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Our Muted Conversation

August 27, 2005 06:17 PM

Charles Murray has a thoughtful and even optimistic essay on the state of the current conversation about group differences. It includes a good review of recent research on male/female and white/black differences in intellectual accomplishment. It dares to discuss the emerging science about group differences and it is only a beginning as the power to unravel the genomic information we all carry becomes available. Nothing in his review is sexist or racist, though he will be accused of both no doubt, it is just straight-ahead, unblinking science. It may prove inconclusive or wrong, but the evidence is gathering that much of it will stand for a long time.

It is time to unmute the conversation and begin to discuss the meaning of equality, not as equality of outcomes, but of freedom to achieve. Beginning with the increasingly more untenable premise that everyone is equal as a premise for social policy leads to poor policy that may restrict choice and freedom in order to force inequality where it cannot exist.

This is a followup to new research that I reported in my post on male/female intellectual differences. Charles Murray.

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