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The Mismeasure of Asians: The Definitive Refutation to the Conjectures of the Bell Curve

notedscholar wrote 1 day ago: Attentive readers will recall a post I wrote awhile back introducing the issues of The Bell Curve. I … more →

Tags: brain studies, anime, authentic chinese good, China, Chinese calligraphy, chinese food, Daniel Johnston, Desi, Dragon Ball

The Mismeasure of Asians: A Prelude1 comment

notedscholar wrote 2 days ago: Bell Curves: history, cultural context The Bell Curve, written by Dick Hernstein and Chuck Murray, i … more →

Tags: brain studies, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, The Bell Curve, Neil Postman, Asians, g.e. moore shift, ge moore shift

"The Aptocrats" Is Not A Film About A Dirty Joke

aroundthesphere wrote 1 week ago: Walter Kirn’s piece in the NYT: I call this group of contemporary strivers — a group that has … more →

Tags: Education, American Enterprise Institute, conor friedersdorf, Freddie, National Review, New York Times, Ramesh Ponnuru, Robert VerBruggen, The Atlantic

Tough on Replicating Middle Class Homes for the Poor

Milton Gaither wrote 1 month ago: This post reviews Paul Tough, Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and … more →

Tags: Family Life, public school and homeschool partnerships, Sociology, Annette Lareau, Baby College, Christopher Jencks, "Coleman Report", Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Equality of Educational Opportunity

How socialism undermines family, community and the dignity of labor4 comments

Wintery Knight wrote 2 months ago: UPDATE: Welcome visitors from Free Canuckistan! Thanks for the link, Binks! I saw this amazing post … more →

Tags: Commentary, Children, Choice, Community, Father, Government, husband, Life, Marriage

Charles Murray responds to Greg

matthewladner wrote 2 months ago: (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Charles Murray responds to Greg’s critique of his Kristol lectu … more →

Tags: Greg Forster

The Larger Case Against Socialism8 comments

Greg Forster wrote 2 months ago: (Guest post by Greg Forster) Readers of JPGB who have followed our occasional coverage of the resur … more →

Tags: Economics, Greg Forster, Irving Kristol lecture

Real Education by Charles Murray

wilsonknut wrote 3 months ago: Charles Murray, social scientist extraordinaire, describes the problems with America’s educati … more →

Tags: Politics, Culture, Teaching, Education, George W. Bush, College

Europe Syndrome in America?

bloggerpbm wrote 3 months ago: Last month Charles Murray gave a speech to the American Enterprise Institute titled:    … more →

Tags: News, History, Economics, Socialism, Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture, Ronald Reagan, Europe Syndrome, American Enterprise Institute

Why I am not an American

Dan wrote 3 months ago: (H/T Matthew Yglesias) Damon Linker has a post up about Charles Murray’s definition of happine … more →

Tags: USA, US Politics, Healthcare, Matthew Yglesias, Barack Obama, Damon Linker, American exceptionalism

Life is an American concept

blogstra wrote 3 months ago: Charles Murray thinks that Europeans, with their universal health insurance, child care, affordable … more →

Tags: Conservatives, American, Life

Charles Murray Lecture At AEI: The Happiness Of People

chr1 wrote 4 months ago: Full transcribed lecture here. So are we drifting to a more “European” lifestyle in Amer … more →

Tags: Public Debate, Philosophy, communism, Politics, media, Current Events, Economics, Europe, libertarianism

American Exceptionalism versus the Europe Syndrome

Rob wrote 4 months ago: Charles Murray is no stranger to controversy… in the 1980s he wrote Losing Ground, an indictme … more →

Tags: Ruminations, Politics, Science, American exceptionalism, Europe Syndrome

Conservative Thinking3 comments

justabovesunset wrote 4 months ago: It was just one of those email discussions with Rick, the News Guy in Atlanta, about people whom we  … more →

Tags: Conservative Thought, The Conservative-Liberal Divide, Conservative Values, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), America Becoming French, Soccer, The Bell Curve, America is Becoming Europe

[Update: 20 January 2009] China's "SAT:" Much harder than ours2 comments

Lover of Wisdom wrote 6 months ago: I found a Slate article on China’s university entrance exam. This exam probably does a really … more →

Tags: Education, IQ, Politics, SAT, University, Entrance Exams, China

Charles Murray Wants to Discredit the BA1 comment

Mike Gibson wrote 6 months ago: So he says in the NYTimes.  He believes the supply of education in the liberal arts is too high beca … more →

Tags: Signaling Theory of Education

The Female Orgasm and the Embarrassment that is the Diamondback4 comments

Nathan P. Origer wrote 7 months ago: On Monday, 25 November, our campus’s venerable Terps for Choice, adding to its support of myth … more →

Tags: University of Maryland, Higher Education, Culture, The Diamondback, FEMALE ORGASM

Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray - review

probaway wrote 8 months ago: Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 by Charle … more →

Tags: Psychology, Reviews, Human Accomplishment, Rating success

More on Murray

Connor Mendenhall wrote 9 months ago: My recent post on student loans and the bailout bill included a passage by Charles Murray, normal cu … more →

Tags: media, Economics, Justyn Dillingham, Human Capital, Cato Unbound, Commentary, Higher Education, Investment


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