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• Open Thread: The Lyin’ in Winter

  
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  Now that Game of Thrones has wrapped up its third season , another prominent fantasy dynasty has volunteered to fill in for the summer: … News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch and his third wife, Wendi Deng, are splitting, Deadline Hollywood reports (confirmed here ). The 82-year-old Murdoch reportedly filed for ...
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• The age of global plutocracy: Chrystia Freeland at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Photo: James Duncan Davidson The most important economic fact of our time, says Chrystia Freeland , author of Plutocrats , is that we are living in an age of surging income inequality, a global phenomenon that includes the US and UK, certainly, but also Communist China, India, and, she says, “we’re even seeing ...
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• Silicon Valley is Not a Meritocracy

  
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  Not long ago I had a rather heated debate with a young man at a happy hour for YGLs . The young man exclaimed that Silicon Valley is a special place because it is a meritocracy. I said that I agreed it is a nice place but Silicon Valley is not a meritocracy. He was angered by my comment and went on to try and ...
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• Meritocracy is an appalling idea that no one believes in even though everyone claims to

  
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  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has caused some ripples with his address a couple of days ago at Princeton. In his speech he offered 10 “suggestions”, mirroring the Ten Commandments. One of these concerned “meritocracy”, about which he said the following: We have been taught that meritocratic ...
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• Stop Talking About Meritocracy

  
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  In an old piece making the rounds on Twitter, the British sociologist Michael Young, who coined the term “meritocracy”, urges its removal from the public lexicon. Although a lifelong man of the Left, Young sounds remarkably like Charles Murray: Underpinning my argument [in The Rise of the Meritocracy ] was ...
  2 weeks ago

• At Least I Don’t Have To Cop To Yale

  
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  This is going to be a rooting-for-injuries post, I know, but reading this made my happy from within a pool of wince: To get to Yale, you effectively must pass through a fifteen year funnel. No company can match that kind of screening rigor, so why not leverage it? From a company’s point of view, it would be dumb ...
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• What good is money if you cant use it to go to the head of the line?

  
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  They are 1 percenters who are 100 percent despicable. Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World — by hiring disabled people to pose as family members so they and their kids can jump to the front, The Post has learned. The “black-market Disney guides” run $130 an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Does Education Really Improve Society?

  
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  Whether or not education really improves society comes down to whether the school and assessment systems in place are able to both train its students, and set up the right kind of skills and life experiences for future employment. The history of education, particularly in the UK, demonstrates an ongoing effort to ...
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• Take me to another place

  
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  If you thought that inane pop culture political analogies would play a less prominent role in elite political discourse once people stopped reading Frank Bruni and MoDo …I present you with young Conor’s latest: I’ve never watched “Arrested Development”, I’m sure it’s great, but I’m Ron ...
  3 weeks ago

• Salim Ismail Talks About the Age of Technological Disruption

  
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  Main Label  ReasonTVs Tracy Oppenheimer caught up with Salim at the 2013 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, CA to discuss crowd funding, the next steps in technological... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Mannish boys

  
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  K-Thug ( via ) is onto something here: It was obvious during the runup to the Iraq war that what was going on in the minds of many hawks — and not just the neocons — was not so much a deep desire to drop lots of bombs and kill lots of people (although they were OK with that) as a deep desire to be seen as ...
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• Whack a mole

  
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  A convincing case can be made that Jonathan Karl is a GOP mole : Karl came to mainstream journalism via the Collegiate Network, an organization primarily devoted to promoting and supporting right-leaning newspapers on college campuses (Extra!, 9-10/91)—such as the Rutgers paper launched by the infamous James ...
  4 weeks ago

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