Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy.

Companies that espouse hiring and promoting on merit are unlikely to do so in practice. Here's how to manage the meritocracy ...

Speaking of Thanksgiving, I’ve always been thankful to live in Florida, where, besides the forests and the beaches, we have ...

The American Heritage Dictionary defines meritocracy as “A system in which advancement is based on individual ability or achievement.” This term is often used by companies trying to defend their lack ...

I remember the first time I heard the term “meritocracy.” I was playing baseball on a junior-league team, and our coach (the father of one of my teammates) told us that the team would function as a ...

New York City's specialized high schools face falling standards and little progress on diversity under Discovery reforms.

In business terms, a meritocracy is a great leap forward from command-and-control, promoting people as it does on the basis of their intelligence and effort. But just as 'free trade' is rarely free, ...

In 1958, British sociologist Michael Young coined the term "meritocracy" in his satirical novel, called "The Rise of the Meritocracy." Its point was simple: When intelligence and effort are selected ...

Somewhere along the way, that principle was replaced by something softer, vaguer, with words like “collaboration,” ...

Learning and working is hard, so why bother, when it’s so easy to fake it? Thanks to generative AI, it has never been easier ...

Today, parents scramble to shuttle their kids to and from extra-curriculars, provide them with SAT prep, and leverage their money and connections — all to get their children admitted into elite ...