278 | Michael Sandel on the Case Against Meritocracy

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David and Helen talk to the philosopher Michael Sandel about the damage that the idea of rewarding people on merit has done to education, democracy and public life.  Why is it wrong to try to match the best students to the best universities?  What is credentialism and how has it warped the way work is rewarded?  Whatever happened to the idea of the common good?  Plus we discuss America's sense of itself as God's chosen
nation in the age of Obama and Trump.