My latest at the Belmont Club. Elon is simultaneously a principal source of the U.S. bureaucracy’s greatness and locus of rebellion against the venality, dysfunction and stupidity of the status quo. How does the establishment contain yet exploit him?
Belmont Club: Excellence in the Service of Mediocrity
The New York Times describes the federal government’s efforts to both exploit and control Elon Musk. His genius is simultaneously a principal source of America’s greatness — and by extension the U.S. bureaucracy’s — and locus of rebellion against the venality, dysfunction and stupidity of the status quo.