Anand Giridharadas Quotes

Anand Giridharadas is an American author and journalist. He has written books such as "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World" and "The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas." Giridharadas' writings explore topics of inequality, power, and social change. His contributions to journalism and his thought-provoking analysis have garnered attention and acclaim.

The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.

To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.

In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she was eating it, too, my mother found herself newly enchanted by the taste of food.

Our societies have experienced the magic that occurs when pluralism flourishes and the marginalized assume their proper powers. But loss stalks those victories, as millions revolt against change and supremacies resurface.

Wealth plays out in the political sphere in all kinds of ways, often personally. Can Hillary Clinton represent the interests of working people when she and her husband have taken so much money from Wall Street? Was Mitt Romney's private-equity business too ruthless with workers?

Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect and justify myself: to re-brand what was good for me as something appearing good for us both, when I threw around terms like 'the sharing economy' and 'disruption' and 'global resourcing.'

Taking offense is, in fact, one of the few things ... -Anand Giridharadas

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

Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.

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.

Americans don't realize how difficult it is to cre... -Anand Giridharadas

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

When rooted, you observe how systems actually affe... -Anand Giridharadas

When rooted, you observe how systems actually affect people.

Democracy doesn't automatically safeguard women an... -Anand Giridharadas

Democracy doesn't automatically safeguard women and minorities.

To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation.

America has deep, fundamental institutions that ta... -Anand Giridharadas

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

Of the many ways in which Donald J. Trump is disrupting American politics, one of the most compelling is his disregard for the established rules of communicating with voters.

There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office.

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

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

I'm a Cleveland Indian by birth.... -Anand Giridharadas

I'm a Cleveland Indian by birth.

In Europe, more than in the United States, worldly people, faced with my Indian skin, reflexively laud my 'ancient,' 'beautiful' origins, which is heartier praise than Cleveland usually gets from Europeans.

I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of t... -Anand Giridharadas

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

Though it is perhaps expected for the bishop of Rome to warn against the idolatry of money, what is striking is how Francis suggests that not only God but also secular politics must outrank economic imperatives.

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

When it comes to granting unconditional birthright citizenship, the United States and Canada are alone in the industrialized world: North American exceptionalism, you can call it.

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

It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the Occupy movement are, in many ways, saying the same thing, but it requires a bit of imagination to get people to see that.

Mr. Trump is an entertainer, bringing a rawness and wildness to the presidential race that no other candidate can come close to matching.

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

My mother grew up strong. She was a charismatic leader among her peers, staging plays, organizing projects, raising money for charity; she was fiercely protective of her younger brother, with whom she shared a passion for jazz and rock and roll.

There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.

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