meritocracy

What Did John Lewis Expect When it Appointed a Career Civil Servant and Quangocrat?

Why did anyone think that Sharon White, a career civil servant, was the right person to lead John Lewis? Did they have something other than the best person for the job in mind?
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What is China’s Political System?

The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China is currently taking place and Dongsheng will be publishing a series of videos in order to better understand this political event. China is at the center of the world’s economy and geopolitics, however little is known about its internal politics. So, what is China’s political system? […]
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Masters of Illusion: Sociopathy from the Very Rich on Down

Nothing Changes With the Rich! You just can’t make this stuff up as a fiction writer (also, see below, at the end of this piece**). Demonic, but sturdy. Boring actuarial folk, or in this guy’s case, making loot illegally in the legal channel that is Illegal Wall Street: Thomas Peterffy became one of the world’s […]
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Mask Up/Sink or Swim: Feedback Loops, Lag Times, Albedo Effects

I remember a long time ago, finding a Life (or Look) magazine at a swap meet in Arizona, on the outskirts of Tucson. Man, those were the days – 1977. Every sort of snow bird and desert rat out there swapping any number of a million things: from shrunken and powdered dog testicles (for the […]
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