The Limits of Meritocracy
Give me a Brahmin over a Quant any day. by Christopher Orlet, from The American Spectator IN HIS classic study Democracy in America (1835), Alexis de Tocqueville described what he believed was a true meritocracy at work. Here was a country lacking a nobility and an aristocracy. The Adamses, the closest America had to an … More The Limits of Meritocracy