The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite, by Daniel Markovits (Penguin Press, 448 pp., $30) The Meritocracy Trap, by ...

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Daniel Markovits,the author of The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite, is Tom Needham's exclusive guest this ...

Daniel Markovits explains to The Nation how elite education is destroying the middle class and exacerbating inequality. Daniel Markovits.(Photo by Stephanie Anestis) “Merit is a sham,” Daniel ...

Yale law professor Daniel Markovits says the system that values hard work and promotes the American dream is in itself a sham. He is taking aim at the very structure that made him a success in his ...

Meritocracy has taken quite a beating lately. Even as COVID-19 has reduced the global power elite to awkward Zoom chats and toilet paper humor, we are still not spared the obligatory weekly article ...

Daniel Markovits, the newly appointed Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School, works in the philosophical foundations of private law, moral and political philosophy, and behavioral ...

In each corner is a a professor of law at Yale University, and the battle is over the future direction of the country. Anthony T. Kronman’s “The Assault on American Excellence” and Daniel Markovits’ ...

One way to tell the history of the last millennium or so—the way Alexis de Tocqueville did—is to describe a transition from aristocracy to democracy. In the old days, some people had the goods, some ...