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Jews are extravagantly overrepresented in every field of intellectual accomplishment. Why?
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April 2007 |
Charles Murray |
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Even as the scientific evidence becomes increasingly inarguable, the subject of innate differences among groups remains as undiscussable as ever. It is time to reacquaint ourselves with reality.
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September 2005 |
Charles Murray |
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July/August 1999 |
Reviewed by Charles Murray |
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To commemorate Commentary's fiftieth anniversary, the editors addressed the following statement and questions to a group of American intellectuals:
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November 1995 |
Elliott Abrams, Joseph Adelson, Robert L. Bartley, Arnold Beichman and William J. Bennett |
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To the Editor:
In “ ‘The Bell Curve’ and Its Critics” [May], Charles Murray does your readers a disservice by using the same standards of evidence and scholarship that he adopted in the book he wrote with the late Richard J. Herrnstein.
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August 1995 |
Charles Murray and And Critics |
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In November 1989, Richard Herrnstein and I agreed to collaborate on a book that, five years later, became The Bell Curve.
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May 1995 |
Charles Murray |
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In the 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton's television ad promising to “end welfare as we know it” was one of his best vote-getters, so effective that it was the first choice for a heavy media buy in closely contested states at the end of the campaign.
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December 1994 |
Charles Murray |
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In the tight and sometimes nervous world of people who write about IQ, this book has been a topic of conversation for a long time.
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December 1992 |
Reviewed by Charles Murray |
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“Is President Bush hinting that the Peace Corps destroyed the moral fiber of poor people?” asked Albert Shanker, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, responding to the claim by the White House spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, that the failed social programs of the 1960's were responsible for the Los Angeles riot.
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July 1992 |
Charles Murray |
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The 80's are more and more coming to be characterized by journalists, historians, and intellectuals as a costly if not a disastrous decade for America.
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September 1990 |
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Robert B. Reich, George Gilder, Paul Berman and Charles Murray |
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Although we may be seeing a traditional liberal cycle in policies
that affect middle-class and upper-class interests, education, the environment, industrial regulation, and the like, policies aimed at the black underclass in the inner city are likely to reflect a different, and more ominous, set of dynamics. These policies will turn out to be custodial in nature, and their effect will be to make the underclass into wards of the state.
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September 1988 |
Charles Murray |
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The nation is faced with some critical social pathologies that are not going to be solved or even much changed by a continuation of present policies. Policies can be devised that plausibly will have large positive effects. But each of them entails a major departure from business as usual, and each has a dark side that must be accepted as part of the price of the improvement that might occur.
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May 1985 |
Charles Murray |