The Rich Roll Podcast · 2026-10-05 · 133 min · 21,908 words

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

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I'm trying to get you into the head of all these kinds of people. Not because I like this one or I like this one or I think you should like this one, but because I actually think there is a real Lost civic art. in being able to mentally leap into someone else's hand. Anon gived out us, everybody. Anon Girard Ardas is a journalist who has written for the New York Times and many other outlets. The author of the new book out tomorrow titled Man in the Mirror. It reports on the case of Jordan Neely. Black mentally ill homeless man gets onto a train, he starts acting out, and within that thirty seconds.

A white former Marine named Daniel Penny. Puts him in a chokehold. and continues to hold Jordan Neely for another five or so minutes, ultimately killing him. It just immediately was. An American Rorschach test.

Hero or vigilante. All of America felt like it was compressed. Into that subway car. And I think this is very important to understand. When

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