Anand Giridharadas When the Market Is Our Only Language

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 5:26 p.m.

We Americans revere the creation of wealth. Anand Giridharadas wants us to examine this and how it shapes our life together. This is a challenging conversation but a generative one: about the implicit moral equations behind a notion like \u201cwin-win\u201d\u2014 and the moral compromises in a cultural consensus we\u2019ve reached, without reflecting on it, about what and who can save us.\nAnand Giridharadas is a journalist and writer. He is a former columnist and foreign correspondent for \u201cThe New York Times\u201d and a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He is the author of \u201cIndia Calling,\u201d \u201cThe True American,\u201d and \u201cWinners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.\u201d\nFind the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.