This post is a recent piece by Matthew Yglesias from his Substack site Slow Boring. Here's a link to the original. It's part of an ongoing series of posts here about the problems of meritocracy (for example, this, this, this, and this.) As Yglesias notes, most critiques of meritocracy are focused on the failures of … Continue reading Matthew Yglesias — Meritocracy Is Bad
This post is an wonderful essay by Jonathan Rauch, The War on Professionalism. It was published in the current issue of National Affairs. Here's a link to the original. This essay is a celebration of professionalism, in a populist period when to call someone professional seems seems slanderous. Here's how he sets the context for … Continue reading Jonathan Rauch — The War on Professionalism
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 