Why did anyone think that Sharon White, a career civil servant, was the right person to lead John Lewis? Did they have something other than the best person for the job in mind?
John Tierney has written a terrific piece for City Journal puncturing the myth of male privilege. By almost every metric, he points out, women in contemporary western societies are faring better than men.
Why is Western civilisation suddenly in crisis? Politics professor Dr James Alexander sets out the reasons, from the decline of Christianity to the rise of identity politics.
American educated elites have turned against meritocracy in their claims of 'systemic racism'. But, ironically, in doing so they 'justify' their own privileges by signalling their moral superiority over the hoi polloi.
The new 'progressive' elite is waging war on meritocracy as being supposedly 'white' and 'racist' and is pushing quotas and race-based selection in its place, writes Adrian Wooldridge.
