On Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the problem of ketamine

The world's richest man has picked a fight with the President of the United States for reasons that only he understands (if he does). I LIKE Elon; I want better for him than this.

The partnership of Elon Musk and Donald Trump was always going to be fraught.

Both are alphas, almost comically so, but their styles are at odds. Musk is an engineer, a visionary, an empire-builder. He sets a goal — electric cars, humans on Mars — and sticks to it no matter the odds. He does not entirely care, or even know, what the people around think o…