Charles Murray (political scientist)
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Charles Murray speaking at the 2013 FreedomFest in Las Vegas
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| Born | Charles Alan Murray January 8, 1943 Newton, Iowa |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Political science, sociology, Race and intelligence |
| Institutions | American Enterprise Institute |
| Alma mater | B.A. Harvard University (history) 1965 Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (political science) 1974 |
| Known for | The Bell Curve, Losing Ground, Human Accomplishment, Coming Apart |
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Irving Kristol Award (2009) Kistler Prize (2011) |
| Spouse | Suchart Dej-Udom 1966-08-19 (divorced, 1980) Catherine Bly Cox (an English professor), 1983-07-29 |
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Charles Alan Murray (born January 8, 1943) is an American libertarian political scientist, sociologist, author, and columnist.
He became well known for his book Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980 (1984), which discussed the American welfare system. He is best known for his controversial book The Bell Curve (1994), written with Richard Herrnstein, in which he argues that intelligence is a better predictor than parental socio-economic status or education level of many individual outcomes such as: income, job performance, pregnancy out of wedlock, and crime. His other works include In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government (1988), What It Means to be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation (1996), Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (2003), In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State (2006), and Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality (2008).
Murray's articles have appeared in Commentary magazine, The New Criterion, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He is currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, DC.
Of Scotch-Irish ancestry, Murray was born in Newton, Iowa, and raised in a Republican, "Norman Rockwell kind of family" that stressed moral responsibility. He is the son of Frances B. (née Patrick) and Alan B. Murray, a Maytag Company executive. He had an intellectual youth marked by a rebellious and pranksterish sensibility. As a teen, he played pool at a hangout for juvenile delinquents, developed debating skills, espoused labor unionism (to his parents' annoyance), and on one occasion burned a cross next to a police station.
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