About Anand Giridharadas
About The Ink
Welcome to The Ink, a newsletter from Anand Giridharadas, where we ask the hardest questions about politics and culture, money and power.
The media is in crisis. The old sources of trust and authority are crumbling, but we’re also living through a media renaissance, and we’re betting that newsletters — like this one — are a big part of that. We’re working to build the future of media today, answerable only to readers, not billionaire owners
That means you’re going to get something different here, different from what you have come to expect from traditional publications: We’re never going to “hand it to” the White House, or wave off an abuse of power as an “audacious” gesture, or tacitly endorse an illegal, unconstitutional attack on our freedoms by marveling at the strategic chess brilliance of the broligarchs.
Instead, we’ll bring you regular conversations with writers, thinkers, doers, artists, political leaders, movement builders, and others whose ideas you need to engage with. And we look not just for explanations, but for solutions to the threats facing American democracy.