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Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of changing the world

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The Government Is Us

We are absolutely in a state where the government is not quite us because it has been captured. The old distinction between either you're against a rapacious private sector or against a bloated government is actually an old and outdated distinction, he says. What i argue for is we have to take back the public sphere that doesn't only mean government but civil society or activist groups who put pressure on government.

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