Charles Murray
Author · 14 books
Charles Alan Murray is an American libertarian conservative political scientist, author, and columnist. His book Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980 (1984), which discussed the American welfare system, was widely read and discussed, and influenced subsequent government policy. He became well-known for his controversial book The Bell Curve (1994), written with Richard Herrnstein, in which he argues that intelligence is a better predictor than parental socio-economic status or education level of many individual outcomes including income, job performance, pregnancy out of wedlock, and crime, and that social welfare programs and education efforts to improve social outcomes for the disadvantaged are largely wasted.
Books
Coming Apart
The State of White America, 1960-2010
2012
Losing Ground
American Social Policy, 1950-1980
1983
Charles Murray and the Underclass
The Developing Debate
1996
The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead
Dos and Don'ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life
2014
What It Means to Be a Libertarian
1996
Real Education
Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
2008
Facing Reality
Two Truths about Race in America
2021
In Our Hands
A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
2006
By the People
Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission
2015
Pain & Renewal
A Poetry Anthology
2020
Human Accomplishment
The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950
2004
Human Diversity
The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
2020
In Pursuit
Of Happiness and Good Government
1988
Apollo
The Race To The Moon
1989
