Instead they pin the blame for American culture’s breakup on various forms of market deregulation. They aren’t prepared to trace the invidious phenomenon known as identity politics back to the cultural revolution of the 1960s, and they express little regret for the left’s hostility to religion and contempt for tradition. Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier’s new book, The Tyranny of the Meritocracy,’’ proposes a new framework, one focused on advancing democratic rather than testocratic merit. Sandel has no brief against the use of merit to select well-qualified people to perform certain jobs or tasks. These liberals typically don’t assign blame for the breakup of American life to themselves and their forerunners on the political left. In The Tyranny of Merit, Sandel offers a penetrating indictment meritocracy’s false promises and issues a clarion call to all of us and the center-left in particular to rediscover the politics of the common good. But as acclaimed scholar and pioneering civil rights advocate Lani Guinier argues, the merit. Three or four decades ago, they couldn’t stop ridiculing 1950s America for its supposed dullness and “conformity.” But lately it has occurred to many of them that a society bereft of shared ideals isn’t the happy place they once assumed it would be. The tyranny of the meritocracy : democratizing higher education in America 'Standing on the foundations of Americas promise of equal opportunity, our universities purport to serve as engines of social mobility and practitioners of democracy.
For the past decade, and especially since the election of Donald Trump, liberal writers have begun to rethink the left’s decades-long infatuation with individual autonomy and the attendant loss of solidarity in American life.
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