My new guide, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, has been on retailer cabinets for a month now, together with a CBC restricted podcast sequence referred to as “The Making of Musk.” I’m actually glad to have each of these works out on the planet, and I hope you purchase many copies, although libraries are nice sources, too.
There have been sturdy opinions in Kirkus, Bloomberg, the Bulwark, and Publishers Weekly, which named Gilded Rage one of the best nonfiction books of 2025. A pair members of the monetary press appeared to hate it, which I welcome. The Monetary Occasions referred to as the guide “full of life and provocative.” (No have to relate what else they stated.)
You possibly can learn excerpts of Gilded Rage in Newsweek, Lithub, and The Guardian. The guide additionally incorporates some reporting that I’ve finished on this Substack and for different retailers. I narrated the audiobook.
I’ve been doing many interviews in each media format obtainable. (Quickly: Laserdisc.) I had an exquisite dialog with famous cat proprietor and “Get Him to the Greek” star Paul Krugman:
I’ve talked with the good Paris Marx, Brian Merchant, TrueAnon, KFPA, Politico, The Majority Report, WhoWhatWhy, and plenty of different retailers. My voice has been heard on tv and radio each terrestrial and satellite tv for pc. I’ve been pleased to speak with colleagues and readers in Wyoming, DC, San Francisco, and Boston.
I’ve talked rather a lot about tech fascism, billionaires’ affinity for the Saudi royal authorities, the whiplash of the final 20 years of tech politics, Republican complicity in Trump’s corruption, what the Covid years wrought, the paranoid billionaire thoughts, and the way a bunch of centrist liberals and would-be libertarians developed a reactionary hatred of the Democratic Get together and the left.
I not too long ago printed an op-ed in the New York Times concerning the unprecedented corruption made doable by World Liberty Monetary and Trump’s crypto pursuits. It’s a difficulty I talk about within the guide that has assumed large significance in Trump’s second administration, through which white collar crime is authorized, as lengthy it someway advantages the president and his household.
You possibly can nonetheless comply with me on X, Bluesky, and guide websites like Amazon and Goodreads. As all the time, I’m vowing to begin writing usually once more on this Substack, the place the whole lot will proceed to be unpaywalled and donations are welcome however not anticipated. I don’t like to jot down rather a lot of takes — I’ve finished it an excessive amount of — so I attempt to convey extra reporting right here, which takes time. I do have a couple of function concepts and results in comply with. First, I’ve to clear away some work and promotional duties, however this can be my dwelling base going into 2026.
Thanks for tuning in.
