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Meritocracy
August 29, 2024
Timothy Noah
The Case for Mediocrity
August is America’s dumbest month, but it has a life lesson for us all: Our overly meritocratic society should serve people as they are, and not as it wishes them to be.
September 30, 2021
Chris Lehmann
How the 9.9 Percent Uphold Inequality
The superrich gain most from a top-heavy economy. But it’s the class of meritocrats just beneath them who justify the system.
December 23, 2020
Magazine
Win McCormack
Meritocracy on Trial
It undermines equality and the common good.
September 5, 2019
Magazine
Sarah Leonard
The Fall of the Meritocracy
Ultra-educated, highly paid, overworked elites are not partners in the struggle to reform an unequal system.
July 29, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
An Attack on the Ivy League Is an Attack on Meritocracy Itself
July 22, 2014
Subscribers Only
William Deresiewicz
Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League
The nation's top colleges are turning our kids into zombies.
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February 27, 1995
Adrian Wooldridge
Bell Curve Liberals
How the left betrayed I.Q.
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