This guy is remarkably intelligent – and hated by the left, of course.
Charles Alan Murray, born January 8, 1943, is an American political scientist. He is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank in Washington, D.C.
As reference, here is a bit about Charles Murray. This is from a post I wrote about IQ eleven years ago:
For more on this subject, read about The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. [The following quote is from Wikipedia. In their article, they claim that the views of the book’s authors have been “discredited by mainstream science” and that “Many of the references and sources used in the book were advocates for racial hygiene, whose research was funded by the white supremacist organization Pioneer Fund. ” ]
a 1994 book by American psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein (who died before the book was released) and American political scientist Charles Murray.
Its central argument is that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and is a better predictor of many personal dynamics, including financial income, job performance, chance of unwanted pregnancy, and involvement in crime than are an individual’s parental socioeconomic status, or education level.
The book also argues that those with high intelligence, the “cognitive elite”, are becoming separated from those of average and below-average intelligence, and that this is a dangerous social trend with the United States moving toward a more divided society similar to that in Latin America.
Of course, commonsense has fled in some sectors – primarily the educational elitists.
Murray has written many book on various topics. As an example of some of his other works, he challenges “educational romanticism” in Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality. His “four simple truths” are as follows:
*Ability varies.
*Half of all children are below average.
*Too many people are going to college.
*America’s future depends on how we educate the academically gifted.
Partial bibliography:
A Behavioral Study of Rural Modernization: Social and Economic Change in Thai Villages, Praeger Publishers, 1977.
Beyond Probation: Juvenile Corrections and the Chronic Delinquent (with Louis A. Cox, Jr.), SAGE Publishing, 1979.
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980, Basic Books, 1984, ISBN 0465042317. Analyzes welfare reform.
In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government, Simon & Schuster, 1989
Apollo: The Race to the Moon (with Catherine Bly Cox), Simon & Schuster, 1989
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (with Richard J. Herrnstein), Free Press, 1994
What It Means to Be a Libertarian, Broadway Books, 1997
“IQ and economic success”, The Public Interest (1997): 128, 21–35.
Income Inequality and IQ, AEI Press, 1998.
The Underclass Revisited, AEI Press, 1999. PDF copy
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950, HarperCollins, 2003. A quantification and ranking of well-known scientists and artists.
In Our Hands: A Plan To Replace The Welfare State, AEI Press, March 2006, ISBN 0844742236.
Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing American Schools Back to Reality, Crown Forum, August 2008
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010, Crown Forum, 2012
The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don’ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life, Crown Business, 2014
By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission, Crown Forum, 2015
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class, Twelve, 2020
Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America, Encounter Books, 2021
In addition to these books, Murray has published articles in Commentary magazine, The New Criterion, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.
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