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We Don’t Know Our Potential ❧ Current Affairs

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<p>A new book argues that socialism is necessary because innate differences in intelligence expose meritocracy as a sham. Socialism is indeed good, but this particular argument fails utterly. </p>

We Don’t Know Our Potential A new book argues that socialism is necessary because innate differences in intelligence expose meritocracy as a sham. Socialism is indeed good, but this particular argument fails utterly. Nathan J. Robinson filed 20 September 2020 in Education Fredrik deBoer’s The Cult of Smart is a book about human potential: what we can all do and the conditions under which we can do it. I first read it nine months back—these days, that seems like a whole different life ago. The book was not out then; I had snagged a very early review copy, since I share the author’s publisher. I

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