STEM Is Not an Alien Menace [Uncertain Principles]


Everybody and their extended families has been sharing around the Fareed Zakaria piece on liberal education. This, as you might imagine, is relevant to my interests. So I wrote up a response over at Forbes.


The basic argument of the response is the same thing I’ve been relentlessly flogging around here for a few years: that while I’m all for a broad education, the notion that studying a STEM subject and studying “the human condition” are in opposition or even cleanly separable is just foolish. But it’s a great excuse to start that argument at Forbes, so…






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Everybody and their extended families has been sharing around the Fareed Zakaria piece on liberal education. This, as you might imagine, is relevant to my interests. So I wrote up a response over at Forbes.


The basic argument of the response is the same thing I’ve been relentlessly flogging around here for a few years: that while I’m all for a broad education, the notion that studying a STEM subject and studying “the human condition” are in opposition or even cleanly separable is just foolish. But it’s a great excuse to start that argument at Forbes, so…






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