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Does Elon Musk Have Too Much Power?
Does Elon Musk Have Too Much Power?
Elon Musk, with one of his ten children, walks onto the pit lane at the United States Formula One Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, on October 22. (Photo by Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
Biographer Walter Isaacson tells how the tycoon’s painful childhood led him to strive toward becoming ‘the epic superhero of his own comic book.’
By Bari Weiss
11.08.23 — Culture and Ideas
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Does Elon Musk Have Too Much Power?

For the longest time, when you thought about the most powerful person in the world, the person who probably came to mind was the president of the United States, the leader of the free world. But in 2023, the person who comes to mind for most people isn’t an elected official. Instead, many of us picture a 52-year-old civilian who, through his own determi…

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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

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