Is success achieved only through hard work? It is not so straight forward. Environment, luck, systemic biases all play a role to some extent. Interesting discussions around meritocratic systems and their moral implications..
- A More Perfect Meritocracy, Boston Review. Review of two books (1)The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice by Fredrik deBoer and The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael Sandel
- Morally Naked, sydney review of books. Review of Michael Sandel’s book
- The Woke Meritocracy, Tabletmag. How telling the right stories about overcoming oppression in the right way became a requirement for entering the elite credentialing system
- The Death Cult of Smart, americanaffairsjournal. Review of Fredrik deBoer’s book
- Earning Our Stripes, literary review UK. Review of The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World By Adrian Wooldridge
- Equality and the elites, newstatesman. How political ideas such as “levelling up” draw on centuries of meritocratic thinking.
- In defence of meritocracy, newstatesman. Why an idea dismissed as an excuse for elitism offers Labour’s only path to victory. (by Adrian Wooldridge)