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Category Archives: Charles Murray
Amy Wax: Truth, Transgression, and the Modern University
Part Two Part Three Amy Laura Wax is a pressure point inside the modern university, a figure through whom deeper institutional contradictions become visible. Her biography tracks a classic ascent through the highest tiers of American meritocracy. Having secured that … Continue reading
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The Camouflage Imperative
Biosocial scientists and anyone who takes the heritable, evolutionary component of human behavior seriously are operating in an environment engineered for asymmetric punishment under uncertain evidence. Modern elite institutions, especially academia but also large segments of media, foundations, NGOs, and … Continue reading
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Decoding Charles Murray
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory reads Charles Murray as a case of strategic insulation through elite alliances combined with permanent mass-outgrouping. His rise. Murray entered public life through institutions that value provocation within guardrails. Think tanks, foundations, policy salons. He supplied … Continue reading
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Why did Charles Murray sink into depression after The Bell Curve came out?
How did he emerge from depression? I thought he was stronger than this. Grok says: Charles Murray’s experience following the 1994 release of The Bell Curve, co-authored with Richard Herrnstein, offers a window into the personal toll of public controversy, … Continue reading
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‘On knowing what you are not supposed to know and feeling what you are not supposed to feel’
You might visit this website because you know things you are not supposed to know and you feel things you are not supposed to feel. If so, welcome! Attachment expert Heidi Priebe says in this April 6, 2024 video titled … Continue reading
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Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
Here are some highlights from Charles Murray’s new book: * From the first census in 1790 through the 1850 census, the population within America’s settled regions was 82–84 percent European and the rest was African. Subsequent tides of immigration increased … Continue reading
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F. Roger Devlin Interview (6-21-21)
I first interviewed Roger Devlin in 2015 (MP3). Out of everyone I’ve interviewed in my life, I don’t recall feeling as intimidated as I did when calling Mr. Devlin in August of 2015. Here is a partial transcript of the … Continue reading
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Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class By Charles Murray
Here are some excerpts from this new book: * In 1960, a few years before second-wave feminism took off in the United States, only 41 percent of women ages 25–54 were in the labor force. In 2018, that figure stood … Continue reading
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Donald Trump Causes Charles Murray To Change His Mind On Low-Skill Immigration
AEI: But there are certainly going to be politicians, even if Trump should lose badly, who present a cleaned up version of the Trump agenda and say “I can sell that.” So you’re going to have a populist, Trump-like candidate, … Continue reading
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Skirting Around The Impact Of IQ
Comments on Charles Murray’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed: * In writing for the WSJ, Murray must skirt around ‘IQ’, which is a major contributing factor for the decline of the ‘middle’. Murray knows this, too – he wrote a … Continue reading
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