One of the most read New Yorker stories of 2023 was Ronan Farrow\u2019s investigation into Elon Musk\u2014how the U.S. government came to rely on him, and why it\u2019s now struggling to rein him in. With Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter (now known as X), Musk is deciding the future of the auto industry, the space race, and free speech. The reason for this, Farrow explains, is not Musk\u2019s outrageous personality; it\u2019s the structures of neoliberal capitalism that allowed a person like Musk to ascend. Read more by Ronan Farrow on Harvey Weinstein\u2019s sexual misconduct, Britney Spears\u2019s conservatorship, and the Israeli surveillance agency Black Cube.
This episode was originally published in August, 2023.