Demeritocracy: Should We Still Believe in Meritocracy?
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Democratic Party Is Using the Language of Meritocracy
Tom Frank: The Democratic Party is using the language of meritocracy to replicate the power of the ruling class. Obama administration and Wall Street banks are demographically identical, he says. With neither major American political parties now representing the working or middle classes, we need to face the uncomfortable fact that meritocracy may turn out to be entirely undemocratic in its results., Tom Frank writes.
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