CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS December 26, 2021 18:04:00
World, defends classic liberalism from another series of attacks. he points out for most of human history, people were selected for jobs and honors and riches because of their membership in a family or a court or a religion or ethnic group. the american revolution was actually extraordinary because it argued against monarchs, nobodies and clerics and set up a monarch based observe what jefferson called a natural aristocracy based on talents. they moved along that path abolishing landed privileges and making hiring based on tests and skills rather than family and connections. today meritocracy ...