About The Ink
Welcome to The Ink, a newsletter from Anand Giridharadas, where we ask the hardest questions about politics and culture, money and power.
The media is in crisis. The old sources of trust and authority are crumbling, but we’re also living through a media renaissance, and we’re betting that newsletters — like this one — are a big part of that. We’re working to build the future of media today, answerable only to readers, not billionaire owners
That means you’re going to get something different here, different from what you have come to expect from traditional publications: We’re never going to “hand it to” the White House, or wave off an abuse of power as an “audacious” gesture, or tacitly endorse an illegal, unconstitutional attack on our freedoms by marveling at the strategic chess brilliance of the broligarchs.
Instead, we’ll bring you regular conversations with writers, thinkers, doers, artists, political leaders, movement builders, and others whose ideas you need to engage with. And we look not just for explanations, but for solutions to the threats facing American democracy. We want to make you see the world in new ways — and empower you to build the world you want to see
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About Anand
The Ink is by me, Anand Giridharadas.
I’m the author of four books “The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy,” “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World,” “The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas,” and “India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking.”
I have spent much of my career working for traditional media. I spent 11 years reporting and engaging in columny for The New York Times, filing from Italy, India, China, Dubai, Norway, Japan, Haiti, Brazil, Colombia, Nigeria, Uruguay, and the United States. I’m also a political analyst for MSNBC.
But as change gusts through the media, I have felt drawn to creating a space and community of my own. With this newsletter, I hope to create a more intimate bond with many of you who do me the honor of reading and engaging with my work.
