Jonathan Taplin

Jonathan Taplin’s extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave in the past half century. The Magic Years is both a rock memoir and a work of cultural criticism from a key player who watched a nation turn from idealism to nihilism....

Move Fast and Break Things tells the story of how a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs began in the 1990s to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet....

Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits....

In this withering takedown of four billionaires who are selling us fantasies while the world burns, Jonathan Taplin shines a light on the enormous cultural power of Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen....

Jonathan Taplin provides a brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first century—the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism—being sold by four billionaires, leading to the degeneration and bankruptcy of our society....