Saving Meritocracy

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.7 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Adrian Wooldridge, the political editor of The Economist, has written on topics as diverse as Alan Greenspan, the history of radicalism in British psychology, and the evolution of the modern Republican Party. In his latest book, The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, he seeks to counter recent attacks on the ideal of meritocracy. In this week’s conversation, Adrian Woolridge and Yascha Mounk discuss the hidden radicalism of the meritocratic ideal, China's embrace of meritocracy, and the West's misguided rejection of it. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: podcast@persuasion.community Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John T. Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Your life is full of times like this.
0:03.0	Oh yeah.
0:04.0	The gaps between the good stuff, like killing time and waiting rooms.
0:07.0	It's not long until you've had enough.
0:09.0	Listeners, it's time for some Tom Bola.
0:12.0	Vibing on your tea break
0:16.0	Chilling with a sponge cake
0:20.0	Mm. Get in just one 53 pounds.
0:23.6	Just a bit of bingo.
0:24.8	Tom Bola!
0:26.1	Open for fun!
0:27.6	Terms apply 18 plus.
0:29.0	Please play safely. The And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. from London and Hong Kong and I recently published a piece in persuasion entitled
1:03.9	Goodbye to Hong Kong, the city's time as an open and liberal society has run out.
1:08.3	In the peace I covered the dispiriting past year that Hong Kong has had.
1:11.9	Since the summer of 2020 when the
1:13.8	Hong Kong government passed a draconian national security law, Hong Kong's
1:17.3	freedoms have been dramatically eroded. Although at the time, Hong Kong Chief
1:20.8	Executive, Carrie Lamb, promised that citizens would continue to enjoy freedom of speech, a free press, free assembly, and much more.
1:28.0	Today, most pro-democracy politicians languish in prison.
1:32.0	The last major pro-democracy newspaper has
1:34.2	enforcedly shutters and pro-democracy advocates that I spoke to for the
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