
@GeorgetownLaw
Jan 17, 2025
Congratulations to #GeorgetownLaw Professor @vicnourse on her decades of hard work advocating on behalf of women's rights and the Equal Rights Amendment #ERA, which Pres. Biden this morning said should be considered the law of the land. Read more: cnn.it/3CdaV5A
Readers added context
The National Archivist has stated the amendment cannot be certified without action from Congress or the courts: abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden… Biden's January 17, 2025 statement is purely symbolic and lacks legal authority: npr.org/2025/01/17/nx-… The original ratification deadline of 1979 (extended to 1982) was missed: apnews.com/article/joe-bi…
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Thom Lambert
@profthomlambert
May 28, 2020
I do wish my friend would stop embarrassing himself. As he knows, S230 doesn’t insulate platforms from liability based on their own speech. When twitter fact-checked POTUS, it spoke. S230 protects it from liability for HIS speech. Without 230, it could hardly let him post.
Josh Hawley
@HawleyMO
May 28, 2020
Replying to @HawleyMO
As currently interpreted by courts, Section 230 treats #BigTech companies as passive distributors even when they substantially transform third-party content, like @Twitter did to @realDonaldTrump. They get to act like publishers, but without the accountability. That’s a problem!
Thom Lambert
@profthomlambert
Feb 4, 2021
My former colleague @HawleyMO, whom I recruited to Mizzou Law and consider a friend, penned this @firstthingsmag piece. He argues that Robinhood’s restriction on GameStop trading was a Big Tech conspiracy to hold down the little guy. A few thoughts. 1/x
firstthings.com
Calling Wall Street’s Bluff - First Things
There’s a popular theory about how our financial markets work that goes like this: The markets are efficient mechanisms for “price discovery”—as in, the ideal price. The true price,...
Thom Lambert
@profthomlambert
Feb 4, 2021
Replying to @profthomlambert
The problem is that the end doesn’t justify the means, at least not for Christians. Jesus clearly taught that his followers are to *be* certain sorts of people, not to achieve certain ends. And a smart person who misleads others to gain power isn’t who we’re to be. 7/x
Thom Lambert
@profthomlambert
Feb 4, 2021
Replying to @profthomlambert
@HawleyMO is lying. I hate to say that of a friend, but it’s true. He’s saying things he knows are false. As many have explained, Robinhood halted certain trading to deal with a liquidity crisis. He knows there was no conspiracy to protect hedge funds. 2/x
Opinion | Why Brokers Had to Restrain Trading in GameStop Shares
From wsj.com
Thom Lambert
@profthomlambert
Feb 4, 2021
Replying to @profthomlambert
This new breed of Christian nationalist may retort, “Yeah, that’s a recipe for continued electoral defeat and ultimately anti-Christian policies.” To which Jesus responds, “What doth it profit a man to gain the whole world and yet lose his soul?”12/x
Thom Lambert
@profthomlambert
Feb 4, 2021
Replying to @profthomlambert
But that fact doesn’t support @HawleyMO’s campaign to rail against the sort of coastal elites that, like him, went to schools such as Stanford and Yale and now, like him, have amassed power. This campaign, he hopes, will endear him to regular folks. 3/x
Thom Lambert
@profthomlambert
Feb 4, 2021
Replying to @profthomlambert
So he’s said stuff he knows isn’t true. Just like he’s done when discussing Section 230. And the First Amendment. And the antitrust laws. And the validity of election challenges. 4/x
Thom Lambert
@profthomlambert
Feb 4, 2021
Replying to @profthomlambert
Come home @HawleyMO. I personally miss the old you, and we Missourians want you to lead us with integrity. My hunch is that if you do so, you’ll advance politically. But even if you don’t, you will have put first things first. END
Thom Lambert
@profthomlambert
Feb 4, 2021
Replying to @profthomlambert
For the Christian politician, electoral success and advancement is a second thing. Christian virtue—truthfulness, kindness, humility, peacemaking—must come first. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” 11/x
Thom Lambert
@profthomlambert
Feb 4, 2021
Replying to @profthomlambert
The sort of “muscular” Christian who views political success as paramount for protecting religion, and thus as an objective to be achieved however necessary, puts second things first. As Lewis warned, we’re likely to lose both first things (virtue) & second (elections). 14/x
Thom Lambert
@profthomlambert
Feb 4, 2021
Replying to @profthomlambert
I believe he does so because he thinks it will help him win elections, which will empower him to make constructive changes that he thinks (and I often agree) would make our society more just. It’s an “end justifies the means” thing. 6/x
Thom Lambert
@profthomlambert
Feb 4, 2021
Replying to @profthomlambert
As Lewis elsewhere put it, “Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first and we lose *both* first and second things.” 10/x
Thom Lambert
@profthomlambert
Jun 24, 2025
A “modern-day” monopoly is apparently when four highly efficient firms, none of which holds a majority market share nor has the ability to control market prices on its own, collectively possess a high market share.
Josh Hawley
@HawleyMO
Jun 24, 2025
A total of 4 companies control a whopping 80% of the entire beef-processing industry. That's a modern-day monopoly. The winners here? The monopolists - like Tyson Foods. The losers? Farmers & grocery shoppers. We need more industry competition in America
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