Meritocracy

Matthew Yglesias — Meritocracy Is Bad

Caitlin Flanagan — The Fury of Prep-School Parents

Michael Lind — The New American Elite

Agnes Callard — A More Perfect Meritocracy

Jennifer Senior: 95 Percent of Representatives Have a Degree. Look Where That’s Got Us

Thomas Edsall: The Resentment that Never Sleeps

Hochschild — Strangers in Their Own Land

Sandel: The Tyranny of Merit

Alain de Botton: On Asking People What They ‘Do’?

Schooling the Meritocracy: How Schools Came to Democratize Merit, Formalize Achievement, and Naturalize Privilege