In today’s social science, wishing makes it so
Yesterday, the Washington Post described an academic study that has been getting a lot of press recently. The authors used brain scans of 1,100 children and young adults to demonstrate that the surface...
View ArticleA CEO explains why CEOs make so much money
It began as an ordinary piece of fan mail, thanking me for writing a book I published a few years ago (“Coming Apart”) and expressing the writer’s shared concern with the loss of seemliness in American...
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Regulation run amok — and how to fight back
America is no longer the land of the free. We are still free in the sense that Norwegians, Germans and Italians are free. But that’s not what Americans used to mean by freedom.It was our boast that in...
View ArticleReview: The case for conservative civil disobedience
BY THE PEOPLE: Rebuilding Liberty Without PermissionBy Charles MurrayCrown Forum. 319 pages. $27.From the tea party to Occupy Wall Street to #BlackLivesMatter, America has spent much of this young...
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Charles Murray and Jonah Goldberg on civil disobedience
The American ideal of limited government on life support. Is it time for civil disobedience? Charles Murray says yes. Murray has been writing on government overreach for more than 30 years. His new...
View ArticleRebuilding liberty without permission: A conversation with Charles Murray
TranscriptEvent SummaryIn his provocative new book, acclaimed social scientist and AEI scholar Charles Murray explains that the American project — the idea that Americans should be left alone to live...
View ArticleHow Americans can use civil disobedience to restore liberty: Murray on ‘The...
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View ArticlePower to the people: Murray on Fox Business’s ‘Stossel’
W.H. Brady Scholar Charles Murray discusses his book 'By the People: Rebuilding liberty without permission' on Fox Business's 'Stossel.'
View ArticleDiscussion on ‘By the People': Murray on CNN’s ‘Fareed Zakaria GPS’
W.H. Brady Scholar Charles Murray discusses his new book 'By the People' on CNN's 'Fareed Zakaria GPS'
View ArticleThe American dream in crisis? A discussion with Robert Putnam, Charles...
TranscriptEvent Summary In “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” (Simon & Schuster, 2015), political scientist Robert Putnam illustrates the increasing inequality between rich and poor Americans...
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American high schools are going to hell. Unless you’re Asian.
Shutterstock.Remember a few weeks ago when hands were being wrung about the decline in SAT scores over the last ten years?Scores on all three of the SAT tests declined significantly — down 8 points on...
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Curing American sclerosis
Editor’s note: The following remarks were delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 29, 2015 honoring Charles Murray with the third Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society.I am a...
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The regulators’ yoke
Earlier this year, I published a book called “By the People” that laid out a plan for systematic civil diso bedience of stupid and pointless regulations. It is a subversive position. The rule of law is...
View ArticleThe united states of diversity
The received wisdom about multicultural America goes something like this: “At the time of the Founding, America’s free population was not only white but almost entirely British, and the nation’s...
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Trump’s America
If you are dismayed by Trumpism, don’t kid yourself that it will fade away if Donald Trump fails to win the Republican nomination. Trumpism is an expression of the legitimate anger that many Americans...
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An open letter to the Virginia Tech community
Last week, the president of Virginia Tech, Tim Sands, published an “open letter to the Virginia Tech community” defending lectures delivered by deplorable people like me (I’m speaking on the themes of...
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Lessons from the Bubble Quiz #1
One of my central propositions in Coming Apart, a book I published in 2012, was that a high-IQ, highly educated new upper class has formed over the last half century. It has a culture of its own that...
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