In this episode, Diane details the discussion of the history, pluses, and minuses with meritocracy through the prism of three recent books on the topic. Michael and Diane then discuss how this ...

A recent conflict in a Mississippi high school illustrates why meritocracy is not always the same numerical equality. In that case, two African-American students were selected as valedictorian and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration has championed "merit" while pushing to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, including ...

Anyone paying attention the past few years will have heard the news that the United States is now an aristocracy. That is what critics of meritocracy, left and right, have concluded. The supposedly ...

The notion of "meritocracy," where the most talented rise to the top through skill, discipline and determination, fits neatly with the American dream. It reassures us that success is earned and that ...

The concept of meritocracy seems to have fallen out of favor in political and academic circles, with large corporations, to their detriment, joining in the criticism. At a local level, however, our ...

Ben Shapiro is host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire. A graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, he is a New York Times bestselling author whose latest book is "The ...

Today, parents scramble to shuttle their kids to and from extra-curriculars, provide them with SAT prep, and leverage their money and connections — all to get their children admitted into elite ...

This has been a summer of elite discontent. First there was the feverishly debated essay by Princeton’s Anne-Marie Slaughter about the inability of privileged professional women like her to “have it ...

What has become of the common good? Political theorist Michael Sandel traces how meritocracy went from a satiric idea in the 1950s to a bedrock of American culture – and what we might have lost in its ...

One way to tell the history of the last millennium or so—the way Alexis de Tocqueville did—is to describe a transition from aristocracy to democracy. In the old days, some people had the goods, some ...

In each corner is a a professor of law at Yale University, and the battle is over the future direction of the country. Anthony T. Kronman’s “The Assault on American Excellence” and Daniel Markovits’ ...