{"id":580,"date":"2024-08-31T19:10:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T19:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/31\/the-roots-of-stem-excellence\/"},"modified":"2024-08-31T19:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T19:10:46","slug":"the-roots-of-stem-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/31\/the-roots-of-stem-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of STEM Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/the-roots-of-stem-excellence-higher-education-cognitive-ability-over-dei-df09f6c7?st=lnae1l50jqogeuv\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">An important WSJ article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> by Charles Murray.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I wish Murray were more direct and less worried about being called a racist and a white supremacist. An excess of prudence and a deficit of courage? It is interesting how these two cardinal virtues<a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/courage-the-rarest-of-the-virtues?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=copy\"> pull in opposite directions<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/facing-reality-two-truths-about-race?utm_source=publication-search\">Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important WSJ article by Charles Murray.&#0160; I wish Murray were more direct and less worried about being called a racist and a white supremacist. An excess of prudence and a deficit of courage? It is interesting how these two cardinal virtues pull in opposite directions.&#0160; Related: Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}