Articles by Charles Murray
Diversity and Its Limits
The crisis of American democracy demands a clear-eyed understanding of the ways in which differences in ethnic groups and some sources of political polarization are never going to be resolved.
The Immortal Sowell
Sowell’s analyses of social and political issues are more sophisticated and acute than those of just about everyone who writes on the same topics today.
Meritocracy’s Cost
Meritocracy conceals elite disdain for the lives of ordinary Americans.
Comfortably Numb
The only thing more frightening than annihilation is the possibility that our decadent society could coast on forever.
Kids Today
A review of Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, by Robert D. Putnam
The Smart Set
Charles Murray reviews two books about meritocracy.
One-Dimensional Man
A review of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, by David Brooks
Who is Ayn Rand?
A review of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jennifer Burns
and Ayn Rand and the World She Made, by Anne C. Heller