Our elite-education system has a lot to answer for, Brooks argues. We need a new set of meritocratic values.

A longtime conservative, alienated by Trumpism, tries to come to terms with life on the moderate edge of the Democratic Party.

For two decades during the World War II era, James Conant was president of Harvard, which is when he and other college ...

For The Atlantic’s December cover story, “How the Ivy League Broke America,” contributing writer David Brooks argues that America’s meritocratic system is not working, and that we need ...

America is the land of inequality disguised as opportunity, and though elite institutions have played a role in that ...

But when he sets out to reinvent the American meritocracy and the education system that feeds into it, I can only accompany ...

I was intrigued by the title on David Brooks’ cover story in the December issue of The Atlantic: “How the Ivy League Broke ...

David Brooks is nothing if not good at describing a problem. In a 2020 cover story for The Atlantic, Brooks focused on the ...

So, what’s led this divide? For the Atlantic’s December issue cover story, Contributing Writer David Brooks argues that the dysfunctional system of meritocracy is largely responsible and needs ...

For The Atlantic's December cover story, contributing writer David Brooks argues that the nation's top schools are trapped in an outdated system of meritocracy that needs to be redefined.