Marty Nemko

Should we redistribute more? In my PsychologyToday.com article today , I explore both sides in an internal debate.

Philosophers like today's hot Richard Rorty, whom the New York Times called, "One of the world's most influential contemporary...

I just watched Harvard law professor, Randall Kennedy (pictured right,) deliver a speech excoriating America for not doing enough for its po...

I just posted this to a forum for career counselors but it has relevance to anyone who has or might try to help a weak candidate land a job....

A new, praised book, Underdogma, asserts that America's now replacing meritocracy with egalitarian policies such as redistributive ...

My blog's subtitle says I'm "libertarian- leaning. " A reader asked me what that means. I believe the free market yields t...

A client just left and I just have to tell you what she said. Elena (name changed) is a social worker. In 2005, she wanted to buy a house bu...

My previous post made a case for redistributive "justice." Here I argue that, beyond a small amount, the liabilities of redistribu...

I end each of my radio shows by saying: "We find comfort among those who agree with us; growth among those who don't." In my o...

Everyone's trying to "make a difference." Even right-wing advertisers like American Express are jumping on the "make-a-di...

I am dispirited by the media's accelerating failure to do what it has heretofore always considered its primary responsibility: to provid...

Readers of this blog know that I believe strongly in meritocracy, but all ideologies have weaknesses. The weakness of meritocracy is that a ...

It's odd for me to be raising that question in that I'm a career counselor. Yet stories like this one a client told me just an hour ...