"Some 60 Years After Its Birth, the Meritocracy Seems More and More Morally Vacuous"

"The only way to remedy this system is through institutional reform that widens the criteria by which people get sorted. For instance, we need more pathways to success, so those who are not academically inclined have routes to social leadership; programs like national service, so that people with and without college degrees have more direct contact with one another; and an end to policies like residential zoning rules that keep the affluent segregated on top. More broadly, changing this sorting mechanism requires transforming our whole moral ecology, such that possession of a Stanford degree is no longer seen as signifying a higher level of being."

At The Atlantic, David Brooks writes about "How the Bobos Broke America."

And Patrick Wyman discusses the "American Gentry."