Gilded Rage

Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley.

From the race to build potentially apocalyptic AI to life-extension startups selling immortality to billionaires—and the quiet courting of far-right politics across the globe—the Silicon Valley techno-utopian dream has curdled. The global innovator class holds the world in its hands, but recoils from its touch.

At the center of this story is Elon Musk, but this book isn’t just about one man and his obsession with the "woke mind virus". As Silverman reveals, it’s about a broader network of tech and finance elites—emboldened by the era of zero-interest rates—now channeling their vast wealth into a radical political agenda.

Moving through San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Austin and Miami, New York, Washington, and other global hubs of power, Silverman speaks with those already living through the fallout of this quiet revolution. It’s a strange, unsettling, and darkly comic world where billionaires preach rebellion while dismantling the last barriers to their own unchecked influence.