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Charles Murray
@charlesmurray
Husband, father, social scientist, writer, Madisonian. Or maybe right-wing ideologue, pseudoscientist, evil. Opinions differ.
Burkittsville, MD
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    Charles Murray
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    Sep 28, 2025
    I wish more people had read this book. I wish it had been reviewed by outlets that had previously reviewed my books. I wish it had been discussed by people who previously discussed my books. But it appeared in 2021. Not a year in which facing reality was in vogue.
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    CharlesMurrayQuotes
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    Sep 28, 2025
    “[It’s]a paradox: I want America to return to the ideal of treating people as individuals, so I have to write a book that treats Americans as groups. But there’s no way around it.”
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    Charles Murray
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    Aug 7, 2025
    I would think that the minimum age for getting this joke is around 80.
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    Clinton
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    Dec 22, 2024
    "Look, It's Alice Kramden."
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    Charles Murray
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    Oct 16, 2025
    I am persuaded that feminization is the most portentous trend in American culture, and this is an excellent explanation of why. It is also wonderfully written. E.g., "Women can sue their bosses for running a workplace that feels like a fraternity house, but men can’t sue when
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    Helen Andrews
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    Oct 16, 2025
    How I came to see the “Great Feminization” as the most significant event of our century—and a potential threat to civilization. compactmag.com/article/the-gr…
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    Charles Murray
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    Oct 14, 2025
    The 1850 Census shows a white literacy rate of 89.8%
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    WeightDecayWarlord
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    Oct 14, 2025
    Replying to @charlesmurray
    Well yeah, when only the top 10% can read, they tend to write pretty well
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    Charles Murray
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    Aug 10, 2025
    BREAKING: Not a single solitary incoming freshman self-identified as White in the Harvard Class of 2028. Or maybe I'm missing something.
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    Charles Murray
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    Nov 23, 2024
    1/2 Advice for small colleges with good-but-not-top-tier prestige: The first among you to announce that henceforth admissions will be based exclusively on test scores will immediately become a safety application for 1500-1600 SAT students who are subsequently turned down
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    Charles Murray
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    Feb 17, 2025
    Never has my opinion of someone changed so radically and irrevocably.
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    Feb 17, 2025
    Hollywood actor Tom Hanks appears on SNL as a racist Trump supporter while wearing a MAGA hat, and hesitating to shake a black man's hand. They're still playing the same card. It's honestly tiresome.
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    Charles Murray
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    Dec 10, 2023
    I've got a sure-fire way for the presidents of Harvard & MIT to prove they're not hypocritical about their new-found allegiance to free speech. Invite me to give a lecture on race and sex differences, using material from Human Diversity. I'm happy to do them pro bono. Albeit with
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    Charles Murray
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    Jul 29, 2025
    A curious phenomenon of the last decade has been the willingness of corporations to air commercials that portray whites and especially white males as clumsy and clueless, knowing that they must irritate their white and especially white male potential customers. If the sale of
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    Charles Murray
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    Nov 8, 2025
    One morning around four or five years ago, I got a phone call from James Watson. I was startled. I had met him only once, at a conference at Cold Spring Harbor in the mid-1990s and we hadn't been in touch since. I can remember few details, but I do remember that the call lasted
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    Charles Murray
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    May 27, 2025
    Prompted by the hand-wringing over the consequences of reducing foreign students at Harvard, I looked through the Harvard freshman register for my class (1965). The class arriving in the fall of 1961 was 98.4 percent American.
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    Charles Murray
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    Sep 6, 2017
    This is sad: I will be unable to walk across Harvard Yard tomorrow, on paths I have walked thousands of times. Need a police escort.
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    Charles Murray
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    Oct 5, 2025
    Most non-STEM majors at elite universities have no idea what serious intellectual demands feel like. They're smart with words. Being smart with math is a different ballgame. I wish all of them could have the experience I had in grad school at MIT, when I had to realize how dumb I
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    Justin Skycak
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    Oct 5, 2025
    If you want to major in math at an elite university, but all the knowledge you show up with is high school math and AP Calculus, and you’re not a genius, then you’re probably going to get your ass handed to you. High school math – even the “honors” track, even getting a 5 on the
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    Charles Murray
    @charlesmurray
    Nov 17, 2019
    My daughter's immigrant friend, asked during her dissertation defense why she had not dealt with the Marxist interpretation of her topic: "I grew up in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. I do not indulge in recreational Marxism." quillette.com/2019/11/16/tho…
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