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Decline, Fall, & The Uncle Monty Option

Decline, Fall, & The Uncle Monty Option

Yes, the sacred order is collapsing -- but we can laugh, can't we?

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‘Oh, my boys, we’re at the end of an age.’ — Uncle Monty

Late last week Matt and I went to a lecture in Vienna by Michael Sandel, the legendary Harvard political theorist. In it, Sandel criticized meritocracy as an assault on the common good. I agreed with some of what he had to say, and disagreed with other parts of his talk. For example, he never addre…

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