{"id":2327,"date":"2020-09-11T11:36:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T11:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2020-09-16T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T11:37:30","slug":"professor-adrian-pabst-reviews-michael-sandels-new-book-for-prospect-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/09\/11\/professor-adrian-pabst-reviews-michael-sandels-new-book-for-prospect-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Adrian Pabst reviews Michael Sandel&#8217;s new book for Prospect Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our age of polarisation, merit is one of the few principles on which all politicians agree. Surely society ought to reward success earned through talent and hard work? Yet, as Michael Sandel\u2019s brilliant book shows, our meritocratic system contains the seeds of tyranny\u2014the unjust rule of \u201cwinners\u201d over \u201closers\u201d that diminishes the mutual obligations on which democracy depends.<\/p>\n<p>This review by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2270\/pabst-adrian\">Adrian Pabst<\/a> appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/magazine\/michael-sandel-on-why-winners-shouldnt-take-it-all\">Prospect Magazine<\/a> on 1st September 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/313\/313112\/the-tyranny-of-merit\/9780241407592.html\"><strong>The Tyranny of Merit: What\u2019s Become of the Common Good?<\/strong><em>\u00a0by Michael Sandel (Allen Lane, \u00a320)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our age of polarisation, merit is one of the few principles on which all politicians agree. Surely society ought to reward success earned through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/09\/11\/professor-adrian-pabst-reviews-michael-sandels-new-book-for-prospect-magazine\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}