Until Omicron forced a late change of plans, the World Economic Forum was expected to hold its annual meeting in person in Davos, Switzerland this coming week. That was to be the context for the release of Davos Man by Peter S. Goodman, a New York Times reporter, on Tuesday. The book is a pointed critique of the Forum and US CEOs—including Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, Larry Fink, and Stephen Schwarzman—who are part of the class of globe-trotting billionaires which political scientist Samuel Huntington dubbed Davos Men. It’s an impressively detailed recounting of the reordering of conventions of...