A New Book Trashing Elon Musk Is Already Out of Date

Talk about bad timing.

A new book called Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed has just been announced. It will be published in April, but I’ve obtained an early copy. Muskism, allegedly, is about Elon Musk and his supposed “dark prophesies” for America. But the timing of this book’s launch could hardly be worse for its authors.

Those authors, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, describe Musk as a racist techno-Nazi who lacks empathy and has dreams of an all-white future where he controls what everyone says and thinks, how many kids they have, and what history teaches. “Dystopian isn’t a strong enough word for the technocratic future the authors prophesy in this bleak but urgent book,” hailed Kirkus Reviews. 

Slobodian and Tarnoff acknowledge that some people think of Musk as “a genius entrepreneur, launching humanity toward a science-fiction future,” but in reality, they say, he is “a ketamine-addled meme-lord, inflating bubbles and babbling about birth rates,” or worse, “a cat’s paw of the far right, his brain rotted by Twitter and dark prophecies of migrant invasion.” Muskism, they insist, won’t end well:

The end goal is a purified community defined by cultural and genetic membership in a white, European West garrisoned by superior technology—a fortress to protect the best of humanity from the worst. The technologies of Muskism’s walled garden will fortify the walls of the nation and the home. Harden your heart, harden your borders and debug the codebase. “If tolerance means the end of Western Civilization,” he posted to his 225 million followers in 2025, “then we cannot be tolerant.”