Anand Giridharadas

“I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.”

“Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.”

“The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.”

“For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.”

“To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.”

“Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.”

“When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.”

“As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points.”

“In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant.”

“I am very happy to be an American. I realize what a valuable inheritance that is.”

“My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.”

“There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office.”

“Our societies have experienced the magic that occurs when pluralism flourishes and the marginalized assume their proper powers. But loss stalks those victories, as millions revolt against change and supremacies resurface.”

“Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.”

“Of the many ways in which Donald J. Trump is disrupting American politics, one of the most compelling is his disregard for the established rules of communicating with voters.”

“To those portions of the electorate fed up with politics as usual, Mr. Trump's willingness to say just about anything and to improvise as he goes seems more refreshing and trustworthy than disqualifying.”

“In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she was eating it, too, my mother found herself newly enchanted by the taste of food.”

“America has two clear tiers of workers: contractors and employees. The former have few regulatory protections; the latter have many.”

“Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.”

“More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.”