Winners Take All
Event
“I saw how the rich and powerful have given rise to what I call ‘fake change’— incremental private-sector fixes to our social problems that distract us from their own role in sustaining these business practices."- Anand Giridharadas
In his latest book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes the reader into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where rich and powerful "philanthrocapitalists" fight for equality and justice any way they can—except in ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it.
Throughout the book, Giridharadas asks hard questions: Why do we outsource change-making to self-interested billionaire and millionaire saviors? Why should our gravest problems be solved by the private sector and the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions they erode by lobbying and dodging taxes? Do Americans really believe that a corporation’s generous donation to a good cause absolves terrible behavior committed in the process of making those profits?
On September 19th join New America NYC at NeueHouse for a conversation with Anand Giridharadas about the dangers of accepting self-serving generosity as a substitute for social justice.
Seating for this event is first-come, first-served. Copies of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World will be available for purchase.
