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Meritocracy and Battle Royale
What online games can tell us about our culture of cutthroat competition and rampant inequality.
Brendan Mackie
Brendan Mackie is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, where is writing a dissertation on clubs and societies in 18th-century Britain. He hosts a podcast, The Making of a Historian. He is currently on the job market.