Hardly anybody realizes that the first couple of chapters of 'Coming Apart' were basically a recapitulation of the argument in 'The Bell Curve.' That's how little people focused on 'The Bell Curve's' real message. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
When 'The Bell Curve' came out, I'd have lectures with lots of people chanting and picketing with signs, but it was always within the confines of the event and I was eventually able to speak. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
People are starting to notice the great divide. The Tea party sees the aloofness in a political elite that thinks it knows best and… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
I want to keep the government out of the business of giving incentives to have or not have kids, or incentives to marry or… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
You know, there is an image of me out there for which advocacy of a universal basic income is inconsistent. It doesn't fit the… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
White supremacist? Let's see: if you have a guy who was married for 13 years to an Asian woman and who has two lovely… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
When America installs a minimum income, it's going to be doing it in a very different historical context than Switzerland or Sweden or Germany,… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian - or openly committed to any of the great… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
By the end of writing 'Losing Ground,' I realized I was a libertarian. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Don't argue that you can't find a job that pays enough to support yourself. You can. You just can't find a job that will… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Trumpism' is the expression by the white working class of a lot of legitimate grievances that it has with the ruling class. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
“Joan played den mother to the rebirth of American individualism. That she filled that role for so many is why I am grateful that… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
“Four American traits were central to the evolution of that culture: industriousness, egalitarianism, religiosity, and an amalgam of philanthropy and volunteerism that was uniquely… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
“A free society is most threatened not by uses of government that are obviously bad, but by uses of government that seem obviously good.” — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
The people who run the country have enormous influence over the culture, politics, and the economics of the country. And increasingly, they haven't a… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
