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Episode 33: The Dream of Meritocracy Produces Monsters
Phil is joined by Eugene McCarraher, Professor of the Humanities and History at Villanova University, to discuss his article "A Providentialism Without God: The Case Against Meritocracy" as well as Goya's "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters"
The Manifesto:
Eugene McCarraher, "A Providentialism Without God: The Case Against Meritocracy"
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/providentialism-without-god
The Art:
Goya, "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleep_of_Reason_Produces_Monsters#/media/File:Francisco_Jos%C3%A9_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_The_sleep_of_reason_produces_monsters_(No._43),_from_Los_Caprichos_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Other works discussed:
Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984615
Michael Young, The Rise of the Meritocracy
https://www.routledge.com/The-Rise-of-the-Meritocracy/Young/p/book/9781560007043
Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374289980
David Goodhart, Head, Hand, Heart
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Head-Hand-Heart/David-Goodhart/9781982128470
Fredrik deBoer, The Cult of Smart
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250200372
William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep
https://billderesiewicz.com/books/excellent-sheep/
Alejandro Anreus, Shades of Suffering: Goya's Graphic Imagination
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/shades-suffering
Nicholas Penny, The People's Goya
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n18/nicholas-penny/the-people-s-goya
Julian Bell, Teeming With Things Unknown
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/10/08/francisco-goya-teeming-things-unknown/
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Phil is joined by Eugene McCarraher, Professor of the Humanities and History at Villanova University, to discuss his article "A Providentialism Without God: The Case Against Meritocracy" as well as Goya's "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters"
The Manifesto:
Eugene McCarraher, "A Providentialism Without God: The Case Against Meritocracy"
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/providentialism-without-god
The Art:
Goya, "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleep_of_Reason_Produces_Monsters#/media/File:Francisco_Jos%C3%A9_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_The_sleep_of_reason_produces_monsters_(No._43),_from_Los_Caprichos_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Other works discussed:
Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984615
Michael Young, The Rise of the Meritocracy
https://www.routledge.com/The-Rise-of-the-Meritocracy/Young/p/book/9781560007043
Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374289980
David Goodhart, Head, Hand, Heart
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Head-Hand-Heart/David-Goodhart/9781982128470
Fredrik deBoer, The Cult of Smart
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250200372
William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep
https://billderesiewicz.com/books/excellent-sheep/
Alejandro Anreus, Shades of Suffering: Goya's Graphic Imagination
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/shades-suffering
Nicholas Penny, The People's Goya
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n18/nicholas-penny/the-people-s-goya
Julian Bell, Teeming With Things Unknown
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/10/08/francisco-goya-teeming-things-unknown/
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