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Ben Tarnoff Jan 2, 2024

I reviewed Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk for the latest issue of the New York Review of Books. Themes include masculinity, sadness, Fordism, and poop https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/01/18/ultra-hardcore-elon-musk-walter-isaacson/

Ultra Hardcore | Ben Tarnoff

To be a man is to dominate others. This is what I absorbed as a boy: masculinity means mastery, power, control. To be socialized into manhood is to gain a

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