Jon Skolnik

2 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Jon Skolnik

Sam Altman really wants to be liked. “That is his superpower,” says Keach Hagey. “He’s very good at doing favors for people—getting people to see his vision. But he’s bad at telling people no.”That’s what the Wall Street Journal reporter has taken away from years of covering the tech innovator’s career and the rise of ChatGPT.

4 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Jon Skolnik

The story everyone’s heard about the Cold War is that capitalism won out. The fall of the Berlin Wall, it goes, extinguished the last embers of communism, while the flames of neoliberalism blazed on. But that’s not the story that all neoliberals actually believed, according to Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, a rousing relitigation of the 1990s’ ideological scorecard.

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Jon Skolnik

When protesters converged this past weekend across America, they seized on two central villains: Donald Trump and Elon Musk. On this episode, host and Vanity Fair editor in chief Radhika Jones, along with executive editor Claire Howorth and Hive editor Michael Calderone, discuss how perceptions of Musk have radically shifted from rocket-building billionaire to government hatchet man and right-wing troll.

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Jon Skolnik

As “masculine energy” pulses through the manosphere, it’s time to take a look at the women of the right, from Fox News–friendly Trump officials to Gen Z YouTube talkers to Nap Dress–clad lifestyle influencers.

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Jon Skolnik

Gavin Newsom is taking time away from running the world’s fifth-largest economy to…talk to Steve Bannon? On this episode, host Radhika Jones, alongside Claire Howorth and Michael Calderone, discusses the California governor’s outreach to right-wingers through his new podcast, This Is Gavin Newsom, and whether he’s effectively countering the MAGA media machine.