As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
More and more, the superrich don't live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
“that his tendency to hate could ultimately save his life. In fact, in” — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
In Europe, more than in the United States, worldly people, faced with my Indian skin, reflexively laud my 'ancient,' 'beautiful' origins, which is heartier… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of the future that have no place for the other. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Taking offense is, in fact, one of the few things that brings us together. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
