The Dream of Meritocracy Produces Monsters

About this Episode

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/