Charles Murray Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Charles Murray

2/3 The graph shows the years 2012-2021. The source is the Census Bureau's annual American Community Survey. Percentages were calculated using sample weights. https://t.co/699jQPzC5L

Charles Murray

Hypatia is in a science inventory (she taught philosophy but is not known to have published anything). Walter Isaacson's bio of Einstein discusses his wife's role in some detail. "Co-wrote" is misleading. Important influence, yes (as are many wives of authors, mine among them). https://t.co/y5MJoAttaK

Charles Murray

3/4 but the received wisdom hasn't changed. See the denunciations of Nicholas Wade when he tried to share the news with a general audience in A Troublesome Inheritance in 2014. I have hopes that documentation of this scope and exhaustiveness about recent evolution will

Charles Murray

I'm reading William Inboden's The Peacemaker, detailing the extraordinary degree to which the anti-Soviet strategy of the Reagan years was Reagan's creation and his alone. I've always admired him, but nonetheless underestimated him. Like so many others. https://t.co/iJ2LWRuGjl

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@PyronJB A best-selling book in 1966 was Karl Menninger's "The Crime of Punishment," part of the assault on holding people accountable for their actions . But after 1964, it's also true that the policy elites didn't want to talk about awkward issues involving race.

Charles Murray

For Revolutionary War buffs, American Spring by Walter Borneman is terrific. Focuses on the first six months of 1775, filled with wonderful minutiae about the run up to Lexington-Concord, April 19th itself, and through Bunker Hill. Even-handed too.

Charles Murray

@kuan_yih Read actual Harpending technical articles and The 10,000 Year Explosion (with Cochran). Also read Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance. Then tell me Reich didn't caricature their work.

Charles Murray

A Personal Odyssey (Thomas Sowell's autobiography), focusing on his coming of age. https://t.co/Coe1S1O7wW

Charles Murray

Also up at the AEI website is the text of my review (in Claremont Review) of Jascha Mounk's "The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure." https://t.co/u1fRRZca2E

Charles Murray

If you need distraction from the endless grim news, I've got a suggestion: Stephen Fry's trilogy retelling the great Greek myths--Mythos, Heroes, and Troy. I just discovered it, and am now listening to him read Troy from Audible. It's wonderful.