Recent discussions of tech antitrust such as those in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times often refer to the breakup of the Bell System in the 1980s as an attractive example of successful ...

Before AT&T was broken up in 1984 by court order, the Bell System referred to AT&T and all the Bell Telephone companies that were part of it, but had separate names to provide a regional flavor. The ...

We’ve often thought that while going to the moon in the 1960s was audacious, it was just the flashiest of many audacious feats attempted and accomplished in the 20th century. Imagine, for a minute, ...