A Fireside Chat with Anand Giridharadas & Anurima Bhargava | ASU+GSV Summit 2026

Anand Giridharadas (Journalist, Author of “The Epstein Class”) joins moderator Anurima Bhargava (Founder & CEO, Anthem of Us) at the ASU+GSV Summit 2026 in A Fireside Chat with Anand Giridharadas to examine how power, accountability, and moral courage shape institutions and leadership.

Journalist, former New York Times columnist, and bestselling author Anand Giridharadas has written and spoken powerfully about the “Epstein class” — the elite networks of wealth, access, and influence that enabled Jeffrey Epstein to operate in plain sight. From his NYT essay “How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching” to his conversation with Ezra Klein on The Infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein’s Power, Anand examines the crimes and systems that made them possible: cultures of transaction over truth, access over accountability, and silence over moral courage.

Anand Giridharadas and Anurima Bhargava will explore what the Epstein case reveals about how power actually works, why so many people and institutions failed to act, and what it will take to build a culture where courage, not complicity, defines leadership.