When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Thomas Frank THE MERITOCRACY TRAP How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles ...

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Markovits is Guido Calabresi professor of law at Yale Law School and the author of The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the ...

Steps on the Columbia University campus, 2020. (Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty Images) The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the glaring contradictions in American higher education. State research universities ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Daniel Markovits,the author of The Meritocracy Trap: How America's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Ivy League professors launch website to protest tax cuts for wealthy. Jan. 3, 2011 — -- President Obama and his Republican rivals may have reached a compromise for a tax plan, but a group of Ivy ...

In theory, Labor Day marks a weekend of rest for many American workers. Yet at a time when professionals tend to see their job as integral to their identity, true breaks can be hard to come by. Even ...