meritocracy
Why 'Limitless' Ended Up Being a Great TV Show About Millennial Angst
The TV follow-up to the cult Bradley Cooper thriller used the trappings of a standard procedural to draw a psychological map of the 2010s.
The College Scam Is Exposing All the Legal Ways Rich People Game Society
The real question is what took so long for the country to start looking at this stuff more closely.
How Treating Students As Customers Turns the Idea of Meritocracy into a Joke
Recent education reforms start to make sense if you read them as an attempt to make inequality worse.
Silicon Valley Girls: Growing Up Female Among the Bay Area's Elite
As young women growing up in Silicon Valley, my classmates and I never struggled with discrimination. Our privileged upbringing shielded us from inequality.
How We Came to Misunderstand Meritocracy
Much to the chagrin of the man who coined the term half a century ago, we’re missing the point.
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