Meritocracy

Image: Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain Do people in Britain resent the rich? According to two new studies published this week, the answer to this question is: not really.The studies, one commissioned by Trust for London and another by Tax Justice UK, explore public attitudes towards wealth based…

Dr. Laura Baur is a psychiatrist with interests in literature review, reproductive psychiatry, and relational psychotherapy; see her website for more. Note that due to conflict of interest she doesn't treat people in the NYC rationalist social scene. Momentu…

Jarrett Bell USA TODAY Published 7:30 AM EST Feb 13, 2020 Colin Kaepernick’s voice is getting stronger. That much is clear as the former NFL quarterback plans to announce Thursday he is writing a memoir to be released this year through his newly formed company, Kaepernick Publishing, in a partnership with Audible.…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended comments she made about the "bootstrap" meritocracy by invoking Martin Luther King Jr. "I see that the right is worked up that we pointed out the myth of bootstrapping when 60% of the wealth in this country is *inherit…

University of California’s review of its admissions procedures smiles on SATsLIKE ANY hotbed of scholarly activity, the University of California (UC) is no stranger to rows. Recently a debate over the use of SATs and ACTs, tests used in college admissions, has spilled out from campus and into the courtroom.…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Im no good at counting, so I asked Carol Bagan, the house manager at the city auditorium in Concord, New Hampshire, how many people had just heard South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg give a speech. Six hundred and fifty to 700 souls, she sa…

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A new book criticizing the modern economy makes no allowance for personal agency or responsibility.The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite, by Daniel Markovits, Penguin Press, 448 pagesOne way to tell the history of the last millennium or so—the way Alexis…