Tesla Tantrums: Consumer Choices in the Age of Performative Ethics

A member of the Seattle Fire Department inspects a burned Tesla Cybertruck at a Tesla lot in Seattle on March 10, 2025. AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File

Commentary

The French have an apt expression for those vexing moments when, having exited a spirited exchange, the perfect rejoinder belatedly arrives. They call it l’esprit de l’escalier—“the wit of the staircase.”