Anand Giridharadas

America, thankfully, is not an easy nation to commandeer.

— Anand Giridharadas

When rooted, you observe how systems actually affect people.

— Anand Giridharadas

Democracy doesn't automatically safeguard women and minorities.

— Anand Giridharadas

I'm a Cleveland Indian by birth.

— Anand Giridharadas

Foundations are the new Birkin bags. Everyone who is anyone has one. Giving is now chic.

— Anand Giridharadas

“that his tendency to hate could ultimately save his life. In fact, in”

— Anand Giridharadas

The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.

— Anand Giridharadas

Taking offense is, in fact, one of the few things that brings us together.

— Anand Giridharadas

I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of the future that have no place for the other.

— Anand Giridharadas

We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.

— Anand Giridharadas

Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.

— Anand Giridharadas

I am very happy to be an American. I realize what a valuable inheritance that is.

— Anand Giridharadas

It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the…

— Anand Giridharadas

To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable…

— Anand Giridharadas

To those portions of the electorate fed up with politics as usual, Mr. Trump's willingness to say just about anything and to…

— Anand Giridharadas

Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But…

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I have a weakness for treating people's economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire…

— Anand Giridharadas

As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We…

— Anand Giridharadas

Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about…

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Though it is perhaps expected for the bishop of Rome to warn against the idolatry of money, what is striking is how…

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More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and…

— Anand Giridharadas

Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old…

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I live in places where, although I don't take public stands, I'm surrounded by liberals, and I've spent a lot of time…

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When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the…

— Anand Giridharadas

Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect…

— Anand Giridharadas

Wealth plays out in the political sphere in all kinds of ways, often personally. Can Hillary Clinton represent the interests of working…

— Anand Giridharadas

For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.

— Anand Giridharadas

Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

— Anand Giridharadas

In my reporting, I've found that real change escapes many change-makers because powerful illusions guide their projects.

— Anand Giridharadas

If you think America is great, remember that every person telling you otherwise may carry a clue to making it greater.

— Anand Giridharadas

My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.

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Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

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In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she…

— Anand Giridharadas

Of the many ways in which Donald J. Trump is disrupting American politics, one of the most compelling is his disregard for…

— Anand Giridharadas

There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the…

— Anand Giridharadas

One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed.…

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There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how…

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To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear…

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