Books
The Rediscovery of Character
– James Q. Wilson, The Public Interest, Fall 1985.Excerpt: Charles Murray, whose 1984 book, Losing Ground, has done so much to focus attention on the problem of welfare, generally endorses the economic explanation for the decline of… More
Welfare and the Family: The American Experience
– Journal of Labor Economics, January 1993.Charles Murray and the Underclass: The Developing Debate
– Ruth Lister, ed., IEA Health and Welfare Unit in association with The Sunday Times London, 1996.Excerpt: IN 1989 Charles Murray visited Britain in search of the ‘underclass’, courtesy of The Sunday Times. Four years later he returned to warn that the crisis of the ‘underclass’… More
Keeping Priorities Straight on Welfare Reform
– Society, August 1996.Excerpt: In April 1995 I was asked to testify before the Senate Finance Committee on the welfare reform bill then under discussion. As I write (mid-November 1995), the Senate and House… More
Family Formation
– In Rebecca Blank and Ron Haskins, eds., New World of Welfare Reform. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2001.The Fathers Are Still Missing
– Washington Post, October 30, 2001.Excerpt: “Honey, I’m Home” was the cheery title of the Urban Institute Study. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities titled its study with the stodgier, “Declining Share of… More
The Great Divorce by David Brooks
– David Brooks, New York Times, January 30, 2012.Excerpt: I’ll be shocked if there’s another book this year as important as Charles Murray’s Coming Apart. I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes… More
Mind the Gap by Yuval Levin
– Yuval Levin, Weekly Standard, March 19, 2012.Excerpt: Charles Murray’s profound and important new book has, for the most part, been received as merely the latest volley in the inequality debates. Its champions have tended to praise… More
American Caste
– Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal, Spring 2012.Excerpt: When Charles Murray’s best-selling Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 appeared a few months ago, the book’s fictional working-class neighborhood, Fishtown,… More
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010
– (New York: Crown Forum, 2012.)Summary from Publisher: In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way… More
Kids Today
– Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2015.Excerpt: My takeaway from all this was expressed in the closing chapter of my own work on Putnam’s topic, Coming Apart (2012). Very briefly, I don’t think America’s civic culture will… More
Essays
The Rediscovery of Character
– James Q. Wilson, The Public Interest, Fall 1985.Excerpt: Charles Murray, whose 1984 book, Losing Ground, has done so much to focus attention on the problem of welfare, generally endorses the economic explanation for the decline of… More
Welfare and the Family: The American Experience
– Journal of Labor Economics, January 1993.Charles Murray and the Underclass: The Developing Debate
– Ruth Lister, ed., IEA Health and Welfare Unit in association with The Sunday Times London, 1996.Excerpt: IN 1989 Charles Murray visited Britain in search of the ‘underclass’, courtesy of The Sunday Times. Four years later he returned to warn that the crisis of the ‘underclass’… More
Keeping Priorities Straight on Welfare Reform
– Society, August 1996.Excerpt: In April 1995 I was asked to testify before the Senate Finance Committee on the welfare reform bill then under discussion. As I write (mid-November 1995), the Senate and House… More
Family Formation
– In Rebecca Blank and Ron Haskins, eds., New World of Welfare Reform. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2001.The Fathers Are Still Missing
– Washington Post, October 30, 2001.Excerpt: “Honey, I’m Home” was the cheery title of the Urban Institute Study. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities titled its study with the stodgier, “Declining Share of… More
The Great Divorce by David Brooks
– David Brooks, New York Times, January 30, 2012.Excerpt: I’ll be shocked if there’s another book this year as important as Charles Murray’s Coming Apart. I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes… More
Mind the Gap by Yuval Levin
– Yuval Levin, Weekly Standard, March 19, 2012.Excerpt: Charles Murray’s profound and important new book has, for the most part, been received as merely the latest volley in the inequality debates. Its champions have tended to praise… More
American Caste
– Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal, Spring 2012.Excerpt: When Charles Murray’s best-selling Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 appeared a few months ago, the book’s fictional working-class neighborhood, Fishtown,… More
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010
– (New York: Crown Forum, 2012.)Summary from Publisher: In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way… More
Kids Today
– Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2015.Excerpt: My takeaway from all this was expressed in the closing chapter of my own work on Putnam’s topic, Coming Apart (2012). Very briefly, I don’t think America’s civic culture will… More
Commentary
The Rediscovery of Character
– James Q. Wilson, The Public Interest, Fall 1985.Excerpt: Charles Murray, whose 1984 book, Losing Ground, has done so much to focus attention on the problem of welfare, generally endorses the economic explanation for the decline of… More
Welfare and the Family: The American Experience
– Journal of Labor Economics, January 1993.Charles Murray and the Underclass: The Developing Debate
– Ruth Lister, ed., IEA Health and Welfare Unit in association with The Sunday Times London, 1996.Excerpt: IN 1989 Charles Murray visited Britain in search of the ‘underclass’, courtesy of The Sunday Times. Four years later he returned to warn that the crisis of the ‘underclass’… More
Keeping Priorities Straight on Welfare Reform
– Society, August 1996.Excerpt: In April 1995 I was asked to testify before the Senate Finance Committee on the welfare reform bill then under discussion. As I write (mid-November 1995), the Senate and House… More
Family Formation
– In Rebecca Blank and Ron Haskins, eds., New World of Welfare Reform. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2001.The Fathers Are Still Missing
– Washington Post, October 30, 2001.Excerpt: “Honey, I’m Home” was the cheery title of the Urban Institute Study. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities titled its study with the stodgier, “Declining Share of… More
The Great Divorce by David Brooks
– David Brooks, New York Times, January 30, 2012.Excerpt: I’ll be shocked if there’s another book this year as important as Charles Murray’s Coming Apart. I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes… More
Mind the Gap by Yuval Levin
– Yuval Levin, Weekly Standard, March 19, 2012.Excerpt: Charles Murray’s profound and important new book has, for the most part, been received as merely the latest volley in the inequality debates. Its champions have tended to praise… More
American Caste
– Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal, Spring 2012.Excerpt: When Charles Murray’s best-selling Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 appeared a few months ago, the book’s fictional working-class neighborhood, Fishtown,… More
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010
– (New York: Crown Forum, 2012.)Summary from Publisher: In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way… More
Kids Today
– Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2015.Excerpt: My takeaway from all this was expressed in the closing chapter of my own work on Putnam’s topic, Coming Apart (2012). Very briefly, I don’t think America’s civic culture will… More
Multimedia
The Rediscovery of Character
– James Q. Wilson, The Public Interest, Fall 1985.Excerpt: Charles Murray, whose 1984 book, Losing Ground, has done so much to focus attention on the problem of welfare, generally endorses the economic explanation for the decline of… More
Welfare and the Family: The American Experience
– Journal of Labor Economics, January 1993.Charles Murray and the Underclass: The Developing Debate
– Ruth Lister, ed., IEA Health and Welfare Unit in association with The Sunday Times London, 1996.Excerpt: IN 1989 Charles Murray visited Britain in search of the ‘underclass’, courtesy of The Sunday Times. Four years later he returned to warn that the crisis of the ‘underclass’… More
Keeping Priorities Straight on Welfare Reform
– Society, August 1996.Excerpt: In April 1995 I was asked to testify before the Senate Finance Committee on the welfare reform bill then under discussion. As I write (mid-November 1995), the Senate and House… More
Family Formation
– In Rebecca Blank and Ron Haskins, eds., New World of Welfare Reform. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2001.The Fathers Are Still Missing
– Washington Post, October 30, 2001.Excerpt: “Honey, I’m Home” was the cheery title of the Urban Institute Study. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities titled its study with the stodgier, “Declining Share of… More
The Great Divorce by David Brooks
– David Brooks, New York Times, January 30, 2012.Excerpt: I’ll be shocked if there’s another book this year as important as Charles Murray’s Coming Apart. I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes… More
Mind the Gap by Yuval Levin
– Yuval Levin, Weekly Standard, March 19, 2012.Excerpt: Charles Murray’s profound and important new book has, for the most part, been received as merely the latest volley in the inequality debates. Its champions have tended to praise… More
American Caste
– Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal, Spring 2012.Excerpt: When Charles Murray’s best-selling Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 appeared a few months ago, the book’s fictional working-class neighborhood, Fishtown,… More
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010
– (New York: Crown Forum, 2012.)Summary from Publisher: In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way… More
Kids Today
– Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2015.Excerpt: My takeaway from all this was expressed in the closing chapter of my own work on Putnam’s topic, Coming Apart (2012). Very briefly, I don’t think America’s civic culture will… More
Teaching
The Rediscovery of Character
– James Q. Wilson, The Public Interest, Fall 1985.Excerpt: Charles Murray, whose 1984 book, Losing Ground, has done so much to focus attention on the problem of welfare, generally endorses the economic explanation for the decline of… More
Welfare and the Family: The American Experience
– Journal of Labor Economics, January 1993.Charles Murray and the Underclass: The Developing Debate
– Ruth Lister, ed., IEA Health and Welfare Unit in association with The Sunday Times London, 1996.Excerpt: IN 1989 Charles Murray visited Britain in search of the ‘underclass’, courtesy of The Sunday Times. Four years later he returned to warn that the crisis of the ‘underclass’… More
Keeping Priorities Straight on Welfare Reform
– Society, August 1996.Excerpt: In April 1995 I was asked to testify before the Senate Finance Committee on the welfare reform bill then under discussion. As I write (mid-November 1995), the Senate and House… More
Family Formation
– In Rebecca Blank and Ron Haskins, eds., New World of Welfare Reform. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2001.The Fathers Are Still Missing
– Washington Post, October 30, 2001.Excerpt: “Honey, I’m Home” was the cheery title of the Urban Institute Study. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities titled its study with the stodgier, “Declining Share of… More
The Great Divorce by David Brooks
– David Brooks, New York Times, January 30, 2012.Excerpt: I’ll be shocked if there’s another book this year as important as Charles Murray’s Coming Apart. I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes… More
Mind the Gap by Yuval Levin
– Yuval Levin, Weekly Standard, March 19, 2012.Excerpt: Charles Murray’s profound and important new book has, for the most part, been received as merely the latest volley in the inequality debates. Its champions have tended to praise… More
American Caste
– Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal, Spring 2012.Excerpt: When Charles Murray’s best-selling Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 appeared a few months ago, the book’s fictional working-class neighborhood, Fishtown,… More
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010
– (New York: Crown Forum, 2012.)Summary from Publisher: In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way… More
Kids Today
– Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2015.Excerpt: My takeaway from all this was expressed in the closing chapter of my own work on Putnam’s topic, Coming Apart (2012). Very briefly, I don’t think America’s civic culture will… More