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8 Oct, 2008 1:29 pm
Charles Murray has a provocative column summarizing a recent book on why college is overvalued. As
Murray puts it, hardly anyone would think the following is a good system, if designed from scratch: First, we will set ... . Pedro Carneiro is
the first respondent. Unfortunately, I suspect that much of his response is beside the point. From the start, Carneiro characterizes Murray as
having argued that "for most people, completing a BA is a bad investment." But I don't see Murray as making that point ...
13 Aug, 2008 7:07 pm
Both men have written significant-looking books on the state of American education. In today's Wall Street Journal Charles Murray argues "For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time," adapted from his forthcoming Real Education. In the current issue of Policy Review, Stanley Fish
suggests, "Professor, Do Your Job," adapted from his Save the World on Your Own Time. Have a look!
5 Sep, 2008 3:09 pm
The Washington Times has been running a series of excerpts this week from Charles Murray's new book,
Real Education. Today's excerpt is on educating gifted children. I thought...
18 Mar 5:03 pm
Last week I heard Charles Murray speak at the AEI annual dinner and the topic of his remarks was "The
Happiness of the People." I thought it an extraordinarily insightful...
10 Aug 12:01 am
Murray writes: We have exacted costs that are seldom considered but are hugely important. Earlier, I said that the sources of deep
satisfactions are the same for janitors as for CEOs, and I also said that people needed to do important things with their lives. When the government takes the trouble out of being a
spouse and parent, it doesn't affect the sources of deep satisfaction for the CEO. Rather, it makes life difficult for the janitor. A man who is holding down a menial job and thereby
...
12 Aug 12:01 am
Murray writes: American exceptionalism is not just something that Americans claim for themselves. Historically, Americans have been different
as a people, even peculiar, and everyone around the world has recognized it. I'm thinking of qualities such as American optimism even when there doesn't seem to be any good reason for
it. That's quite uncommon among the peoples of the world. There is the striking lack of class envy in America--by and large, Americans celebrate others' success instead of ...
18 Jan, 2007 2:22 am
The American Enterprise Institute's W. H. Brady Scholar, Charles Murray, completes today a
provocative three-part series in the WSJ's OpinionJournal on education in America (earlier installments are here and here. As with Murray ...
in a compelling and provocative manner, urging us to modify our thoughts and societal prejudices regarding education and intelligence. Murray's
emphasis on IQ as a standard for tailoring education puts some people off, which is unfortunate. As he concludes below, Murray' ...
24 Nov 9:20 am
The New Jersey divorce judge ordered the mother to pay her share of the older son's college tuition. Finding the Probation Department erred in calculating her college expense obligation
(assuming it ended when the son was declared emancipated), the case is remanded for a supplemental audit. Gonzalez v. Valentine, New Jersey App. Div., November 20, 2009
20 Nov 3:09 pm
... warning of what we could, and shouldn't, become. Roughly speaking, it is the same line that divides us politically. I would guess that most in the first group voted for the
Democratic candidate in the last few election and a majority in the second for the Republican. As Charles Murray wrote somewhere, we now know what Barack Obama is. He's a Swede. It would be interesting to look at the same division from the other ...
26 Dec, 2006 3:09 pm
... and ill-conceived books can serve a similar function. Consider, for instance, this review of Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment (Murray's effort to "rank-order the great achievers in an objective manner"). The ...
demonstrated conclusions concerning anything other than what the methodology actually deals with. In this case, assuming the methodology is as unambiguous as Murray (incorrectly) suggests, it gives us demonstrated conclusions pertaining to the amount of space devoted to various people ...
5 Apr, 2006 6:29 pm
... if, like Clive Davis, you find Bawer and Berlinski too shrill, try Charles Murray's new book, In
Our Hands. This is a fairly technical economic plan to replace ... it, he observes that in the rush to the waterfall the European canoe is well ahead of America's. Murray stops crunching the numbers and makes the point that, even if it were affordable, the ... of greatness become an irritant." If Bawer's book is a
wake-up call, Murray reminds us that western Europe long ago threw away the alarm clock and ...
9 Oct, 2007 4:28 pm
... , but I don't think it can be solved: I cannot think of a sociology department that would be improved by hiring Charles Murray or a philosophy department that would be improved by hiring William Kristol or a Middle Eastern studies department that would be ... He seems to assume
that sociology departments are currently fair and unbiased; thus, on DeLong's view, the introduction of Charles Murray would amount to the introduction of bias and shady analysis into a pristine environment. To the contrary, ...
29 Jan, 2007 9:42 am
I just read "What's Wrong With Vocational School?" by Charles Murray with the American Enterprise
Institute. I must admit, I am typically on the other side of the ideological divide from the AEI, but I think Murray is onto something...
29 Jan, 2007 9:42 am
I just read "What's Wrong With Vocational School?" by Charles Murray with the American Enterprise
Institute. I must admit, I am typically on the other side of the ideological divide from the AEI, but I think Murray is onto something...
21 Oct, 2007 10:07 am
... informed and driven by ideology. It could hardly have been otherwise. The book's authors, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, did not release their statistical findings -- the only important original contributions in the book -- for formal ... . William Johnson of the
University of Virginia have shown that scores on the measurement used by Mr. Herrnstein and Mr. Murray, the Armed Forces Qualification Test,
depend on how much schooling individuals have completed. Put simply, the more students study ...
13 Jan 6:03 pm
... do this job (closing in on ten years) the more clear my understanding of world becomes. In one of my favorite movies, Groundhog Day, Bill Murray makes a particularly deep comment about God. "Maybe he's not omnipotent" ponders Murray, "Maybe he's just
been around so long, he knows everything." A stand up comedian that is escaping me at the moment (maybe Bill Cosby or George Carlin) explained wisdom the same way. It can only ...
5 May, 2008 12:13 pm
The May issue of The New Criterion is concerned with education - mostly of the "higher" variety. Contributors include Roger Kimball, Alan Charles Kors, Robert Paquette, Victor Davis Hanson, James Piereson, and Charles Murray.
21 Nov, 2006 7:31 am
... at Each Other About Gay Marriage." The combatants participants: Moderator cum lion tamer: Hon. Edwin Meese II, former Attorney General For the libertarians: Dr. Charles Murray, AEI; Mr. Anthony Romero, ACLU For the social conservatives: Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum; Professor
Hadley Arkes, Amherst College Kinda in between: Professor William Eskridge, Yale Law School Kinda irrelevant: Hon. Walter Delligner, currently of ...
21 Nov, 2006 7:31 am
... more appropriate title for the panel: "Watch Libertarians and Social Conservatives Rant at Each Other About Gay Marriage." The combatants participants: Moderator cum lion tamer:
Hon. Edwin Meese III, former Attorney General For the libertarians: Dr. Charles Murray, AEI; Mr.
Anthony Romero, ACLU For the social conservatives: Mrs. Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum; Professor Hadley Arkes, Amherst College Kinda in between ...
25 Jan, 2007 1:51 am
... make you think the world's at your command. She's as blind as she can be, Just sees what's shown on t.v. Nowhere Lass, do you think that way you can be free at all? Nowhere Lass,
don't worry, You'll never be made to read Charles Murray, Leave it all till somebody else Hands out
your free bus pass. Doesn't have a point of view Knows not where she's going to. Isn't she a bit like you and me?
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