Meritocracy and predictability

There is nothing more predictable than a critique of meritocracy, and this article in the Chronicle is no exception:  It contains 10 critiques of meritocracy, most of them utterly predictable. Anybody who doesn't know how to critique meritocracy in the expected ways does not merit a place in educational decision-making.  However, it does have a nice opinion piece by Thomas Chatterton Williams, who knows how to say more than just what we expect to hear.