Meritocracy

This essay is part of our 'a summer without...' series. Read more here. *** When you are seven years old and you are watching the French Open, and you don’t know better, you simply support Steffi Graf. It’s 1992, she is up against Monica Seles and she is about to…

Quantum computing is increasingly becoming the focus of scientists in fields such as physics and chemistry, and industrialists in the pharmaceutical, airplane, and automobile industries. Globally, research labs at companies like Google and IBM are spending extensive resources on improving quantum computers, and with good reason. Quantum computers use the…

While I haven’t physically left my apartment for longer than an hour at a time since mid-March, I’ve built a museum, two stores, a bridge, and three houses and planted various fruit and palm trees. Though my actual social and work lives have slowed to a crawl or halted entirely,…

A prison composed of “reading,” “writing,” “arithmatic” (yes, “arithmatic”), and the Bible. That is how an illustration in the latest issue of the Harvard Magazine portrays homeschooling. While other children run and play outside, the poor homeschooler squints out between the bars. (An updated version of this illustration changes “arithmatic”…

Skip to comments. Goodbye Meritocracy, Hello…What? James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | April 20, 2020 | Shannon Watkins Posted on 04/20/2020 8:06:15 AM PDT by karpov Is meritocracy just? Just a short time ago, it was commonly accepted that it is the fairest way to determine who…

The pandemic has driven Americans into the streets to protest. However, they are not protesting a federal government that has caused life-threatening delays in a response. They are protesting state governments that are requesting people stay home to help cut down on the spread of COVID-19, which could overwhelm the…

Social, cultural, economic, spiritual, psychological, emotional, intellectual: Everything is outside the box. And this new sheltered-in-place experience won’t fit into old containers.Photo Illustration by Africa Studio / ShutterstockMany of us are stuck now, sheltered in our messy dwellings. A daily walk lets me appreciate the urban landscaping; but I can’t…

When universities closed in March due to COVID-19, and my celebrity course transitioned online, I was no longer able to share informal chats and insights about celebrity news and gossip with my students. Recently, I’ve noticed a change in celebrity culture. Like capitalism, it has pivoted. The change speaks to…

When universities closed in March due to COVID-19, and my celebrity course transitioned online, I was no longer able to share informal chats and insights about celebrity news and gossip with my students. Recently, I’ve noticed a change in celebrity culture. Like capitalism, it has pivoted. The change speaks to…

Gardner Minshew II currently is the starting quarterback in Jacksonville. But Cam Newton is available, and Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette has publicly clamored for the team to sign Newton.Jaguars coach Doug Marrone addressed Fournette’s infatuation with Newton during Friday’s Lunch Talk Live on NBCSN.“You know, with players, you’re always going to…