On Contact: Legitimizing American meritocracy – Danny Haiphong

Host Chris Hedges talks with journalist Danny Haiphong about how the myths of American meritocracy and individualism are used to legitimize the accumulation of inherited wealth by the ruling elite class. Haiphong’s new book with Roberto Sirvent is American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News – From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.



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