Counterpoint' episode of Star Trek: Voyager is still celebrated by fans and Kate Mulgrew as one of the series' best.

Netflix's attempt to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery has set off alarms about market power and cultural reach. However, the real issue isn't this single merger; it's the extent to which American media has consolidated so dramatically that a small circle of companies now exercises unprecedented control over cultural production and distribution.

One of the largest literary publishers of the West — west of the Hudson River, Counterpoint’s Charlie Winton points out, that doesn’t operate as a nonprofit — has merged with fledgling New York publisher Catapult. When the companies announced the ...