“I claim the Red Planet for Red!” Those were Elon Musk’s ringing words when he set foot on Mars in 2047. Having gotten there first, Musk claimed the entire fourth planet for the Red Bloc, the conservative subdivision of the…
Elon Musk By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 688 pages, $35) To give credit where due, I cannot imagine another journalist writing a biography of Elon Musk as smart, thorough, and forthright as Walter Isaacson’s recently released Elon Musk. To…
“The issue I think with the ADL is not a question of hate speech,” Elon Musk said told the All-In conference this week. “It’s not a question of antisemitism, obviously. It’s that the ADL and a lot of other organizations…
I couldn’t be more concerned about the Biden Federal Trade Commission’s insistence on regulating, using, and abusing honest individuals and businesses that it deems harmful to its political interests. In 2021, the agency rescinded the consumer welfare standard, the governing philosophy, which stated…
When Ukraine sent submarine drones to conduct a sneak attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in 2022, its Starlink satellite connection suddenly went dark. Without that connection, the drones went offline, and the Russian ships remained unharmed. Elon Musk, who…
Before the internet, artificial intelligence, the International Space Station, and the mapping of the human genome, there was science fiction, which predicted it all. Where and when the genre began is debatable: among the ancestors of today’s science fiction are…
Musk will continue to headquarter his social media company X, the rebranded version of Twitter, in San Francisco, according to a recent tweet. Since he bought the company in 2022, Musk says he has received multiple offers to move the…
Elon Musk’s announcement that he would be rebranding Twitter came as a surprise to pundits, who hastened to denounce the change. BBC reported that users felt “shock[ed]” at the shift, and tech reporter Casey Newton called the move an “extended…
Elon Musk let me down. I doubt this would much bother him while running the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles, building rockets to Mars, maintaining a $300 billion fortune, and saving freedom of speech, for which I named him…
