Read Max

What the hell is going on with Elon Musk?


Listen Later

Greetings from Read Max HQ! A bonus newsletter this week containing a podcast with John Ganz of Unpopular Front and Quinn Slobodian, Professor of International History at Boston University and author of the forthcoming Hayek’s B******s: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. Among the topics discussed: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg, cryptocurrency, Las Vegas, and Jensen Huang’s leather jacket.

A reminder: Read Max is funded almost wholly by paying subscribers. I’m able to spend reading, thinking, researching, and yapping with John and Quinn thanks to the generosity of people who find this newsletter and its intermittent podcast component compelling enough to cough up $5/month or $50/year. If you find Read Max at all enlightening or entertaining--if you borrow some of these riffs and opinions to impress potential employers or romantic/sexual partners, say--please consider supporting my work for the price of about one beer a month.

Links

* Quinn’s piece on Musk can be found here.

* His book Hayek’s B******s: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right can be preordered here.

* I also recommend his previous books, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, and Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy.

* John’s newsletter Unpopular Front.

* John’s book When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s, recently nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, can be found here.

* Ryan S. Jeffery’s piece on Jensen Huang and leather, discussed in the podcast, is at Do Not Research.

**Note that if you buy or pre-order any books through the Bookshop links found on this page I will receive a small payment.



Get full access to Read Max at maxread.substack.com/subscribe
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Read MaxBy Max Read

  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5

4.5

15 ratings


More shows like Read Max

View all
Jacobin Radio by Jacobin

Jacobin Radio

1,407 Listeners

Chapo Trap House by Chapo Trap House

Chapo Trap House

8,771 Listeners

Citations Needed by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson

Citations Needed

3,865 Listeners

Posting Through It by Jared Holt & Michael Edison Hayden

Posting Through It

383 Listeners

Know Your Enemy by Matthew Sitman

Know Your Enemy

1,895 Listeners

TrueAnon by TrueAnon

TrueAnon

3,125 Listeners

5-4 by Prologue Projects

5-4

3,323 Listeners

Blowback by Blowback

Blowback

2,916 Listeners

Tech Won't Save Us by Paris Marx

Tech Won't Save Us

476 Listeners

Time To Say Goodbye by Time To Say Goodbye

Time To Say Goodbye

388 Listeners

Joshua Citarella by Joshua Citarella

Joshua Citarella

126 Listeners

Unclear and Present Danger by Jamelle Bouie and John Ganz

Unclear and Present Danger

558 Listeners

Better Offline by Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Better Offline

454 Listeners

Power User with Taylor Lorenz by Taylor Lorenz

Power User with Taylor Lorenz

211 Listeners

System Crash by System Crash

System Crash

33 Listeners