Will Anyone Ever Make Sense of Elon Musk?

Elon Musk is "wired for war." At least, that's what Musk has told Walter Isaacson, whose thick biography of the mercurial mega-billionaire, Elon Musk, is out this week. When Musk says this, he's not talking about Ukraine, where his Starlink internet service has played a central role. Civilization, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, The Battle of Polytopia, Elden Ring--Musk has spent much of his life in fantasy worlds. Isaacson's biography includes many astonishing details and relatively few pages focused on Musk's gaming obsession. But the video-game detail is telling. Musk doesn't seem to inhabit our reality, exactly, even as he profoundly shapes it.