Wicked and the Crisis of Competence
Why a Broadway musical about a misunderstood green witch is secretly about meritocracy, narrative gamesmanship, and our current crisis of competence.
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Why a Broadway musical about a misunderstood green witch is secretly about meritocracy, narrative gamesmanship, and our current crisis of competence.
Three of Mozart's greatest operas share the same plot: a powerful man tries to take your wife. The pattern reveals an artist working through his own anxieties about power and class.
In June 2017, I submitted my thesis on China's Middle East strategy. Two months later, an Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs scholar published a paper with the same argument.
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