"What began as a principle that seemed to offer an alternative to inequality has become instead a justification for inequality."

"Recent years have seen the democratic spirit advancing at the expense of the meritocratic. Here’s why that’s a problem."

"In ‘The Tyranny of Merit’, Michael J. Sandel writes about contemporary attitudes toward success, failure, and meritocracy."

The largely dominant meritocratic paradigm of highly competitive Western cultures is rooted on the belief that success is due mainly, if not exclusively, to personal qualities such as talent, intelligence, _...Read More_