{"id":1859,"date":"2023-10-04T15:19:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2024-03-14T12:09:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T16:09:36","slug":"isaacson-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/isaacson-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaacson and Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amusing to me that Walter Isaacson and Michael Lewis\u2014who happened to go to the same elite private high school in New Orleans, just a few years apart\u2014are finally having their oeuvres as favorable stenographers for the rich and powerful reassessed more or less simultaneously. Isaacson clearly met his match with Elon Musk, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/new-jack-elon-haters\/\">deeply incurious abuser<\/a> who gave Isaacson quite minimal access; Lewis does seem to be one of a handful of people who actually believed in that ethical altruism nonsense Sam Bankman-Fried was\u00a0 cooking up. Good riddance, I say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amusing to me that Walter Isaacson and Michael Lewis\u2014who happened to go to the same elite private high school in New Orleans, just a few years apart\u2014are finally having their oeuvres as favorable stenographers for the rich and powerful reassessed more or less simultaneously. Isaacson clearly met his match with Elon Musk, a deeply &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/isaacson-lewis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Isaacson and Lewis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-presentation-of-self","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}