Lina Khan Isn’t Wrong About Amazon

Finally, it’s showtime. Ever since Joe Biden made the bold decision in 2021 to bring in Lina Khan, a 32-year-old law scholar at the time, to lead the Federal Trade Commission, it was known that Amazon.com Inc. would be in her sights. The antitrust case her agency filed on Tuesday, which targets the company’s top-to-bottom control of e-commerce, is the culmination of a yearslong investigation. Or, as Khan’s many critics would have it: a yearslong vendetta.

The case is the fourth brought by the FTC against Amazon this year and is...