Virginia Heffernan

He has basically this vision of the world in which if we don't procreate more, the world ends, which is funny 'cause he's at the forefront of making all of this artificial intelligence [laughs] which is displacing humans.

So in this episode, we are going to get into what you could call Elon Musk's fertility cult, and we are gonna be talking to Virginia Heffernan, who is one of my absolute favorite writers and podcasters.

She makes a podcast called What Rough Beast, which she has dubbed politics for English majors, and she also writes a Substack, Magic and Loss, Virginia Heffernan's Substack.

It is a home for all of her exquisite essays.

So here's our conversation with Virginia.

You know, he is the Wizard of Oz, and we can never let him tell us that he's the king of the known universe.

He's just simply not.

Thank you so much, Virginia Heffernan, for coming on to Infamous.

... or this year.

Um, it's an amazing book, and it's by a woman called Virginia Heffernan, and she has written seven failed novels.

Mm.

So this is her eighth novel, and it's the first one that has-

And I made it clear when you moved continents, I wouldn't be coming.

The Correspondent by Virginia Heffernan is in the RNIB Talking Books Library, as read by a full cast of multiple narrators.

And once again, Lynn, thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.

Yes, Tony, uh, great article about Steve Pinker by Virginia Heffernan, "The Nerve." Virginia came on this show and talked about The Nerve, which is the intellectual-

Right

... hub, uh, that Epstein funded and created.