But apart from that early crusade against civil rights, as a scholar Bork mainly stuck to his actual specialty, antitrust. For almost a century, antitrust laws had been passed and more and more strongly enforced because Americans agreed that when companies became very large, they tended to get too much power, to crush smaller businesses, to scare off entrepreneurial competitors, to charge too much for products, to pay workers too little, to corrupt government. Even regulation-hating right-wingers like Friedman originally made an exception for antitrust laws.
