Six Tales on Elite Faculties

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Elite colleges breed entitlement, entrench inequality—after which fake to be engines of social change.

The meritocracy isn’t working. We’d like one thing new.

Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everybody—even the wealthy—depressing. Perhaps there’s a manner out.

It’s not promoting out; it’s shopping for in.

Change them, and you modify America.

To learn a guide in school, it helps to have learn a guide in highschool.

1. Love Hurts, an motion film starring Ke Huy Quan as a realtor who’s pressured to confront his previous life as a success man (in theaters Friday)
2. The 67th Annual Grammy Awards, hosted by the comic Trevor Noah (streaming on Paramount+ tonight)
3. Pure Harmless Enjoyable, an essay assortment by Ira Madison III that mixes memoir and pop-culture evaluation (out Tuesday)

The web is rising extra hostile to people. Google outcomes are filled with search-optimized spam, unhelpful commercials, and AI slop. Amazon has grow to be suffering from undifferentiated junk. The state of social media, in the meantime—fractured, disorienting, and vulnerable to boosting all method of misinformation—may be succinctly described as a cesspool.

It’s with some irony, then, that Reddit has grow to be a reservoir of humanity.