Tag: Limited Government

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Books

In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government

– (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.)
Summary from Publisher: “What a government must do,” Charles Murray says, “is leave people alone.” No one who reads this clear, energetic work will come away with previous… More

Three Broken Compacts

– Wall Street Journal, December 23, 1997.
Excerpt: The received Republican wisdom now proclaims that Americans don’t hate the federal government after all. Most Americans like the federal government. Republicans must let the… More

Curing American Sclerosis

– Lecture, Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society, April 29, 2015. Reprinted in The New Criterion, June 2015.
Excerpt: I am a little wary about receiving an award named for Edmund Burke two weeks before the publication of a book in which I advocate massive, systematic civil disobedience. I am not… More

Charles Murray and Jonah Goldberg on Civil Disobedience

– Video, American Enterprise Institute, May 11, 2015.
Summary: The American ideal of limited government is on life support. Is it time for civil disobedience? Charles Murray says yes. Murray has been writing on government overreach for more… More

Regulation Run Amok—And How to Fight Back

– Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2015.
Excerpt: America is no longer the land of the free. We are still free in the sense that Norwegians, Germans and Italians are free. But that’s not what Americans used to mean by freedom.… More

How Government Got So Big

– Video, Opinion Journal, Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2015.
American Enterprise Institute Scholar Charles Murray on his new book, By the People, and the policies that led to the growth of bureaucracy.

By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

– (New York: Crown Forum, 2015.)
Summary from the Publisher: American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our… More

After Words with Charles Murray

– Video, BookTV, C-SPAN, June 11, 2015.
Summary: Charles Murray talked about his book By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission, in which he argues that it is now possible to roll back the power of the federal… More

Our Corrupt Government by Christopher DeMuth

– Christopher DeMuth, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2015.
Excerpt: Charles Murray’s By the People takes Madisonian decline in a different direction. Its title, of course, is from the poetic invocation of republican government at the crescendo of… More

The Regulators’ Yoke

– National Review, November 9, 2015.
Excerpt: Earlier this year, I published a book called “By the People” that laid out a plan for systematic civil disobedience of stupid and pointless regulations. It is a subversive… 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

In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government

– (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.)
Summary from Publisher: “What a government must do,” Charles Murray says, “is leave people alone.” No one who reads this clear, energetic work will come away with previous… More

Three Broken Compacts

– Wall Street Journal, December 23, 1997.
Excerpt: The received Republican wisdom now proclaims that Americans don’t hate the federal government after all. Most Americans like the federal government. Republicans must let the… More

Curing American Sclerosis

– Lecture, Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society, April 29, 2015. Reprinted in The New Criterion, June 2015.
Excerpt: I am a little wary about receiving an award named for Edmund Burke two weeks before the publication of a book in which I advocate massive, systematic civil disobedience. I am not… More

Charles Murray and Jonah Goldberg on Civil Disobedience

– Video, American Enterprise Institute, May 11, 2015.
Summary: The American ideal of limited government is on life support. Is it time for civil disobedience? Charles Murray says yes. Murray has been writing on government overreach for more… More

Regulation Run Amok—And How to Fight Back

– Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2015.
Excerpt: America is no longer the land of the free. We are still free in the sense that Norwegians, Germans and Italians are free. But that’s not what Americans used to mean by freedom.… More

How Government Got So Big

– Video, Opinion Journal, Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2015.
American Enterprise Institute Scholar Charles Murray on his new book, By the People, and the policies that led to the growth of bureaucracy.

By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

– (New York: Crown Forum, 2015.)
Summary from the Publisher: American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our… More

After Words with Charles Murray

– Video, BookTV, C-SPAN, June 11, 2015.
Summary: Charles Murray talked about his book By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission, in which he argues that it is now possible to roll back the power of the federal… More

Our Corrupt Government by Christopher DeMuth

– Christopher DeMuth, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2015.
Excerpt: Charles Murray’s By the People takes Madisonian decline in a different direction. Its title, of course, is from the poetic invocation of republican government at the crescendo of… More

The Regulators’ Yoke

– National Review, November 9, 2015.
Excerpt: Earlier this year, I published a book called “By the People” that laid out a plan for systematic civil disobedience of stupid and pointless regulations. It is a subversive… 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

In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government

– (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.)
Summary from Publisher: “What a government must do,” Charles Murray says, “is leave people alone.” No one who reads this clear, energetic work will come away with previous… More

Three Broken Compacts

– Wall Street Journal, December 23, 1997.
Excerpt: The received Republican wisdom now proclaims that Americans don’t hate the federal government after all. Most Americans like the federal government. Republicans must let the… More

Curing American Sclerosis

– Lecture, Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society, April 29, 2015. Reprinted in The New Criterion, June 2015.
Excerpt: I am a little wary about receiving an award named for Edmund Burke two weeks before the publication of a book in which I advocate massive, systematic civil disobedience. I am not… More

Charles Murray and Jonah Goldberg on Civil Disobedience

– Video, American Enterprise Institute, May 11, 2015.
Summary: The American ideal of limited government is on life support. Is it time for civil disobedience? Charles Murray says yes. Murray has been writing on government overreach for more… More

Regulation Run Amok—And How to Fight Back

– Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2015.
Excerpt: America is no longer the land of the free. We are still free in the sense that Norwegians, Germans and Italians are free. But that’s not what Americans used to mean by freedom.… More

How Government Got So Big

– Video, Opinion Journal, Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2015.
American Enterprise Institute Scholar Charles Murray on his new book, By the People, and the policies that led to the growth of bureaucracy.

By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

– (New York: Crown Forum, 2015.)
Summary from the Publisher: American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our… More

After Words with Charles Murray

– Video, BookTV, C-SPAN, June 11, 2015.
Summary: Charles Murray talked about his book By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission, in which he argues that it is now possible to roll back the power of the federal… More

Our Corrupt Government by Christopher DeMuth

– Christopher DeMuth, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2015.
Excerpt: Charles Murray’s By the People takes Madisonian decline in a different direction. Its title, of course, is from the poetic invocation of republican government at the crescendo of… More

The Regulators’ Yoke

– National Review, November 9, 2015.
Excerpt: Earlier this year, I published a book called “By the People” that laid out a plan for systematic civil disobedience of stupid and pointless regulations. It is a subversive… 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

In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government

– (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.)
Summary from Publisher: “What a government must do,” Charles Murray says, “is leave people alone.” No one who reads this clear, energetic work will come away with previous… More

Three Broken Compacts

– Wall Street Journal, December 23, 1997.
Excerpt: The received Republican wisdom now proclaims that Americans don’t hate the federal government after all. Most Americans like the federal government. Republicans must let the… More

Curing American Sclerosis

– Lecture, Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society, April 29, 2015. Reprinted in The New Criterion, June 2015.
Excerpt: I am a little wary about receiving an award named for Edmund Burke two weeks before the publication of a book in which I advocate massive, systematic civil disobedience. I am not… More

Charles Murray and Jonah Goldberg on Civil Disobedience

– Video, American Enterprise Institute, May 11, 2015.
Summary: The American ideal of limited government is on life support. Is it time for civil disobedience? Charles Murray says yes. Murray has been writing on government overreach for more… More

Regulation Run Amok—And How to Fight Back

– Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2015.
Excerpt: America is no longer the land of the free. We are still free in the sense that Norwegians, Germans and Italians are free. But that’s not what Americans used to mean by freedom.… More

How Government Got So Big

– Video, Opinion Journal, Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2015.
American Enterprise Institute Scholar Charles Murray on his new book, By the People, and the policies that led to the growth of bureaucracy.

By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

– (New York: Crown Forum, 2015.)
Summary from the Publisher: American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our… More

After Words with Charles Murray

– Video, BookTV, C-SPAN, June 11, 2015.
Summary: Charles Murray talked about his book By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission, in which he argues that it is now possible to roll back the power of the federal… More

Our Corrupt Government by Christopher DeMuth

– Christopher DeMuth, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2015.
Excerpt: Charles Murray’s By the People takes Madisonian decline in a different direction. Its title, of course, is from the poetic invocation of republican government at the crescendo of… More

The Regulators’ Yoke

– National Review, November 9, 2015.
Excerpt: Earlier this year, I published a book called “By the People” that laid out a plan for systematic civil disobedience of stupid and pointless regulations. It is a subversive… 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

In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government

– (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.)
Summary from Publisher: “What a government must do,” Charles Murray says, “is leave people alone.” No one who reads this clear, energetic work will come away with previous… More

Three Broken Compacts

– Wall Street Journal, December 23, 1997.
Excerpt: The received Republican wisdom now proclaims that Americans don’t hate the federal government after all. Most Americans like the federal government. Republicans must let the… More

Curing American Sclerosis

– Lecture, Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society, April 29, 2015. Reprinted in The New Criterion, June 2015.
Excerpt: I am a little wary about receiving an award named for Edmund Burke two weeks before the publication of a book in which I advocate massive, systematic civil disobedience. I am not… More

Charles Murray and Jonah Goldberg on Civil Disobedience

– Video, American Enterprise Institute, May 11, 2015.
Summary: The American ideal of limited government is on life support. Is it time for civil disobedience? Charles Murray says yes. Murray has been writing on government overreach for more… More

Regulation Run Amok—And How to Fight Back

– Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2015.
Excerpt: America is no longer the land of the free. We are still free in the sense that Norwegians, Germans and Italians are free. But that’s not what Americans used to mean by freedom.… More

How Government Got So Big

– Video, Opinion Journal, Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2015.
American Enterprise Institute Scholar Charles Murray on his new book, By the People, and the policies that led to the growth of bureaucracy.

By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

– (New York: Crown Forum, 2015.)
Summary from the Publisher: American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our… More

After Words with Charles Murray

– Video, BookTV, C-SPAN, June 11, 2015.
Summary: Charles Murray talked about his book By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission, in which he argues that it is now possible to roll back the power of the federal… More

Our Corrupt Government by Christopher DeMuth

– Christopher DeMuth, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2015.
Excerpt: Charles Murray’s By the People takes Madisonian decline in a different direction. Its title, of course, is from the poetic invocation of republican government at the crescendo of… More

The Regulators’ Yoke

– National Review, November 9, 2015.
Excerpt: Earlier this year, I published a book called “By the People” that laid out a plan for systematic civil disobedience of stupid and pointless regulations. It is a subversive… 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