Gilded Rage

Jacob Silverman is one of the sharpest and most plugged-in tech commentators working today. He understands subcultures, politics and the internet. He can tell you what’s in the black box, and what it’s doing to our society. Gilded Rage is unmissable. – Hari Kunzru, Writer and Journalist, author of ‘Gods without Men’, ‘White Tears’ and ‘Red Pill’In Gilded Rage, Jacob Silverman delivers a clear-eyed anatomy of tech-addled delusion that has stubbornly eluded our media and political establishment for more than thirty years. Along the way, he recounts how the libertarian ethos of Silicon Valley has curdled into a frontal assault on our democracy. – Chris Lehmann, DC Bureau Chief of The Nation and the author of ‘The Money Cult’A book that should trouble your dreams. – Kirkus ReviewsSilverman makes a convincing case for how tech became radicalized. By grounding his argument in money rather than red-pilling, he avoids fixating on the many outrageous social media posts of Musk and others, and instead offers a plausible explanation for why so many of Trump’s most powerful allies in tech (including Musk and Andreessen) once presented themselves as moderate Democrats. – BloombergTech reporter Silverman’s sharp and ominous account delves into the radicalizing worldviews of Silicon Valley billionaires in the lead-up to Donald Trump’s reelection, and warns of a fusion of corporate and state power through which tech titans seek to enact undemocratic agendas. It’s an essential unmasking of the growing extremism among America’s wealthy. – Publishers Weekly

JACOB SILVERMAN is the author of Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection and co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud, which was a New York Times Bestseller. He’s a contributing editor at The New Republic and The Baffler, and his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and many other publications. He lives in New York.