Meritocracy and its Alternative

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

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 …