Meritocracy

In the following excerpt from her new book Minor Feelings, out this week from One World, the poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong defines the titular emotions by way of the comedian Richard Pryor. Richard Pryor, 1969. Photo: Berk Costello. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Like most writers and artists,…

By Julia Gamolinalong ReadJean Brownhill is an architect and the founder and CEO of Sweeten, a service that matches people with major renovation projects to general contractors. She developed Sweeten while attending Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design as a Loeb Fellow in 2011 and is one of just 11…

You know how a stray comment can stick in your mind and not let you focus on anything else for a while? That happened this week. On Monday I had the chance to return to the Bay State for Ross Gittell’s class on community college leadership at the Harvard Graduate…

Feb 26, 2020Ariel HelwaniESPN Staff Writer Let's make something very clear right off the bat:Jose Aldo getting a bantamweight title shot against Henry Cejudo isn't the most egregious title shot in UFC history.No, that distinction still belongs to Alexander Gustafsson, who got a shot at then-light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier…

Lisa Nandy claims she “would have the courage to listen” to voters’ concerns about immigration, while arguing that Labour should make the case for freedom of movement. Nor was she alone in this balancing act: Keir Starmer attempted something similar on the Today programme yesterday, pledging to scrap the government’s…

Anyone familiar with Bryant Terry’s work as a James Beard award–winning educator, chef, and author knows his M.O.: He’s been teaching the importance of eating whole foods, and working to create a healthful, just food system since his beginning as a grassroots activist almost 20 years ago. Terry was inspired…

In the paper Owning Ethics: Corporate Logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of Ethics by Jacob Metcalf, Emanuel Moss and Danah Boyd the authors investigates the role and pitfalls of ethics in big cooperate firms in Silicon Valley and how underlying logic in the industry influences how ethics is understood…

Network neutrality is the principle that obliges data carriers, the telecommunication companies that transport internet traffic, to not discriminate as to the content that they transport, they are ‘neutral’ towards it. February 24, 2020 by P2P Foundation Leave a Comment — By Michel Bauwens Network neutrality is the principle that…

Imagine Yankee Stadium filled with individuals worth $1 million each; Bloomberg is richer than all of them combined. 6:00 AM ET Staff writer at The Atlantic Mark Felix / AFP / GettyHow rich is Michael Bloomberg?We can measure it in numerical terms: He is worth an estimated $64 billion. That…

The Gray Area of Casting For Characters of Color in Games “People of color are more visible in games today than ever before. We’re even seeing many taking center stage, such as Bayek in Assassin’s Creed Origins, Alex Hunter in FIFA 17’s single-player campaign “The Journey,” and Kait Diaz in…