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Meritocracy and its Alternative

"The thing about meritocracy is we’d really like it to work"

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O. Alan Noble
Jun 29, 2022
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Today I have a featured article over at the Center for Hebraic Thought on the myth of meritocracy:

Whenever a student comes into my office in tears, I know there’s a very good chance that the source of their anguish is an overwhelming drive to be successful. I think my students are just trying to apply Paul’s admonition in Colossians 3:23–24: “Whatever …

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