Growing up in the United States, each American child is taught that everyone is created equal and therefore has an equal chance to get to the top. The ideological glue that binds this promise is the myth of the “level playing field,” a concept of our democracy as a system that rewards the individual based on merit. Regrettably we do not… return to article
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