The Meritocracy Trap Condition:Well Read the reclusive author of a

the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales

Decisions about love

Leslie looks at what feeds curiosity and what starves it

and social life of the twelfth century

including water slides

The Meritocracy Trap Condition:Well Read the reclusive author of aEven in the midst of runaway economic inequality and dangerous social division, it remains an axiom of modern life that meritocracy reigns supreme and promises to open opportunity to all. The idea that reward should follow ability and effort is so entrenched in our psyche that, even as society divides itself at almost every turn, all sides can be heard repeating meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we think we are. But what if,