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The Influencer September 15, 2022
Charles Murray’s social science is sometimes provocative, usually controversial, and always significant to the national debate....
Inconvenient Truths March 21, 2022
Today’s corporate press regularly churns out articles with a predictable theme: too few black people have this or that important position or advantage. As I began this review, a local newspaper was complaining that hourly workers at Amazon are mostly...
The Immortal Sowell March 14, 2022
n a reasonable world, Thomas Sowell’s life would be celebrated in the same way we honor Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, and Marian Anderson—as a black hero, born into a genuinely systemically racist America, who not only endured but pre...
IQ and race in America October 19, 2021
The headline-making chart in Charles Murray’s Facing Reality (Encounter, 2021) is the non-euphemistic layout of estimated IQ by race: Asian American 108, white non-Hispanic 103, Latino 94, African American 91.Murray takes pains to point out that thos...
Race Claims Need Examining with a Cool Eye August 20, 2021
One sentence in the new book by the American political scientist Charles Murray, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America, leapt out at me. Suggesting that the reader might imagine living in a lower-class, multiracial city neighbourhood, he w...
Social Darwinism in the United States August 06, 2021
In 1853, Joseph-Arthur, Comte de Gobineau published a tract entitled “Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races”, in which he argued that “history springs only from contact with the white races” and that miscegenation with “commoners” as well as wit...
Telling the Hardest Truths about Race July 12, 2021
For many years now, Charles Murray has been a lightning rod, a hero to the right and a leading villain to the left. As I noted in my review of his 2013 book, Coming Apart, Murray’s writing often combines trenchant empirical analysis with substantial ...
Charles Murray Is Afraid of You July 09, 2021
The most important chapter of Facing Reality, a new book by renowned social scientist Charles Murray, is the final one, titled, “If We Don’t Face Reality.” The book’s subtitle is “Two Truths About Race in America.” What are those two truths? First, r...
Charles Murray Warns US is at 'Crisis Point' June 18, 2021
The United States is facing a potentially world-changing crisis in which it could cede its standing as one of the last free societies that governs without prejudice toward or against certain groups, political scientist and author Charles Murray said ...
The Politics of Race Will Wreck America June 16, 2021
The American experiment is fragile. It has always been fragile and always will be fragile because it is so extremely unnatural. ‘Unnatural’ in this context means in conflict with human nature. Jonah Goldberg has described the fragility of the America...
What I'm Reading This Summer June 11, 2021
I have a bit of a book problem. So far we haven’t gotten to the point where I need an intervention — although my husband has said a few times in our 11-year marriage, “Let’s stop buying so many books for a while, okay, babe?” — but I do have to keep ...
Charles Murray on "Human Diversity" June 02, 2021
Charles has a new — and probably explosive — book coming out soon, Facing Reality. This conversation is not about that. Instead, I wanted to discuss his last book which received almost no attention, Human Diversity.You can listen to the episode right...
Genetics Will Revolutionize Social Science March 04, 2020
Almost all human traits are partly heritable. That’s been known for decades. But until a few years ago, no one knew what specific bits of DNA code determine any given trait. Now, however, geneticists have identified at least a few hundred variants in...
Charles Murray Returns March 02, 2020
Just when the world seems poised to boil over with political rancor and outrage, along comes Charles Murray — right on time — with a new book titled “Human Diversity.”Yes, that Charles Murray, who in 1994 co-authored “The Bell Curve,” with Richard J....
How Genetics Disprove Woke Dogmas March 02, 2020
In his new book, “Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class,” Dr. Charles Murray uses authoritative scientific findings to disprove woke dogmas like “gender is a social construct.” On this episode of the Federalist Radio Hour, Host Ben ...
Brave Spaces: Free Speech on Campus June 15, 2018
When members of the National Socialist Party of America planned to march through the largely Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois, in 1977 with swastikas on their banners, they were not supposed to be interfered with. That was their right; that ...
