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Someday I will be dead, and maybe you will want to know about the media I consumed or wanted to consume. Furthermore, while I am still living, perhaps you want ideas on gifts you could give me. Well, either way, you've come to the right place.
Feb 19, 2010
11:45am
Brooks - More meritocracy (perhaps), less trust
As we’ve made our institutions more meritocratic, their public standing has plummeted.
Government used to be staffed by party hacks. Today, it is staffed by people from public policy schools. But does government work better than it did before?
In 2007, 47 percent of Harvard grads went into finance or consulting. Yet would we say that banks are performing more ably than they were a half-century ago?
Now the lifestyle patterns of the college-educated are very different from the patterns in other classes. Social attitudes are very different, too.
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