State of the Union: Trump executive order revokes LBJ’s EO 11246.

A new book examines weaknesses in China’s meritocratic system—and in our own.

For the new elite, public service is a massive graduate seminar.

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’…