THE NEWEST York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of the way the global elite’s efforts to ‘change the world’ preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential go through for understanding a number of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news.

Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a fresh gilded age, where in fact the rich and powerful battle for equality and justice in any manner about Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World they can–except techniques threaten the cultural order and their position atop it. We observe how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the indegent; the way they lavishly reward ‘thought market leaders’ who redefine ‘switch’ in winner-friendly ways; and exactly how they constantly seek to do more great, but never less harm. We listen to the limousine confessions of the celebrated foundation manager; witness an American leader hem and haw about his plutocratic benefactors; and attend a cruise-ship meeting where business owners celebrate their very own self-interested magnanimity.

Giridharadas asks very difficult questions: Why, for instance, should our gravest complications be solved with the unelected upper crust rather than the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? He also points toward an answer: Instead of depend on scraps in the winners, we must undertake the grueling democratic function of building better quality, egalitarian organizations and truly changing the world. A call to action for elites and everyday people alike.