Jill Lapor is the author of 14 books and a professor of American history at Harvard. Her new podcast, "The evening cket," explores what she calls 'extravagant extreme capitalism' She talks about elon musk's vision for an electric car-driven future where stock prices are driven by earnings but also by fantasies.
When it comes to Elon Musk, it can be hard to separate the man from the myth. But in her new podcast, “The Evening Rocket,” Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore manages to see through Musk’s mystique, explain his worldview, and decipher his visions of the future by going back to the sci-fi stories he grew up on — stories, Lepore says, that Musk sometimes misread.