Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen 华盛顿圆桌会议邀请了奥斯卡获奖导演亚历克斯·吉布尼，讨论他的新纪录片《马斯克》。
Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen The Washington Roundtable is joined by Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning filmmaker, to discuss his new documentary, “Musk.”
自7月以来，埃隆·马斯克已向共和党竞选活动投入超过2.5亿美元，远超其他任何捐助者，且全部公开进行。
Since July, Elon Musk has poured more than a quarter of a billion dollars into Republican campaigns, more than any other donor in the midterms by a wide margin, and all in plain view.
资深撰稿人、《暗金钱：亿万富翁背后的激进右翼崛起隐秘历史》作者简·梅耶尔解释了马斯克如何将超级富豪的政治资金从阴影中带出：“他是亿万富翁的出柜派对。”
吉布尼认为，马斯克的肆意花费更多是出于自保而非意识形态——一种阻止调查、保护其公司并确保联邦合同继续的方式。
Jane Mayer, the staff writer and the author of “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,” explains how Musk is bringing political financing by the ultra-wealthy out of the shadows: “He’s the coming-out party for the billionaires.”
一个人如何能够对我们的选举、技术乃至世界另一端的战争施加如此巨大的影响？
“他向我们所有人兜售了一个梦想，”吉布尼说，“而我们上当了。”
Gibney argues that Musk’s flagrant spending is less a matter of ideology than one of self-preservation—a way to forestall investigations, protect his companies, and keep the federal contracts coming.
本周阅读清单：“特朗普的十月惊喜是转向普京”，作者苏珊·B·格拉瑟“谁赢得了重新划区战争？”
How did a single person come to wield this kind of power over our elections, our technology, and even a war on the other side of the world?
，作者乔恩·阿尔索普“金伯利是谁？”
“He sold us all a dream,” Gibney says, “and we fell for it.”
，作者鲁思·马库斯“中期选举后的特朗普”，作者大卫·雷姆尼克“可怜的护照持有者”，作者亚当·戈普尼克
This week’s reading: “Trump’s October Surprise Is a Pivot to Putin,” by Susan B. Glasser“Who Won the Redistricting War?,” by Jon Allsop“Kimberly Who?,” by Ruth Marcus“Donald Trump After the Midterms,” by David Remnick“Pity the Poor Passport,” by Adam Gopnik