The Left Should Embrace Meritocracy if Only for the Signal It Sends
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We’re currently up to our necks in election post-mortems — I swear I’ll only do 20 or 30 more of these. Naturally, these articles focus on what might have been done differently. What policies should have changed? What messages were ignored? Was adding an “x” to “latin” a problem, or was the problem that we didn’t add
Nepotism is Just One Part of Hollywood's Off-the-Books Celebrity Compensation System
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Last month, Vulture ran a feature piece about how common it is for Hollywood stars to have famous parents. I thought the article was a bit overwrought; I’m not sure we needed 4,500 words under the headline: BREAKING: HAVING RICH AND POWERFUL PARENTS CAN BE AN ADVANTAGE.
