Manny’s: How To Talk Politics: A Conversation w/ NYT Best Seller Anand Giridharadas

In recent years, news coverage and the discussion of important political events has moved almost entirely online. This has made it more complex to have difficult and necessary conversation around politics. In addition, the act of political organizing and mobilization is now all focused online, leaving out the very fundamental human to human connection that grassroots organizing depends on. This doesn’t even include the polarization that has accompanied the increased digital presence in politics.

So, how do we talk about politics then?

Join us for a special conversation with Anand Giridharadas as we celebrate the release of his new book The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

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About Anand Giridharadas:

Anand Giridharadas is a writer.

He is the author of The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy (2022), Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (2018), The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (2014), and India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking (2011). A former foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times for more than a decade, he has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Time, and he is the publisher of the newsletter The Ink.

He has spoken on stages around the world and taught narrative journalism at New York University. He is a regular on-air political analyst for MSNBC.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he was raised there, in Paris, France, and in Maryland, and educated at the University of Michigan, Oxford, and Harvard.

He has received the Radcliffe Fellowship, the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, Harvard University’s Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Priya Parker, and their two children.