What Anand Giridharadas thinks about America
American writer and journalist; author of Winners Take All (2018), The Persuaders (2022) and Man in the Mirror (2026), and of the newsletter The.Ink, which he started in 2020.
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4 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Anand Giridharadas has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsA death on the subway that seemed to prove that Americans now inhabit perfectly sealed, irreconcilable moral universes actually revealed one of the last things we have in common — abandonment.
↗ESSAY: The feeling that unites a divided Americathe.ink 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsOur common abandonment keeps failing to produce a common politics — solidarity across difference — because all too often, as in the Penny and Mangione cases, the way the story is told silos it.
↗ESSAY: The feeling that unites a divided Americathe.ink 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsThis makes it harder to see that taking matters into one’s own hands has become a rare thread of our common life, a final American glue.
↗ESSAY: The feeling that unites a divided Americathe.ink 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsDonald Trump is not just a president; he’s a culture. He is a reflection, in many ways, of what we had allowed ourselves to become as a country.