How the News Got Woke—and Why It Matters

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Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, by Batya Ungar-Sargon (Encounter Books, 234 pp., $28.99) As books go, 2020 was meritocracy’s annus horribilis. Daniel Markovits warned of The Meritocracy Trap, while The Tyranny of Merit earned Michael Sandel several book-of-the-year awards. Both books pointed to meritocracy’s potential to legitimize inequality beyond the point of […]

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