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The Myth of Meritocracy: Who Really Gets What They Deserve?

28 mins | Oct 27, 2018

Kwame Anthony Appiah, writing in The Guardian, argues that sorting people by ‘merit’ will do nothing to fix inequality.

How Democrats became the party of the upper middle class

17 min

How did rich millennials become the voice of generation rent?

10 min

Flickonomics: who does finance best on screen?

12 min

The strange case of America’s disappearing middle class

7 min

The revenge of the middle-class anti-elitist

6 min

The making of E. P. Thompson

35 min