Meritocracy Week

It’s Meritocracy Week on Engelsberg Ideas. Leading writers explore the global history of merit in culture and politics. Do meritocracies deliver on their promise? Is meritocracy working? Can the concept be fixed?

Podcast episodes

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Victory Parade marking the 70th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany in the Second World War.
The brain as a weapon of war.
'Taming the British Lion'. Puck magazine, 1888.
Rudolph Müller, View of the Acropolis from the Pynx (1863).
A painting displaying the splendour of the Neapolitan fleet.
High-rise buildings in Hong Kong.