A newsletter on politics and culture, money and power -- telling the truth without fear -- from Anand Giridharadas
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A little less alone
A book can make you feel more alive. It can make you feel less alone. It can help you feel connected to people unlike you. It can help you see others.
When so much in the world seems to undermine our sense of common humanity, a book can re...
Listen for the rhymes
Earlier I hopped on here impromptu to read out loud my New York Times essay and talk to folks about some of the ideas there.
Because of copyright law, I had to excise the reading of the article, but I’m happy to share the little conversati...
Do you feel abandoned?
First of all, thank you for reading and sending me so many nice notes about yesterday’s New York Times essay. It was so nice hearing from so many of you. On the Times site, the article attracted more than 1,300 comments, which is a lot even...
No One Is Coming to Save Us
The short version: The New York Times is running a guest essay today by yours truly, based on my new book, MAN IN THE MIRROR. It’s about how a tragic subway killing that divided America actually revealed what we have in common.
Read it at...
The friend who changed my life
Do your friends tell you the truth? It’s a hard thing to do. I’ve been lucky enough to have a few who have over the years. And in this conversation on Monica Lewinsky‘s podcast, I tell the story of my writing journey over the last decade-pl...
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Publisher of The.Ink. My new book, MAN IN THE MIRROR, comes out 9/29.
President/Founder, PRRI. Writing on religion & protecting democracy. NYT bestselling author of BACKSLIDE; The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy; White Too Long; The End of White Christian America. https://linktr.ee/robertpjones
Group Dialogue Facilitator and Author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet And Why It Matters and (as of Sep 8, 2026!), The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict.
Venture capitalist, serial entrepreneur, class traitor. In 2014, I warned my fellow plutocrats that the pitchforks would be coming for us if we kept hoarding all the wealth...and here we are.
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