Over the course of the pandemic, perhaps no facet of inequality has grown more dramatically than wealth, writes Daniel Markovits.
Daniel Markovits
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 Elite, published by Penguin Press
America's top universities need to decide if they want to be equal or elite. Education must become less meritocratic and less hierarchical.
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