Meritocracy

Stick to sports? No chance. Athlete voices have never been louder.More than ever, our sporting heroes are leading the way for social justice, taking the platform their fame provides and using it to amplify issues that matter. In these awful days of unrest since the death of unarmed Black man…

Bertrand Bonello, director of such sensual films as House of Pleasures, Saint Laurent, and pointy, up-to-date social critique Nocturama, dabbles here in the zombie movie genre and turns it into a cautionary tale in the post-colonial, multi-ethnic France. It's an interesting investigation that is more in line with Jacques Tourneur's…

We often encourage women to act like men, but are they are good role model? Getty My latest book touched a nerve, generating passionate comments and reactions. It’s a book that people seem to love or hate, especially when they haven’t read it. This is arguably because of the title,…

Bell, Phil (2020) The meritocracy trap – book review. LSE Business Review (05 Apr 2020). Blog Entry. Text (businessreview_2020-04-05-the-meritocracy-trap-book) - Published Version Download (96kB) https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2... Abstract Rather than aiding social mobility, the concept of meritocracy is the greatest obstacle to equal opportunities in the US today - reviewed by Phil…

COMMENTARY Adding young talent is a priority in 2020 for a Patriots organization looking to build depth and rework an aging roster. After selecting 10 rookies in this year’s NFL Draft, the team also signed 15 undrafted free agents to its roster. Undrafted free agents are often overlooked when considering…

Adapted from The Coming of Neo-Feudalism (Encounter Books).  The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the global shift already underway towards a neo-feudal society. With the middle-class economy largely shut down and, in the best-case scenario, in for a long and painful recovery, the population that is barely hanging on is expanding…

Skip to comments. Pentagon bashes New York Times over 'white supremacy' editorial The Washington Times ^ | May 25, 2020 | Ben Wolfgang Posted on 05/25/2020 1:09:17 PM PDT by kevcol Top Pentagon officials late Sunday blasted The New York Times for a Memorial Day weekend editorial that criticized the…

The Great Divide is a recurring feature here at MMA Fighting in which two of our staff debate a topic in the world of MMA — whether it’s news, a fight, a crazy thing somebody did, a crazy thing somebody didn’t do, or some moral dilemma threatening the very foundation…

The outbreak of COVID-19 and the threat of a global economic depression has affirmed that while the American spirit is resilient, so too is our national division. Our politics in this moment seem fundamentally broken, and from our broken politics has emerged a broken government incapable of responsibly leading the…

Despite being an eternal disappointment to the majority of people, the capitalist-allied political establishment is able to remain in power in part by maintaining the illusion that politics is for experts, people with Rolodexes full of professional contacts, people who went to elite schools. Since the myth of meritocracy maintains…