FOR DEFECTOR, I REVIEWED Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Elon Musk: a very bad and baffling book, a 600-page blue streak of grovelling and excuse-making:
There is evidence that when Musk wants something badly enough—a new business opportunity, say, or a new wife—he is capable of being sweet, charming, enthusiastic, and smart. “He could flip a switch,”…