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Meritocracy

A Year Later -- My Clarion Call to America Left Unanswered

Lynn Tilton | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Small Business, Lynn Tilton, Economy, Economic Crisis, Wall Street, Clarion Call, Recession, Main Street, Obama, Gdp, Job Creation, Meritocracy, Obama Administration, Business News
Lynn Tilton

We are living in interesting times and the road to resurgence will be long and fraught with obstacles. The path to economic recovery begins with truth.

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Breaking the Gender-Merit Link

Nancy Hopkins | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Empathy, Boston Globe, Ted Kennedy Senate Seat, Empathy, Merit Pay, Sonia Sotomayor, Steve Kornacki, Hillary Clinton, Yvonne Abraham, Massachusetts, Meritocracy, Ted Kennedy, Martha Coakley, Politics News
Nancy Hopkins

When someone suggests gender diversity as an asset of a job candidate, the reply is often "Oh no, I'm only interested in merit." Yet name some other quality needed for the position, and the idea of merit is assumed, not questioned.

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Meet the Black Elite!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Akron Ohio, Champagne, Tennessee Williams, Gregory Generet, Fashion Week, High-Society, Norma Darden, New York, Meritocracy, Breakfast at Tiffany's, N Boutique, Audrey Hepburn, Mojo, Reggie Van Lee, Tracy Reese, Style, B. Michael, Party, Evidence Dance Company, Cicely Tyson, Cecil Beaton, Fashion, East River, Ludget Delcy, Studio Museum in Harlem, Reginald Canal, Black Elite, Michelle Paterson, Obamas, White House, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

That the charity of New York's best events is secondary, even insignificant, in contrast to the stylishness of those in attendance, is a 'dirty secret' that's routinely denied.

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Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"

Anis Shivani | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ivory Tower, Deconstruction, Postmodernism, Aphasia, Derrida, Ivy League, Mormonism, Lost in the Meritocracy, Intellectuals, Meritocracy, Yale, Harvard, Walter Kirn, Education, Keasbey Scholarship, Wall Street, High Schools, Princeton, Western Canon, Competition for Ivy League, Rhodes Scholarship, Theory, Schools, Academia, Education Reform, Higher Education, Public Education, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Postmodern Theory, Learning, Elite, Oxford University, Class, Oxford, Minnesota, Ruling Elite, Income Inequality, Great Books, Classics, Humanities, Politics News
Anis Shivani

Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.

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The American Nightmare

Rob Fishman | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Vicky Ward, Liar's Poker, Middle Class Economy, Wall Street, Ragged Dick, American Dream, The Epic of America, Middle Class, Aig, Michael Lewis, Edward Liddy, Meritocracy, Business News
Rob Fishman

Of all the misdeeds carried out on the southern tip of Manhattan over the last decade, perhaps Wall Street's greatest fraud was to arrogate the very meaning of the American Dream.

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Are You Worthy? It's Time to Question Meritocracy

Phillip Martin | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Farm Workers, Foreclosures, Merrill Lynch, Poverty, Molly Secours, Bank of America, Rick Santelli, Wall Street Bonuses, Meritocracy, Home Foreclosures, Politics News
Phillip Martin

Rick Santelli's self-righteous outburst directed at down-on-their-luck foreclosed home buyers amounts to what the late sociologist William Ryan termed "blaming the victim."

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The Audacity of Whiteness: Framing Barack Obama

Jill Nelson | Posted 03.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jordan, Michelle, Entrenched, Apple Cart, Retro, Oprah, Obama, Skinheads, Irate, Media, Race, Possibility, Post-Racial, Exceptionalist, Meritocracy, Klaatu, Fred Armisen, African American, Journalism, Gordon Brown, Politics News, Fred Armisen Barack Obama SNL, New Yorker, Fred Armisen Barack Obama, Gwen Ifill, Saturday Night Live, African Americans, Media News
Jill Nelson

In journalism, white people who are granted the role of analyzing everyone, including African Americans, who are likely overlooked or spoken for by white expert opinion.

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Italy: No Country For Young Men

Alessandro Fusacchia and Fabio Oliva | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: Generational Divide, Italy, Italian Politics, Obama, Youth Empowerment, Rena, Meritocracy, Infrastructure, World, Public Transportation, Red Tape, Europe, Barack Obama, Transportation, World News
Alessandro Fusacchia and Fabio Oliva

Change, unfortunately, is hard to come by in Italy, a country bogged down by red-tape, political scandals and lack of innovation.

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Living and Dying American

Stephen Herrington | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living

Read More: President Obama, The Clintons, James Winborn Turner, Greatest Generation, Man on the Moon, America, 9/11, The Flag, Civil War, Democratization, Win, Reagan, Ayn Rand, American History, Texas History, Houston, Pride, Great Depression, American Nostalgia, Preemptive War, American Know How, Marines, Trickle Down, Meritocracy, Texas, Shareholder Value, Barack Obama, American Attitude, Patriotism, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam, Living News
Stephen Herrington

Back then a typical Republican was to the left of the Clintons. Nixon was a transition. It took Reagan to really define the world in which we now live, in which merit is no longer of value.

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