This post is an essay by Wilfred M. McClay, published in Hedgehog Review in 2016. which explores the problems with meritocracy. Here's a link to the original. This is an issue I've explored a lot in this blog (see the list here), and I'll be coming back to it again from time to time. It's … Continue reading McClay — A Distant Elite: How Meritocracy Went Wrong
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