The Repairman
Fall, 2019
According to Anand Giridharadas, money can't fix a broken democracy when the checks are cut by the elite. Inside the journalist's unexpected calling to fix a crumbling system, one speaking gig at a timeThe e-mail that led to the speaking gig that led to the book deal that led to the mid-career-ish reinvention arrived in Anand Giridharadas’s in-box about four years ago, at the tail end of May. The Aspen Institute, a fantastically influential (and equally deep-pocketed) think tank, was planning i...