New York Times: " Are We All in This Together?" - "Mobilizing to confront the pandemic and, eventually, to reconstruct the shattered economy, requires not only medical and economic expertise but also moral and political renewal. New Yorker: " A Political Philosopher on Why Democrats Should Think Differently About Merit" - "Looming above America’s present struggles over injustice and inequality is the sense that certain self-mythologies are beginning to evaporate." Harvard Magazine: " No One Deserves a Spot at Harvard" - "The British sociologist Michael Young coined 'meritocracy' in 1958 in the title of a satire, The Rise of the Meritocracy, which purported to look backward from 2034 at a dystopian United Kingdom on the brink of revolution."
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Her new book, The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America, has just been published by Beacon Press. New York Times: " Disdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice" - "Joe Biden has a secret weapon in his bid for the presidency: He is the first Democratic nominee in 36 years without a degree from an Ivy League university."įinancial Times: " Why meritocracy isn’t working" - "Several years ago, a wise colleague wrote a wonderfully contrarian column arguing that no organisation should hire more than a few very clever people." Elite colleges admit students in a way that will fail to diversify higher education - and the current use of affirmative action has little impact, according to a new book by Lani Guinier.
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The Guardian: " Michael Sandel: 'The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit'" - "Michael Sandel was 18 years old when he received his first significant lesson in the art of politics."
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Excerpted from TYRANNY OF MERIT: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J.