Disciplined into Deserving: Education and the Reproduction of Meritocratic Reasoning
Grading, ranking, credentialing: how the form of schooling under class rule trains people to think they deserve what they get.
Essays
Symptoms Disguised as a Diagnosis
MacIntyre diagnosed modern moral incoherence correctly. He misidentified the cause as philosophical rather than material and his remedy thus fails.
Where the Logic Is Most Complete: Animal Use and Meritocratic Reasoning
Speciesism is where meritocratic reasoning operates most completely. That's why the unlearning should start here.
Hierarchy, Text, Violence, Religion
Innocence and the License to Kill: How Class Rule Produces Its Moral Categories
This essay examines one such category — innocence — and argues that it is the form in which meritocratic reasoning is applied to the question of who may be harmed.