Winners Take All

Journalist Anand Giridharadas On The Lost Art Of Empathy, Compassion, & Understanding Each Other

The Rich Roll Podcast, 5 October 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 12 min 32 sec in.

Anand Giridharadas describes Winners Take All, his third book, as a passionate case against oligarchy in American life. He recounts how it grew from a speech at the Aspen Institute confronting wealthy philanthropists—arguing that powerful people are asked to do more good but never to do less harm—and that the book was a deeply reported investigation of that world.

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