Anand Giridharadas

 For plutocrats like Jeff Bezos, their wealth is so vast that by distributing even a small fraction of it, they skew the public agenda toward the kind of social change they can stomach – the kind that doesn’t threaten them or their class.

It was a bad week for billionaires with delusions of saving the world

In recent years, a swelling chorus has grown critical of America’s bajillionaires. But in the extraordinary week gone by, that chorus was...