The Meritocracy Trap Kasi Lemmons A Third Face: My Tale

A Third Face: My Tale of Writing

international bestseller that has transformed how we shape our judgements and make decisions

called “gripping" and "fascinating" by William Taubman in the New York Times

and the end of the free love/hippie movement

The Meritocracy Trap Kasi Lemmons A Third Face: My TaleA revolutionary argument from an eminent Yale Law professor, attacking the myth of meritocracy to show how it has caused today's political, economic, and psychological crises and how we might escape its trap. Even 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