Books
The Fairness Delusion
– American Spectator, October 1984.Excerpt: Democrats have been bludgeoning the Reagan Administration with “the fairness issue” since 1981. The fairness issue covers a variety of sins, generally falling under the… More
The New Racism
– The New Republic, December 31, 1984.The British Underclass
– The Public Interest, Spring 1990.Excerpt: IS THE UNDERCLASS an American phenomenon? It often seems so. Reports about Western Europe’s social democracies typically portray societies in which the low-income class is… More
The Next British Revolution
– The Public Interest, Winter 1995.Excerpt: IN 1989, the London Sunday Times asked me to explore whether England was developing an American-style underclass. I reported then that England seemed to be replaying the American… More
Reducing Poverty and Reducing the Underclass: Different Problems, Different Solutions
– In Michael R. Darby, ed., Reducing Poverty in America. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1996.A Stroll Through the Income Spectrum
– American Enterprise, July/August 1996.Excerpt: The link between income and standard of living used to be simple: People who made more money lived better. They drove a Buick, not a Chevy. They moved from an upstairs flat to a… More
Income Inequality and IQ
– (Washington: AEI Press, 1998.)Summary from Publisher: What causes income inequality? The usual answers are economic and sociological. Capitalism systematically generates unequal economic rewards. Social class… More
The Underclass Revisited
– (Washington: AEI Press, 1999.)Excerpt: No one talks much about the underclass anymore, and apparently for good reason. The welfare rolls are plunging. Crime has been falling for several years. The labor market is so… More
IQ, Success in Life, and Inequality: The Ambiguous Merits of Meritocracy
– In Finis Welch, ed., The Causes and Consequences of Increasing Inequality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.Family Decay Hurts Equality
– American Enterprise, April/May 2002.Excerpt: Americans hate the idea of social classes. Accordingly, we try to pretend we don’t have any. Up to 80 percent of survey respondents in our country will tell the interview… More
IQ and Income Inequality in a Sample of Sibling Pairs from Advantaged Family Backgrounds
– The American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, May 2002.Poverty and Marriage, Inequality and Brains
– Pathways, Winter 2008.Excerpt: It may be said with only a little exaggeration that policy analysts are happy describing the causes of problems while ignoring their solution, and politicians are happy proposing… 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
America Against Itself
– Interview by Sean Collins, Spiked Review, August 2016.Excerpt: With the publication in 2012 of Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, political scientist Charles Murray – celebrated and denigrated in equal measure for his… More
Essays
The Fairness Delusion
– American Spectator, October 1984.Excerpt: Democrats have been bludgeoning the Reagan Administration with “the fairness issue” since 1981. The fairness issue covers a variety of sins, generally falling under the… More
The New Racism
– The New Republic, December 31, 1984.The British Underclass
– The Public Interest, Spring 1990.Excerpt: IS THE UNDERCLASS an American phenomenon? It often seems so. Reports about Western Europe’s social democracies typically portray societies in which the low-income class is… More
The Next British Revolution
– The Public Interest, Winter 1995.Excerpt: IN 1989, the London Sunday Times asked me to explore whether England was developing an American-style underclass. I reported then that England seemed to be replaying the American… More
Reducing Poverty and Reducing the Underclass: Different Problems, Different Solutions
– In Michael R. Darby, ed., Reducing Poverty in America. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1996.A Stroll Through the Income Spectrum
– American Enterprise, July/August 1996.Excerpt: The link between income and standard of living used to be simple: People who made more money lived better. They drove a Buick, not a Chevy. They moved from an upstairs flat to a… More
Income Inequality and IQ
– (Washington: AEI Press, 1998.)Summary from Publisher: What causes income inequality? The usual answers are economic and sociological. Capitalism systematically generates unequal economic rewards. Social class… More
The Underclass Revisited
– (Washington: AEI Press, 1999.)Excerpt: No one talks much about the underclass anymore, and apparently for good reason. The welfare rolls are plunging. Crime has been falling for several years. The labor market is so… More
IQ, Success in Life, and Inequality: The Ambiguous Merits of Meritocracy
– In Finis Welch, ed., The Causes and Consequences of Increasing Inequality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.Family Decay Hurts Equality
– American Enterprise, April/May 2002.Excerpt: Americans hate the idea of social classes. Accordingly, we try to pretend we don’t have any. Up to 80 percent of survey respondents in our country will tell the interview… More
IQ and Income Inequality in a Sample of Sibling Pairs from Advantaged Family Backgrounds
– The American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, May 2002.Poverty and Marriage, Inequality and Brains
– Pathways, Winter 2008.Excerpt: It may be said with only a little exaggeration that policy analysts are happy describing the causes of problems while ignoring their solution, and politicians are happy proposing… 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
America Against Itself
– Interview by Sean Collins, Spiked Review, August 2016.Excerpt: With the publication in 2012 of Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, political scientist Charles Murray – celebrated and denigrated in equal measure for his… More
Commentary
The Fairness Delusion
– American Spectator, October 1984.Excerpt: Democrats have been bludgeoning the Reagan Administration with “the fairness issue” since 1981. The fairness issue covers a variety of sins, generally falling under the… More
The New Racism
– The New Republic, December 31, 1984.The British Underclass
– The Public Interest, Spring 1990.Excerpt: IS THE UNDERCLASS an American phenomenon? It often seems so. Reports about Western Europe’s social democracies typically portray societies in which the low-income class is… More
The Next British Revolution
– The Public Interest, Winter 1995.Excerpt: IN 1989, the London Sunday Times asked me to explore whether England was developing an American-style underclass. I reported then that England seemed to be replaying the American… More
Reducing Poverty and Reducing the Underclass: Different Problems, Different Solutions
– In Michael R. Darby, ed., Reducing Poverty in America. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1996.A Stroll Through the Income Spectrum
– American Enterprise, July/August 1996.Excerpt: The link between income and standard of living used to be simple: People who made more money lived better. They drove a Buick, not a Chevy. They moved from an upstairs flat to a… More
Income Inequality and IQ
– (Washington: AEI Press, 1998.)Summary from Publisher: What causes income inequality? The usual answers are economic and sociological. Capitalism systematically generates unequal economic rewards. Social class… More
The Underclass Revisited
– (Washington: AEI Press, 1999.)Excerpt: No one talks much about the underclass anymore, and apparently for good reason. The welfare rolls are plunging. Crime has been falling for several years. The labor market is so… More
IQ, Success in Life, and Inequality: The Ambiguous Merits of Meritocracy
– In Finis Welch, ed., The Causes and Consequences of Increasing Inequality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.Family Decay Hurts Equality
– American Enterprise, April/May 2002.Excerpt: Americans hate the idea of social classes. Accordingly, we try to pretend we don’t have any. Up to 80 percent of survey respondents in our country will tell the interview… More
IQ and Income Inequality in a Sample of Sibling Pairs from Advantaged Family Backgrounds
– The American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, May 2002.Poverty and Marriage, Inequality and Brains
– Pathways, Winter 2008.Excerpt: It may be said with only a little exaggeration that policy analysts are happy describing the causes of problems while ignoring their solution, and politicians are happy proposing… 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
America Against Itself
– Interview by Sean Collins, Spiked Review, August 2016.Excerpt: With the publication in 2012 of Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, political scientist Charles Murray – celebrated and denigrated in equal measure for his… More
Multimedia
The Fairness Delusion
– American Spectator, October 1984.Excerpt: Democrats have been bludgeoning the Reagan Administration with “the fairness issue” since 1981. The fairness issue covers a variety of sins, generally falling under the… More
The New Racism
– The New Republic, December 31, 1984.The British Underclass
– The Public Interest, Spring 1990.Excerpt: IS THE UNDERCLASS an American phenomenon? It often seems so. Reports about Western Europe’s social democracies typically portray societies in which the low-income class is… More
The Next British Revolution
– The Public Interest, Winter 1995.Excerpt: IN 1989, the London Sunday Times asked me to explore whether England was developing an American-style underclass. I reported then that England seemed to be replaying the American… More
Reducing Poverty and Reducing the Underclass: Different Problems, Different Solutions
– In Michael R. Darby, ed., Reducing Poverty in America. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1996.A Stroll Through the Income Spectrum
– American Enterprise, July/August 1996.Excerpt: The link between income and standard of living used to be simple: People who made more money lived better. They drove a Buick, not a Chevy. They moved from an upstairs flat to a… More
Income Inequality and IQ
– (Washington: AEI Press, 1998.)Summary from Publisher: What causes income inequality? The usual answers are economic and sociological. Capitalism systematically generates unequal economic rewards. Social class… More
The Underclass Revisited
– (Washington: AEI Press, 1999.)Excerpt: No one talks much about the underclass anymore, and apparently for good reason. The welfare rolls are plunging. Crime has been falling for several years. The labor market is so… More
IQ, Success in Life, and Inequality: The Ambiguous Merits of Meritocracy
– In Finis Welch, ed., The Causes and Consequences of Increasing Inequality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.Family Decay Hurts Equality
– American Enterprise, April/May 2002.Excerpt: Americans hate the idea of social classes. Accordingly, we try to pretend we don’t have any. Up to 80 percent of survey respondents in our country will tell the interview… More
IQ and Income Inequality in a Sample of Sibling Pairs from Advantaged Family Backgrounds
– The American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, May 2002.Poverty and Marriage, Inequality and Brains
– Pathways, Winter 2008.Excerpt: It may be said with only a little exaggeration that policy analysts are happy describing the causes of problems while ignoring their solution, and politicians are happy proposing… 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
America Against Itself
– Interview by Sean Collins, Spiked Review, August 2016.Excerpt: With the publication in 2012 of Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, political scientist Charles Murray – celebrated and denigrated in equal measure for his… More
Teaching
The Fairness Delusion
– American Spectator, October 1984.Excerpt: Democrats have been bludgeoning the Reagan Administration with “the fairness issue” since 1981. The fairness issue covers a variety of sins, generally falling under the… More
The New Racism
– The New Republic, December 31, 1984.The British Underclass
– The Public Interest, Spring 1990.Excerpt: IS THE UNDERCLASS an American phenomenon? It often seems so. Reports about Western Europe’s social democracies typically portray societies in which the low-income class is… More
The Next British Revolution
– The Public Interest, Winter 1995.Excerpt: IN 1989, the London Sunday Times asked me to explore whether England was developing an American-style underclass. I reported then that England seemed to be replaying the American… More
Reducing Poverty and Reducing the Underclass: Different Problems, Different Solutions
– In Michael R. Darby, ed., Reducing Poverty in America. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1996.A Stroll Through the Income Spectrum
– American Enterprise, July/August 1996.Excerpt: The link between income and standard of living used to be simple: People who made more money lived better. They drove a Buick, not a Chevy. They moved from an upstairs flat to a… More
Income Inequality and IQ
– (Washington: AEI Press, 1998.)Summary from Publisher: What causes income inequality? The usual answers are economic and sociological. Capitalism systematically generates unequal economic rewards. Social class… More
The Underclass Revisited
– (Washington: AEI Press, 1999.)Excerpt: No one talks much about the underclass anymore, and apparently for good reason. The welfare rolls are plunging. Crime has been falling for several years. The labor market is so… More
IQ, Success in Life, and Inequality: The Ambiguous Merits of Meritocracy
– In Finis Welch, ed., The Causes and Consequences of Increasing Inequality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.Family Decay Hurts Equality
– American Enterprise, April/May 2002.Excerpt: Americans hate the idea of social classes. Accordingly, we try to pretend we don’t have any. Up to 80 percent of survey respondents in our country will tell the interview… More
IQ and Income Inequality in a Sample of Sibling Pairs from Advantaged Family Backgrounds
– The American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, May 2002.Poverty and Marriage, Inequality and Brains
– Pathways, Winter 2008.Excerpt: It may be said with only a little exaggeration that policy analysts are happy describing the causes of problems while ignoring their solution, and politicians are happy proposing… 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
America Against Itself
– Interview by Sean Collins, Spiked Review, August 2016.Excerpt: With the publication in 2012 of Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, political scientist Charles Murray – celebrated and denigrated in equal measure for his… More