There is a crusade under way to abolish welfare. The New York Times, a self-appointed cheerleader, reported April 22 that politicians are clambering onto this bandwagon. Only a decade ago, it noted, "an obscure intellectual" named Charles Murray first floated the "radical" idea. Murray, now with the American Enterprise Institute,...
Things haven't been all bad this past month. In fact, there have been a few deeply gratifying moments. Take, for example, the well-deserved trashing Charles Murray has taken for his racist throwback tome, The Bell Curve. (Murray, of Losing Ground fame, co-authored the book with Richard Herrnstein, who died before...
Most often these days it seems, that, when people hear about some new example of bureaucratic ineptitude, they say to themselves or--to anyone who is listening--"That just shows government doesn't work." There are also those who, like Charles Murray in his recent book What It Means to Be...
The first simple truth: Half of all children are below average in intelligence, and our ability to improve the academic accomplishment of students in the lower half of the distribution of intelligence is severely limited. This is not to say that American public schools cannot be improved. Many of them,...
Remember The Bell Curve? Several years ago this poisonous book argued that intelligence was determined genetically, and that nature, not nurture or racism, made Black Americans perform poorly in school and on the job. Authors Richard Herrenstein and Charles Murray refused to let scholars see the research which allegedly "proved...
News Advisory: What's The Big Idea? True Blue vs. Deep Red: The Ideas That Move American Politics Noted Writers, Thinkers to Discuss the Left-Right Divide WHO: Michael Barone, U.S. News and World Report David Brooks, The New York Times Tammy Bruce, "Tammy Bruce Show" Francis Fukuyama, The Johns Hopkins University...
Most firms wouldn't think of hiring workers who don't have a college degree. But degrees say very little about the person they're hiring, argues Charles Murray, a scholar at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute. The Wall Street Journal published For Most People, College Is a Waste...
