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In an old piece making the rounds on Twitter, the British sociologist Michael Young, who coined the term “meritocracy”, urges its removal from the…
Last Tuesday, I went up to New Haven to hear Ron Unz debate college admissions at the Yale Political Union. The listed topic was “…
Regulars on this site have probably already read Ron Unz’s provocative analysis of admissions policies at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. If you haven’…
Keying off Samuel Goldman’s excellent post last week on the meritocratic elite, I thought of the late Christopher Lasch’s mid-’90s classic…