David Brooks: How the Meritocrats Broke America

This post is a new piece by David Brooks, recently published online at Atlantic.  Here's a link to the original. He's writing about the way the meritocratic elite -- grounded in exclusive educational credentials -- has upended the American class structure.   The class structure of Western society has gotten scrambled over the past few decades. … Continue reading David Brooks: How the Meritocrats Broke America