@charlesmurray Avatar @charlesmurray Charles Murray

Charles Murray, a prominent author and researcher, has been trending on social media due to his recent comments and tweets on work, economics, and social issues. He argues that able-bodied individuals should work at least [--] hours a week as a civic duty before seeking economic help, and shares scenarios of working-class couples who can support themselves with unskilled jobs. His views have sparked discussions and debates online.

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Social Influence

Social category influence countries 6.72% finance 2.99% automotive brands 2.24% stocks 2.24% technology brands 2.24% social networks 1.49% vc firms 0.75% luxury brands 0.75%

Social topic influence the most #1670, if you 5.97%, in the 5.97%, history 3.73%, this is 3.73%, civilization #960, science 2.99%, at least 2.99%, money #3348, just a 2.24%

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Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"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 [----]. Not a year in which facing reality was in vogue. Itsa 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 theres no way around it. https://t.co/aXNW73DL2n Itsa 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"
X Link 2025-09-28T21:45Z 157.6K followers, 330.6K engagements

"No. Smart working class kids are drastically under identified. There was a major article on this a few years ago but I don't the cite at my fingertips. @charlesmurray My theory why western societies are stagnating I because we've already found all the smart working class kids. We now need to find the smart underclass kids. That requires IQ and behavioral (Concientiousness) testing at an early age. @charlesmurray My theory why western societies are stagnating I because we've already found all the smart working class kids. We now need to find the smart underclass kids. That requires IQ and"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:08Z 157.6K followers, 201.1K engagements

"(1) A young married couple both unskilled take convenience store jobs at $15/hr in a moderately prosperous state. The big convenience and fast-food chains offer pretty good benefits. They both work 48-hour weeks giving them a combined annual income of $74880 enough to pay for a nice place to live everywhere except a few megalopolises and even enough to put some money aside to help pay for a baby. @charlesmurray @MaskettaMale Finding a job with benefits that lets you have a home and family has become impossibly hard though. @charlesmurray @MaskettaMale Finding a job with benefits that lets you"
X Link 2025-07-06T18:45Z 157.6K followers, 15.9M engagements

"DEI causes me to feel fatigue. "Diversity" "equity" and "inclusion" aren't inherently bad; it's the distortion of the concepts in implementation that fatigues. Christopher Nolan casting a black woman as Helen of Troy in The Odyssey causes me to feel hostility. It is a deliberate assault on a treasure of Western Civilization. But the same thing applies on a lesser scale to the casting in Bridgerton. It's a distortion of a historical setting in the service of an ideology and I find it offensive. OTOH I'm old and grumpy. There is an audience for woke content. Bridgerton and Heated Rivalry draw"
X Link 2026-02-02T11:22Z 157.6K followers, 650K engagements

"You're correct if one reads Homer for the bare bones of the plot line: Beautiful woman causes a war and context doesn't matter. If instead one reads Homer to imaginatively enter the world of the Trojan war and if one (historically accurately) has Caucasians in mind's eye (be they fair or swarthy--there are arguments about that) then a black Helen of Troy gets in the way of one's enjoyment. Diane Kruger doesn't. I'm in the imaginatively-enter-into-another-world tribe of fiction readers and movie-goers. I used to assume that everyone is but reactions like yours are expressed so often that I"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:22Z 157.6K followers, 91.8K engagements

"OTOH a good PhD program might have taught her to be a little more careful in her use of sources. Checking them for Guns of August was a disillusioning experience for me as a college senior. Barbara Tuchman's response to not having a Ph.D. She noted Herodotus Thucydides Gibbon Macaulay and Parkman did not have a Ph.D. She thought the requirements of conventional academic life can stultify imagination stifle enthusiasm and deaden prose style. https://t.co/NjxZMX4iTt Barbara Tuchman's response to not having a Ph.D. She noted Herodotus Thucydides Gibbon Macaulay and Parkman did not have a Ph.D."
X Link 2026-02-11T18:33Z 157.6K followers, 66.2K engagements

"RT @JMF1958: Link @charlesmurray https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2013a_hoxby.pdf https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2013a_hoxby.pdf"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:59Z 157.6K followers, [--] engagements

"2/2 (2) the four subtests in the AFQT are so highly g-loaded that it produces a good estimate of overall IQ. Correlations of the AFQT with Stanford-Binet and the WAIS were +.71 +.73 respectively. The Stanford-Binet and WAIS correlate with each other at +.77"
X Link 2024-07-11T14:42Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"I think you can find some "real famous" leftist academics on the no-genetic-cognitive-differences side. But when it comes to people anywhere from the center rightward it's not just academics but also no real famous public intellectuals. Hardly anyone who enjoys a positive reputation with the center or right wants to risk publicly agreeing that genetic cognitive differences play a role. Here (in order) is the list that Grok gave me for the [--] most famous public intellectuals with centrist or right-leaning politics: Jordan Peterson Thomas Sowell Yuval Harari Steven Pinker Nassim Taleb Francis"
X Link 2026-01-28T14:12Z 157.6K followers, 183.9K engagements

"This is the most concise statement I've seen of the damage that has been done by failing to talk openly about the B/W IQ difference. We unnecessarily created a vacuum that was filled by toxic stuff. One more point: Unless you can talk freely about the differences in means you can't talk about the overlap in distributions and the consequent importance of treating people as individuals not members of groups. Ignoring the large IQ gap between blacks and whites is how we get wokism. If you cannot tell somebody the honest reason for large group disparities in social outcomes then you leave a"
X Link 2026-02-01T22:34Z 157.4K followers, 177.8K engagements

"Serious request: give me an example of pseudoscience about race and IQ thats been published in the last half century in an even semi-reputable outlet. The reason we have taboos about studying race & intelligence is not morality but experience; there's a shockingly copious history of the topic attracting pseudoscience. While knowledge of the subject shouldn't be off-limits per se the risk of bad science masquerading as The reason we have taboos about studying race & intelligence is not morality but experience; there's a shockingly copious history of the topic attracting pseudoscience. While"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:06Z 157.5K followers, 71K engagements

"That's my experience too. But @DelanoSquires has a point. Your followers and mine are heavily weighted with people who have been familiar with the Asian-white difference and in fact are grateful for it (we don't have to be in the position of saying whites are number one). But reading other commentary I have been struck by the willingness of some whites to rush to generalizations about the lack of Asian creativity or to brush aside the Asian-white test score differences as just a reflection of rote test preparation (or cheating). That response is definitely out there and so is the evidence for"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:36Z 157.4K followers, 48.2K engagements

"What's especially weird (as I recall--I haven't reread GG&S recently) is that he just claims it. Doesn't offer any evidence except a few personal anecdotes. So I guess it doesn't qualify as pseudoscience. @charlesmurray In Guns Germs & Steel Jared Diamond asserted that Papua New Guinea tribespeople exhibited higher IQ than his native New Yorkers. I dont know if that even qualifies as pseudo science but it was a highly praised book in which otherwise he finds race to have been insignificant. @charlesmurray In Guns Germs & Steel Jared Diamond asserted that Papua New Guinea tribespeople"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:49Z 157.4K followers, 21.7K engagements

"Piker When I was a child in Newton Iowa and you picked up the phone to make a call you got an operator not a dial tone. @Sadie_NC I remember when I first used a touch tone phone. On a pay phone on a street in the Loop in Chicago in summer [----]. During the Douglas-Percy Senate race. @Sadie_NC I remember when I first used a touch tone phone. On a pay phone on a street in the Loop in Chicago in summer [----]. During the Douglas-Percy Senate race"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:57Z 157.6K followers, 10.1K engagements

"Yes. It's so completely obvious. It's the poor smart kids who get screwed when public school gifted programs are killed. Not the rich smart kids. Just a hunch but I feel like killing "accelerated classes" and "talent programs" and "magnet schools" and the like is not really that bad for rich smart kids whose parents will find a way anyways. It's really bad for poor smart kids Just a hunch but I feel like killing "accelerated classes" and "talent programs" and "magnet schools" and the like is not really that bad for rich smart kids whose parents will find a way anyways. It's really bad for"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:28Z 157.6K followers, 90.1K engagements

"Groundhog Day. Without competition. Need movie recommendations. What are some of the most philosophically rich films Need movie recommendations. What are some of the most philosophically rich films"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:06Z 157.6K followers, 16.3K engagements

"Source please. There are over [----] janitors in the US with PhDs. Most of us are White guys. This is 100% due to the control of US academia by people like Deborah Lipstadt. There are over [----] janitors in the US with PhDs. Most of us are White guys. This is 100% due to the control of US academia by people like Deborah Lipstadt"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:22Z 157.4K followers, 27.7K engagements

"Will youre buying into a myth. I havent been able to trust WaPos take on events ever. The op Ed page has been great (and Meg Greenfield deserves the credit) but the news pages have been standard liberal narrative. Always. "Bezos lacks the courage and resolve to lead one of the great institutions in American journalism. . he is no longer a swashbuckling badass. He should sell the Post to someone who is." Former WaPo managing editor @cameronbarr on Bezos's failed tenure. https://t.co/XKnxYj7go8 "Bezos lacks the courage and resolve to lead one of the great institutions in American journalism. ."
X Link 2026-02-06T01:12Z 157.4K followers, 55.2K engagements

"1. @nfergus's placement of Trump in the populist tradition and his recapitulation of 2000-2016 are both worth your time. [--]. As someone who did lots of these kinds of appearances back in the day I am deeply depressed by how much better Niall is at it than I am. Though I've known that for a while. Years ago we were on the same side in a debate about welfare policy. It was the most restful debate I've ever been in. I didn't have to say anything. Niall sliced and diced the other guys rinsed the pieces down the drain and we went out for a drink. A must watch. Especially for Canadians. Niall"
X Link 2026-02-06T12:54Z 157.4K followers, 26K engagements

"Entirely appropriate to examine all these points thoroughly. And I say this as someone who is fairly philo-Asian. @default_friend You seem like a good faith debater so let me ask a simple question. Do you think an increasingly Asian elite will have no cultural effects Or do you think there will be cultural effects theyll just be mostly good Many Americans assume either that Asians assimilate well so we @default_friend You seem like a good faith debater so let me ask a simple question. Do you think an increasingly Asian elite will have no cultural effects Or do you think there will be cultural"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:05Z 157.4K followers, 30.1K engagements

"Public policy was governed for [--] years by a false assumption that caused enormous harm on a variety of measures. It is not obsessive to say it had to stop and to do that it was required that the facts about race and IQ be discussed. I always found it ironic that the race & IQ obsessives lack the intelligence to see why the subject is taboo for very good reasons. I always found it ironic that the race & IQ obsessives lack the intelligence to see why the subject is taboo for very good reasons"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:05Z 157.6K followers, 30K engagements

"@TomAgitator I think you and Thailand are both better off without each other"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:01Z 157.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@davidpdeavel Well they definitely hate good books. But they love to write about them using impenetrable English prose with lots of made-up words"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:50Z 157.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Yeah. Same question. I'm baffled by the level of hostility that Helen Andrews's completely reasonable question--in effect "Shouldn't we be thinking about this"--arouses. @JHWeissmann What specifically about her tweet causes you to characterize her as an "intellectual dud" @JHWeissmann What specifically about her tweet causes you to characterize her as an "intellectual dud""
X Link 2026-02-07T11:59Z 157.6K followers, 30.3K engagements

"I had not heard. I met Ed around [----] we liked each other and became dear friends. He was also everything that Timothy says. I will miss him. RIP to @CatoInstitute founder Ed Cranewho as @tomgpalmer says did more than any single person of our day to revive a moribund tradition of liberalism toleration legal respect for equal human dignity free trade and peace than anyone of his age. https://t.co/LVaYTbwedp RIP to @CatoInstitute founder Ed Cranewho as @tomgpalmer says did more than any single person of our day to revive a moribund tradition of liberalism toleration legal respect for equal"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:06Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"A brilliant column. And to the guys may I add that everything that married love can feel like from the woman's point of view has its counterpart in what it feels like from the man's point of view. Today only no paywall for my @TheFP advice column. This one's for all the single ladies. Enjoy https://t.co/Ya5bs22EIs Today only no paywall for my @TheFP advice column. This one's for all the single ladies. Enjoy https://t.co/Ya5bs22EIs"
X Link 2026-02-15T12:28Z 157.6K followers, 67.3K engagements

"This is a thoughtful analysis worth reading. 🧵 1/n I try not to chime in on these kinds of things but I happen to hold degrees from two of these fine institutions and felt compelled to offer a perspective. https://t.co/ychIrMP3DG 🧵 1/n I try not to chime in on these kinds of things but I happen to hold degrees from two of these fine institutions and felt compelled to offer a perspective. https://t.co/ychIrMP3DG"
X Link 2026-02-16T00:05Z 157.6K followers, 11.2K engagements

"Let's see now. How much have Amazon and Google and Tesla made the lives of hundreds of millions of people better A lot. How much has MacKenzie Scott made the lives of hundreds of millions of people better Who has given more MacKenzie Scott gave more in [----] than Musk Page Ellison and her ex-husband Bezos have in their lifetimes combined. Let that sink in folks. Via Forbes. #matriarchy https://t.co/D0MlbsKQZG MacKenzie Scott gave more in [----] than Musk Page Ellison and her ex-husband Bezos have in their lifetimes combined. Let that sink in folks. Via Forbes. #matriarchy"
X Link 2026-02-16T14:50Z 157.6K followers, 46.1K engagements

"In a sufficiently advanced college math class lots of the [---] IQ kids have to drop out because they just can't learn the material whereas almost all the [---] kids can. In a history or literature class it's more subjective. My experience is that the [---] range though really smart is accompanied by more class contributions that indicate they don't quite get it whereas that seldom happens with [---] kids. In a class on contemporary politics a fair number of the [---] kids will take monumentally stupid positions that would never occur to the [---] kids. @makn_libs_cope @charlesmurray Whats the evidence"
X Link 2026-01-09T14:34Z 157.6K followers, 3.1M engagements

"@TheSimonEvans I reviewed Troublesome Inheritance very positively for WSJ. I've only skimmed Origin of Politics"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:00Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Wow. Just wow. Here's the thought experiment that came to mind when I read Andrews' essay. It was "What if five million well-educated American whites moved to Thailand" I was struck by how apt the analogy was. The immigrants to Thailand would have high social capital and they would have been socialized in a society which (except for the megalopolises) is still high-trust civic-minded and low-crime. American Whites would be a model minority. But five million is too many. There are lots of whites in Thailand already but almost all of them understand that it's their job to adapt to Thailand not"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:33Z 157.6K followers, 202.8K engagements

"Sounds right. New Article: I used the NLSY to see if intergenerational mobility in terms of income is at least partially caused by parent-child differences in IQ. My conclusion is that it is to a substantial degree. https://t.co/ISJa3NXxnH New Article: I used the NLSY to see if intergenerational mobility in terms of income is at least partially caused by parent-child differences in IQ. My conclusion is that it is to a substantial degree. https://t.co/ISJa3NXxnH"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:01Z 157.6K followers, 13.5K engagements

"As I follow the backs-and-forths about American culture and white culture I keep thinking that the essential analysis has existed for [--] years written by one of the most brilliant social scientists America has ever produced. Read it"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:11Z 157.6K followers, 188.5K engagements

"This is a wonderful appreciation of my friend Ed Crane. I especially endorse Jeffs description of Eds importance to Cato adding only how sad it was to see Eds heart broken by the way he was cast out. https://thefederalist.com/2026/02/16/ed-crane-was-right-about-free-speech-and-the-iraq-war-years-before-the-country-caught-up/ https://thefederalist.com/2026/02/16/ed-crane-was-right-about-free-speech-and-the-iraq-war-years-before-the-country-caught-up/"
X Link 2026-02-16T18:20Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"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 cant sue when their workplace feels like a Montessori kindergarten." How I came to see the Great Feminization as the most significant event of our centuryand a potential threat to civilization. https://t.co/6R9wwGvUVh How I came to see the Great Feminization as the most significant event of our centuryand a potential threat to"
X Link 2025-10-16T12:36Z 157.6K followers, 6.6M engagements

"Agreed. Gen Z needs to realize what people accepted as a normal first home in the 50s. In Newton Iowa it was about 1000-1500 sq ft small living room two small bedrooms small bathroom kitchen with a small dining table no basement no attic. Yes you could afford to buy it working on the assembly line at Maytag Co (which payed good wages) and I played with friends in such houses without it crossing my mind that they were deprived. Good times in many ways. But the expectations were different. No working class man in the 1950s bought this house. This is pure unadulterated historically illiterate"
X Link 2025-11-13T14:50Z 157.6K followers, 2M engagements

"This is what that noted biblical scholar Grok had to say about St. Ignatius and John. @hdpayens I'm on your side of the argument and this is a good point only did Ignatius definitely know John I thought that was Polycarp. @hdpayens I'm on your side of the argument and this is a good point only did Ignatius definitely know John I thought that was Polycarp"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:37Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Typically the page of text she cited simply didnt support what she had written in her text. @charlesmurray Do you remember what discrepancies you found in "Guns of August" @charlesmurray Do you remember what discrepancies you found in "Guns of August""
X Link 2026-02-11T19:09Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"One of the things that contributed a lot to competence among federal employees was the Civil Service Exam. It was dropped in [----] because of "disparate impact." Now that disparate impact is rejected as evidence of discrimination and the Trump administration has ended the Carter administration's Luevano consent degree the Trump administration could reinstate the Civil Service Exam. Doing so could make a huge difference in the competence of new federal hires. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022019821177848317 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022019821177848317"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:47Z 157.6K followers, 245.9K engagements

"In public schools the standardized tests focus on cutoff measures such as "proficiency." Identifying high scorers is routinely ignored. @charlesmurray There were working-class kids in my Catholic elementary school and I assume they took the same standardized tests everyone else did and there were a lot of them. Has that changed @charlesmurray There were working-class kids in my Catholic elementary school and I assume they took the same standardized tests everyone else did and there were a lot of them. Has that changed"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:50Z 157.6K followers, 11.1K engagements

"Everyone should experience a grand passion. And never ever marry that person. Grand passions are by definition doomed to flameout. Youre a little bit (or a lot) crazy during them. @robinhanson I suspect the notion of "passion" considered here is a shallow and ultimately unappealing one. In order to have a fulfilling notion of passion it helps to be driven by a belief that your partner is truly the best you could have.and ideally too good for you. (I also wonder how @robinhanson I suspect the notion of "passion" considered here is a shallow and ultimately unappealing one. In order to have a"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:57Z 157.6K followers, 15K engagements

"@Hitchslap1 Few How can that be given the sales of The Bell Curve which had an entire appendix given over to an examination of the psychometric properties of the AFDC"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:02Z 157.6K followers, 17.1K engagements

"Two days later I notice that it should be "AFQT." Sigh. @Hitchslap1 Few How can that be given the sales of The Bell Curve which had an entire appendix given over to an examination of the psychometric properties of the AFDC. @Hitchslap1 Few How can that be given the sales of The Bell Curve which had an entire appendix given over to an examination of the psychometric properties of the AFDC"
X Link 2026-02-14T13:00Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@conor64 To be fair you could substitute the name of any other major and still be confident that conservatives are not the biggest ideological cohort. We are endangered species on every campus"
X Link 2026-02-15T12:18Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"How on earth did FDR do it Besides becoming president after GDP had dropped [--] percent in the preceding three years and having an average of 15% growth annually during the war years. The craziest thing about this graph was FDR was President for [--] years. And his average was 8%. He was also the last President to make the poorest 50% of Americans significantly better off when he left office. It turns out you can redistribute wealth and grow the economy. https://t.co/UZBgW6gS9e The craziest thing about this graph was FDR was President for [--] years. And his average was 8%. He was also the last"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:49Z 157.6K followers, 52.4K engagements

"I do not melt down. @peterbrimelow @vdare @charlesmurray I remember when Charles had a meltdown on here a few years ago because younger people were learning the wrong lesson after reading the bell curve @peterbrimelow @vdare @charlesmurray I remember when Charles had a meltdown on here a few years ago because younger people were learning the wrong lesson after reading the bell curve"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:18Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"I wrote most of Losing Ground on an Osborne. @ShamashAran I'm not going to play "I'm the most ancient" because I'm probably not. I did know my way around HIMEM.SYS though. The computer that really captured my imagination was the Osborne. The screen was built-in You could take it with you places (if you got Dad to carry it for you). https://t.co/cXp4kbte2o @ShamashAran I'm not going to play "I'm the most ancient" because I'm probably not. I did know my way around HIMEM.SYS though. The computer that really captured my imagination was the Osborne. The screen was built-in You could take it with"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:45Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"RT @hkozachkov: In freshman year of undergrad--2003--I had to take an "honors seminar" because I'm a fancy-lad. I took one called Bioethics"
X Link 2026-02-16T12:56Z 157.6K followers, [---] engagements

""Sitting on their vast wealth" could also be phrased "investing their vast wealth in productive enterprises instead of throwing money to activist NGOs that are mostly scams." @charlesmurray But Bezos Musk Ellison Page are mostly sitting on their vast wealth. Gates and Buffet have given away $120 billion combined. Good for MacKenzie https://t.co/icN2Su2YOA @charlesmurray But Bezos Musk Ellison Page are mostly sitting on their vast wealth. Gates and Buffet have given away $120 billion combined. Good for MacKenzie https://t.co/icN2Su2YOA"
X Link 2026-02-17T13:49Z 157.6K followers, 25.7K engagements

"It's hard to exaggerate the harm done to the American Experiment by the disparate impact doctrine. Its logic was empirically indefensible. Its implementation was mindless. Overturning it could be one of the most important accomplishments of the second Trump term. Great new executive order with a nice one-sentence summary: "It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact. in all contexts to the maximum degree possible". https://t.co/SXoMVk38Dc Great new executive order with a nice one-sentence summary: "It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use"
X Link 2025-04-24T06:27Z 157.5K followers, 219.1K engagements

"If you don't understand what disparate-impact doctrine has wrought read just the first two paragraphs. Then when you find you can't stop read the rest. https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-restoring-meritocracy-executive-order-disparate-impact-theory-civil-rights https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-restoring-meritocracy-executive-order-disparate-impact-theory-civil-rights"
X Link 2025-04-24T21:27Z 157.6K followers, 71.8K engagements

"I have yet to see @jk_rowling put a step wrong during the firestorm she's been through. I dont have the power to sack an actor from the series and I wouldnt exercise it if I did. I dont believe in taking away peoples jobs or livelihoods because they hold legally protected beliefs that differ from mine. https://t.co/nKcAl3gcvO I dont have the power to sack an actor from the series and I wouldnt exercise it if I did. I dont believe in taking away peoples jobs or livelihoods because they hold legally protected beliefs that differ from mine. https://t.co/nKcAl3gcvO"
X Link 2025-05-06T11:09Z 157.6K followers, 92.7K engagements

"Yesterday a friend saw a top medical specialist after being treated by an ordinarily qualified specialist in that field. "It was like going from a Model T to a Lamborghini." Which brings home a truth nobody wants to research: Most of us don't give a damn about the holistic"
X Link 2025-05-22T12:19Z 157.6K followers, 166.9K engagements

"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 [----] was [----] percent American"
X Link 2025-05-27T18:09Z 157.5K followers, 308.6K engagements

"Noah did you forget your coffee this morning What hereditarian has ever doubted the malleability of heritable traits given systematic breeding How could they First time Ive seen the argument that racists are wrong because you can just do eugenics https://t.co/5etc0NIShE First time Ive seen the argument that racists are wrong because you can just do eugenics https://t.co/5etc0NIShE"
X Link 2025-06-01T12:02Z 157.6K followers, 79.2K engagements

"@avidseries Are you sure you didnt mean to say tragedies instead of advances But defending that requires a long disquisition on the role of the social sciences and humanities. Not for X"
X Link 2025-06-21T19:13Z 157.5K followers, 53K engagements

"Im curious how many people reading this thread know WHY the British public schools taught Latin and. Greek. Hint: it wasnt so they could read the classics in the original. @charlesmurray If people want to learn dead languages for the sake of reading a few texts they should do it on their own time or within the gay bathhouse that is their classics department and not inflict this wholly unnecessary cruelty on people who want to learn something useful and relevant. @charlesmurray If people want to learn dead languages for the sake of reading a few texts they should do it on their own time or"
X Link 2025-06-21T20:43Z 157.5K followers, 477K engagements

"The man wrote it in his late eighties. The voice is that of a young man. An extremely brilliant and erudite young man. Maybe the best history book I've ever read https://t.co/Nu0Z1OjRu7 Maybe the best history book I've ever read https://t.co/Nu0Z1OjRu7"
X Link 2025-06-26T22:37Z 157.5K followers, 198.4K engagements

"We need a word that means legitimate fear that Islam is inherently incompatible with Western civilization and liberal political institutions. Zohrans moral clarity amidst one of the most dangerous spikes in Islamophobia in a country where violent Islamophobia is treated as totally normal and acceptable has been a sight to behold. Zohrans leadership is steady & clear while the two parties sound increasingly similar. Zohrans moral clarity amidst one of the most dangerous spikes in Islamophobia in a country where violent Islamophobia is treated as totally normal and acceptable has been a sight"
X Link 2025-07-04T13:23Z 157.5K followers, 59.4K engagements

"Why shouldn't an able-bodied working-aged person in a full employment economy be expected to work at least [--] hours a week as a minimal civic duty before asking for economic help from anyone else (40 hours in a week isn't much work BTW)"
X Link 2025-07-06T13:09Z 157.5K followers, 440.6K engagements

"I've finally been brought to it. I can't help myself. Kids these days"
X Link 2025-07-09T12:46Z 157.6K followers, 102.6K engagements

"That anyone can come to America and become an American. Not [---] degrees. Rather I think that Islam is inherently incompatible with liberal democracy. On what issue have you changed your mind [---] degrees On what issue have you changed your mind [---] degrees"
X Link 2025-07-12T13:03Z 157.5K followers, 722.5K engagements

"Nowhere in this article does it mention that all the major late night shows are openly contemptuous of half of the American population. Seems relevant. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/stephen-colbert-cancelled-late-night-show-cbs/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/stephen-colbert-cancelled-late-night-show-cbs/"
X Link 2025-07-23T02:12Z 157.5K followers, 28.4K engagements

"Sometimes I/o I doubt your soundness on the male conservative psyche. I think you may have a tad of Margaret Mead syndrome. Or maybe you are exposed to an unrepresentative sample. Offhand I cant think of a single conservative male acquaintance who prefers a small hip-waist ratio"
X Link 2025-07-28T19:49Z 157.5K followers, 100.3K engagements

"For decades Minnesota was a standard Midwestern state with a mild tilt toward the left--Humphrey Mondale etc.--but culturally pretty much like Iowa where I grew up. What happened in the last decade Is this a Minneapolis thing or is it more broadly shared across the state I'm mystified"
X Link 2025-07-29T02:41Z 157.5K followers, 276K engagements

"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 Eagle jeans skyrockets despite the fury of the woke is it possible that the profit motive will finally trump whatever has been motivating corporations until now"
X Link 2025-07-29T20:01Z 157.5K followers, 269.9K engagements

"I got a laugh from a Swedish audience (hard to do) by saying almost any system of govt will work if youre governing Swedes. But that was in the 1980s. One thing I can never agree with conservatives on is hating welfare on principle. The Nordic countries proved that having tons of social spending works great as long as your country is 99% Scandinavian. One thing I can never agree with conservatives on is hating welfare on principle. The Nordic countries proved that having tons of social spending works great as long as your country is 99% Scandinavian"
X Link 2025-07-31T01:16Z 157.5K followers, 214.4K engagements

"I would think that the minimum age for getting this joke is around [--]. "Look It's Alice Kramden." https://t.co/e5CUkQlYCU "Look It's Alice Kramden." https://t.co/e5CUkQlYCU"
X Link 2025-08-07T14:24Z 157.6K followers, 784.2K engagements

"This is a great response but there's also a lot of truth to it at least for me and my male friends. It would be helpful if women could eavesdrop on our conversations. They're nothing like the conversations between close female friends that I've overheard. My hypothesis is that men and women are different. In our defense men also show little interest in the inner lives of men. https://t.co/7zabrIXDrm In our defense men also show little interest in the inner lives of men. https://t.co/7zabrIXDrm"
X Link 2025-08-07T16:57Z 157.5K followers, 205.6K engagements

"BREAKING: Not a single solitary incoming freshman self-identified as White in the Harvard Class of [----]. Or maybe I'm missing something"
X Link 2025-08-10T12:20Z 157.6K followers, 605.7K engagements

"I don't know who this guy is but he gets across research findings about parenting better than anyone I've ever heard or read and that includes the descriptions I've written"
X Link 2025-08-20T18:54Z 157.6K followers, 387.9K engagements

"A Republican president. Bring on the TDS responses. If you call yourself conservative and can stomach this youre beyond help. This administration brags about corporate welfare cronyism and corruption. They are the enemies of liberty and prosperity. This administration brags about corporate welfare cronyism and corruption. They are the enemies of liberty and prosperity"
X Link 2025-08-22T23:23Z 157.5K followers, 349.9K engagements

"Occasionally on X one encounters an insight that borders on genius. Neither will I. I will never understand backing into parking spaces I will never understand backing into parking spaces"
X Link 2025-08-26T00:19Z 157.5K followers, 353.1K engagements

"I have loved Teddy Roosevelt's declamation on immigrants and immigration for many years but now is a good time for his eloquence to be more widely known. I will also specify that I agree with both the third paragraph and the final paragraph"
X Link 2025-08-26T21:36Z 157.5K followers, 83K engagements

"Ive had men explain IQ to me for ten minutes after knowing that I was coauthor of TBC. What should I make of this Anything except that people can be oblivious a man I once met explained to me for 10min what philosophy is after I told him I teach & write it for a living. I love DM but I refuse to be told that this interaction was just a 'conversation'. Men might talk to men like this but when done to a woman it invokes a sexist dynamic https://t.co/r9aFO645jj a man I once met explained to me for 10min what philosophy is after I told him I teach & write it for a living. I love DM but I refuse"
X Link 2025-08-29T20:54Z 157.5K followers, 146.9K engagements

"Somebody should put together a list of things on which most academics have been scientifically demonstrably wrong for years for ideological reasons. There have been lots since the mid 1960s. Before then Just saw this funny take in a Community Note and it reminded me of how incredibly unlikely it is for heterosexual people to get HIV. https://t.co/NBzqfgTUZN Just saw this funny take in a Community Note and it reminded me of how incredibly unlikely it is for heterosexual people to get HIV. https://t.co/NBzqfgTUZN"
X Link 2025-09-01T12:13Z 157.5K followers, 85.3K engagements

"Because never before have schools been lavishly funded to do the same thing and failed. If you dont count Kansas City. The Gates Foundation. The. Oh never mind. It's a mystery. https://t.co/6XSzJNScao It's a mystery. https://t.co/6XSzJNScao"
X Link 2025-09-03T14:37Z 157.5K followers, 85.5K engagements

"Identifying children who are even [--] SD above the mean on all three should be on the priority list for K-12 education. They are a precious resource--the appropriate spine of civil society. Exceptional ability is by definition rare. And exceptionality in more than one area simultaneously is even more rare. In a new article @GillesEGignac estimates how rare it is for a person to have high IQ conscientiousness and emotional stability all at the same time. Based https://t.co/mJ2wqE3nu3 Exceptional ability is by definition rare. And exceptionality in more than one area simultaneously is even more"
X Link 2025-09-05T11:39Z 157.5K followers, 125.8K engagements

"For those who wonder why it turns out that bright children don't have big vocabularies primarily because they are systematically exposed to a broader range of words--the books-in-the-house explanation one hears all the time--but because when they read or hear a new word they try to infer what it means from the context. The smarter they are the more consistently they try and the more efficiently they succeed. It's as true of smart kids in poor households with no books as it is for more fortunate kids. There's also a feedback loop--the smarter they are the more likely they are to engage in"
X Link 2025-09-09T17:08Z 157.5K followers, 215.2K engagements

"I think I should state more explicitly what I think about assimilation and immigration. [--]. Historically America did a sensational job of assimilating a wide range of ethnicities--not without tensions not without conflict but successfully. Yes immigrants formed enclaves that persisted but the Chinatowns and Little Italies and other enclaves added to America's vibrancy--I regret that so many have faded away. But even at their height the people who lived in those enclaves were no less emphatic about being real Americans than Mayflower Americans. [--]. That assimilation didn't happen by accident."
X Link 2025-09-23T14:26Z 157.5K followers, 73.4K engagements

"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 was at advanced math. Humiliation can be good for you. 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 youre not a genius then youre probably going to get your ass handed to you. High school math even the honors track even getting a 5"
X Link 2025-10-05T19:58Z 157.5K followers, 706.6K engagements

"I am another of those who cannot square the Tucker Carlson of [----] with the younger scourge-of-bullshit Tucker of Weekly Standard days. It has been painful to watch. Back in [----] Facing Reality had been effectively canceled. The only platform I got was Tucker's on his internet show. Even then Tucker had gotten strange. But I had liked and admired him so much in the past and was so grateful to have a chance to talk about the book that I accepted his invitation. I trekked to Maine met his lovely wife and I think at least one of his children and spent a happy hour talking about the book. Tucker"
X Link 2025-10-11T23:07Z 157.5K followers, 419K engagements

"No thanks. Post an unpopular opinion thatll put you in a position like this. https://t.co/6MXlprF3RR Post an unpopular opinion thatll put you in a position like this. https://t.co/6MXlprF3RR"
X Link 2025-10-12T11:31Z 157.5K followers, 111.3K engagements

"If you still have any letters written by great-grandparents in your house you can probably verify this for yourself. Reading any bit of scrap written in English between 1850-1950 feels like stumbling upon a lost civilization of [---] IQ geniuses compared to what our elites put out today. Random letters by soldiers show more erudition than Harvard PhDs. Reading any bit of scrap written in English between 1850-1950 feels like stumbling upon a lost civilization of [---] IQ geniuses compared to what our elites put out today. Random letters by soldiers show more erudition than Harvard PhDs"
X Link 2025-10-14T14:07Z 157.5K followers, 76.9K engagements

"The [----] Census shows a white literacy rate of 89.8% @charlesmurray Well yeah when only the top 10% can read they tend to write pretty well @charlesmurray Well yeah when only the top 10% can read they tend to write pretty well"
X Link 2025-10-14T17:26Z 157.5K followers, 425K engagements

"I'm still waiting to read something by David French that doesn't irritate me. Even when I agree with the substance the sanctimony drives me nuts. In this case I wholly disagree with his take on Helen Andrews. The new right groans under the weight of its nostalgia for a nation that did not exist. It pines for a story that vindicates its reactionary rage. And in writing about a false enemy that destroyed a fake past Andrews and the many other architects of the right-wing gender wars The new right groans under the weight of its nostalgia for a nation that did not exist. It pines for a story that"
X Link 2025-10-24T12:09Z 157.5K followers, 170.3K engagements

"Really Putins daughter btw https://t.co/9Txi4VGnxs Putins daughter btw https://t.co/9Txi4VGnxs"
X Link 2025-10-27T11:12Z 157.5K followers, 391.9K engagements

"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 for at least twenty minutes and that I soon realized that my job was to listen. James Watson needed a sympathetic ear. Perhaps he saw me as someone who had experienced on a far smaller scale something similar to what he had experienced. Perhaps he figured (correctly) that I would agree with what pained him the most: He"
X Link 2025-11-08T02:10Z 157.5K followers, 305.7K engagements

"I have made no secret of my view of Trump-the-man but I have also come to acknowledge that many of the things he is doing are good. With that has come a "that's just Trump being Trump" reaction to a lot of things that I used to see as serious mental instability. His recent Greenland statements feel like something next-level crazy. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013162289067667597 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013162289067667597"
X Link 2026-01-19T08:11Z 156.2K followers, 383.5K engagements

"You're right. I have hopes that Virginia will be the canary in the coal mine for traditional conservatives (or Madisonians as I prefer). The things we dislike about the Trumpian right are trivial compared to the things that could destroy the country if the current generation of Democrats controls the White House and Congress in [----]. It all goes away with a snap of the fingers if the Democrats resieze power. Just look at Virginia this very week. It all goes away with a snap of the fingers if the Democrats resieze power. Just look at Virginia this very week"
X Link 2026-01-20T05:04Z 156.6K followers, 216.6K engagements

"Cite the cases please. @charlesmurray Professor the supreme court has consistently said disparate impact cannot be used as proof of discrimination. This fact was disregarded by the woke among us which is why you saw so much turnover when the DOJ civil rights division was helmed by Harmeet Dhillon. @charlesmurray Professor the supreme court has consistently said disparate impact cannot be used as proof of discrimination. This fact was disregarded by the woke among us which is why you saw so much turnover when the DOJ civil rights division was helmed by Harmeet Dhillon"
X Link 2026-01-21T11:14Z 156.2K followers, 13.6K engagements

"You're right Amy. I will add the footnote I always add when commenting on the film: Gene Kranz was an authentic hero on Apollo [--] and his role is accurately portrayed. What the film didn't cover was that Gene's White Team left Mission Control an hour after the accident and Glynn Lunney and his Black Team took over at a time when no one yet knew what had happened nor that the CSM had to be completely shut down. What Lunney did over the next [--] hours--successfully shut down the CSM and power up the LM and transfer the crew using procedures that had to be invented on the fly--was in the words"
X Link 2026-01-21T15:02Z 157K followers, 290.4K engagements

"I think that the left still does not understand how incredibly pissed white people especially white males are at the anti-white discrimination that went on for so long. If the Dems win in [----] and try to reinstall DEI it will provoke a historic reaction. OTOH I've been known to be wrong. @mattyglesias I think universities will be afraid to resume the sub-rosa illegal discrimination in hiring and admissions. Now they are on notice that a future GOP administration might give the law teeth which will make it too risky to go back to business-as-usual under the next Dem. @mattyglesias I think"
X Link 2026-01-22T19:20Z 157.3K followers, 190.2K engagements

"Maybe I've been too hard on DEI. These Australian aboriginals have beaten the odds to become junior doctors. https://t.co/KiqKlJDXs6 These Australian aboriginals have beaten the odds to become junior doctors. https://t.co/KiqKlJDXs6"
X Link 2026-01-23T19:52Z 156.2K followers, 42.7K engagements

"And let's also take a minute to appreciate how grotesquely the author mischaracterizes the research he is going after. @KirkegaardEmil how about posting links to all the articles that he mentions Let's all take a minute to appreciate that the New York Times just wrote a screed against free and open inquiry. They're very upset that people looked into questions they don't want people to look into. How dare they Let's all take a minute to appreciate that the New York Times just wrote a screed against free and open inquiry. They're very upset that people looked into questions they don't want"
X Link 2026-01-24T18:59Z 156.2K followers, 30.6K engagements

"In my youth I saw anthropologist as a rangy adventurers who would end up in remote villages and made a point of eating every food put in front of them and appearing to relish it. Out of date I guess. New on SteveSailer dot Net: Ultra-woke U. of Colorado Anthropology Department fights two pushy Indians claiming to be victims of Pungent Odor Racism. What's the Real Story Here https://t.co/y9ZIPVFqx8 New on SteveSailer dot Net: Ultra-woke U. of Colorado Anthropology Department fights two pushy Indians claiming to be victims of Pungent Odor Racism. What's the Real Story Here"
X Link 2026-01-25T11:10Z 157.3K followers, 31.1K engagements

"Please post a link to this finding. Since [----] women and minorities who make up less than 10% of all pilots were factors in 66% of crashes caused by pilot error. Despite the disparity major airlines are continuing to hire on the basis of identity rather than merit. In January [----] Delta CLO Peter Carter said https://t.co/iSujvTpDFi Since [----] women and minorities who make up less than 10% of all pilots were factors in 66% of crashes caused by pilot error. Despite the disparity major airlines are continuing to hire on the basis of identity rather than merit. In January [----] Delta CLO Peter"
X Link 2026-01-26T17:17Z 157K followers, 60.4K engagements

"The importance of this Post op ed on DEI pilots does not lie in the percentage (a sample of [--] shouldn't be used to report percentages) but in the descriptions of specific crashes and near-crashes. Furthermore this is only the edge of terra incognita. Data are being buried and the problem predates DEI. In the mid-1990s I was visited by a Naval aviation officer involved in pilot selection and training. He had come to ask me if I could look do anything to call attention to the Navy's special treatment of female pilots. "We're killing people" he said not angrily but close to having tears in his"
X Link 2026-01-27T11:40Z 157.3K followers, 31.2K engagements

"Please read this if you saw the NYT piece and believed it. This response is detailed documented and definitive. Four years ago James Lee warned that the National Institutes of Health engaged in a policy of censorship that they were limiting the topics researchers could look into. Over the weekend the New York Times published a defense of doing just that: a call for censorship. The https://t.co/Xwwd3HzDy7 Four years ago James Lee warned that the National Institutes of Health engaged in a policy of censorship that they were limiting the topics researchers could look into. Over the weekend the"
X Link 2026-01-27T11:53Z 157.3K followers, 103.1K engagements

"Once upon a time the NYT had a pretty good science writer who could have handled this assignment. Nicholas Wade. @KirkegaardEmil @cremieuxrecueil The article wasn't written by an NYT Science section staffer but by a general purpose "investigative reporter" named Mike McIntire to covers stuff like the Blake Lively affair and Trump's tax returns. I suspect a Science staffer would have done a little better. @KirkegaardEmil @cremieuxrecueil The article wasn't written by an NYT Science section staffer but by a general purpose "investigative reporter" named Mike McIntire to covers stuff like the"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:21Z 156.2K followers, 16.7K engagements

"I just went to the Wikipedia page on Nicholas Wade to see if he has a Pulitzer (he doesn't). but Wikipedia's intro to his bio made me wonder what Grokipedia's bio was like. Here is one of the two"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:29Z 157.3K followers, 69K engagements

"And here is the other. No need to tell you which is which"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:29Z 157.3K followers, 21.1K engagements

"Will someone please tell me what the book is about Just as notable is the whining: "Writing this book cost me many important relationships severely took a toll on my mental and physical health and led to forms of isolation I wouldn't wish on anyone." Why do humanities academics talk like they work in a salt mine Just as notable is the whining: "Writing this book cost me many important relationships severely took a toll on my mental and physical health and led to forms of isolation I wouldn't wish on anyone." Why do humanities academics talk like they work in a salt mine"
X Link 2026-01-28T11:08Z 157.3K followers, 21.4K engagements

"@byrdshouse My impression is that the Scout/Snipers Delta and the Seals have done a good job of holding everyone to the same standard. Or am I being naive again"
X Link 2026-01-28T11:20Z 156.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Has Belichek ever been a hall of fame coach with a team that didn't include Tom Brady Between this and the Shedeur Sanders pro bowl selection NFL looking a bit like a joke these days Between this and the Shedeur Sanders pro bowl selection NFL looking a bit like a joke these days"
X Link 2026-01-28T13:33Z 157.3K followers, 28.3K engagements

"Lombardi had only [--] year as head coach of a team that didn't include Bart Starr. Belichick had [--] years as head coach on teams that didn't have Brady. So the question is unanswerable with Lombardi but at least subject to exploration for Belichick. No @charlesmurray Was Vince Lombardi a hall of fame coach with a team that didn't include Bart Starr Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor @charlesmurray Was Vince Lombardi a hall of fame coach with a team that didn't include Bart Starr Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor"
X Link 2026-01-28T14:25Z 157.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Nope. E.g. House. @3YearLetterman Dick Van Dyke did a better British accent than any foreigner has ever done an American accent https://t.co/GVnBPqp7DM @3YearLetterman Dick Van Dyke did a better British accent than any foreigner has ever done an American accent https://t.co/GVnBPqp7DM"
X Link 2026-01-28T20:05Z 157.3K followers, 16.7K engagements

"An important paper. Here's why it could generalize: It's hard to think a cognitive or emotional trait for which the current heritability estimates aren't contaminated by noise in the measure of the trait. There are exceptions for simple physiological traits such as height but think about all the noise in the measurement of the Big Five and yes cognitive ability. Question: have we any examples where a cleaner measure of the trait lowered the estimated relationship between genes and the trait I can't think of any but that doesn't mean there haven't been any. Our new paper on reassessing the"
X Link 2026-01-30T11:19Z 157.3K followers, 17.6K engagements

"I suspect most guys get the same sinking feeling in their own stomachs when they find themselves talking about their feelings ("Why am I doing this What's wrong with me"). I do anyway. the sinking feeling in your stomach when a man starts talking about his feelings and you know hell never arouse you again the sinking feeling in your stomach when a man starts talking about his feelings and you know hell never arouse you again"
X Link 2026-01-30T11:24Z 157.3K followers, 36K engagements

"@shycollie They set an awfully high bar. [--] and 96"
X Link 2026-01-30T11:38Z 157.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Cathy one of the two of you has definitely and jaw-droopingly evolved. It ain't @nfergus. New from me at @BulwarkOnline: New CBS pundit Niall Ferguson and his evolution into a Trump panegyrist https://t.co/8DbKRoSO9b New from me at @BulwarkOnline: New CBS pundit Niall Ferguson and his evolution into a Trump panegyrist https://t.co/8DbKRoSO9b"
X Link 2026-01-30T12:03Z 157K followers, [----] engagements

"Cathy one of the two of you has definitely and jaw-dropingly evolved. It ain't @nfergus. New from me at @BulwarkOnline: New CBS pundit Niall Ferguson and his evolution into a Trump panegyrist https://t.co/8DbKRoSO9b New from me at @BulwarkOnline: New CBS pundit Niall Ferguson and his evolution into a Trump panegyrist https://t.co/8DbKRoSO9b"
X Link 2026-01-30T12:13Z 157.3K followers, 111.2K engagements

"A reminder of how much we lost when Charles Krauthammer left us. @brithume Dr. Charles Krauthammer on Churchill: It is just a parlor game but since it only plays once every hundred years it is hard to resist. Person of the Century. Time magazine offered Albert Einstein an interesting and solid choice. Unfortunately it is wrong. The only possible @brithume Dr. Charles Krauthammer on Churchill: It is just a parlor game but since it only plays once every hundred years it is hard to resist. Person of the Century. Time magazine offered Albert Einstein an interesting and solid choice. Unfortunately"
X Link 2026-01-31T11:48Z 157.3K followers, 109K engagements

"But perhaps you can understand my guilty pleasure at seeing Ezra wrongly accused of the same sort of thing he wrongly accuses me of. I don't think @ezraklein is an apologist of white supremacist views and an accessory to genocidal state violence. https://t.co/e62YCWskYO I don't think @ezraklein is an apologist of white supremacist views and an accessory to genocidal state violence. https://t.co/e62YCWskYO"
X Link 2026-01-31T12:01Z 157.3K followers, 68.5K engagements

"This is the way I read Sowell too. Probably I should have worded the reason for cutting him some slack differently: When a person has been courageously right on so many big issues and has written some of the most brilliant analyses of the underlying forces driving political differences in our era you can't lump him in with standard public intellectuals. It's like going after Churchill for failure to condemn colonialism. @charlesmurray You have to read between the lines of Thomas Sowell but to me his take seems to be that while you can't control your IQ you can control your culture and that"
X Link 2026-01-31T12:41Z 157.3K followers, 28.3K engagements

"Here is how George Washington described himself when he took office: "The magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my Country called me.could not but overwhelm with dispondence one who inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpractised in the duties of civil administration ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies." After all what had he ever done to be proud of https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017949869760041111 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017949869760041111"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:15Z 157.3K followers, 31.4K engagements

"@croft1a East Isn't that unusual"
X Link 2026-02-01T20:08Z 157.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@croft1a You may be windblown. I'm freezing. The high temp in Burkittsville has been [--] C. for a couple of weeks without a break"
X Link 2026-02-02T11:27Z 157.3K followers, [--] engagements

"I also know something about this story and strongly endorse Rods advice. I have some expertise here. I know David & the full story. I also am divorced (my wife filed) & have had to take lots of abuse from ppl who dont know real story & who cant bec I owe it to the woman who divorced me & our kids to protect their privacy which includes the I have some expertise here. I know David & the full story. I also am divorced (my wife filed) & have had to take lots of abuse from ppl who dont know real story & who cant bec I owe it to the woman who divorced me & our kids to protect their privacy which"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:45Z 157.3K followers, 39.1K engagements

"@jpodhoretz I like your wording better than mine"
X Link 2026-02-02T20:25Z 157.3K followers, 14.7K engagements

"I wouldn't try to publicly exonerate myself if doing so would unavoidably cause pain to my ex-wife and my children with her. On the contrary doing so would be despicable. @charlesmurray Guilty people friends and relatives always say to withhold judgement. If the person won't exonerate themselves why should we believe they're not guilty @charlesmurray Guilty people friends and relatives always say to withhold judgement. If the person won't exonerate themselves why should we believe they're not guilty"
X Link 2026-02-02T20:37Z 157.3K followers, 22.8K engagements

"I hadn't thought of this when I wrote the post but you're right. Mismeasure of Man is indeed an example of pseudoscience about race and IQ written in the last half century. And a case can be made that Lewontin's Fallacy also qualifies as pseudoscience about race and IQ. The Mismeasure of Man W W Norton [----] @charlesmurray and almost everything based on the Standard Social Science Model (SSSM) before and after is 100% pseudoscience https://t.co/Mi2fAFzp8y The Mismeasure of Man W W Norton [----] @charlesmurray and almost everything based on the Standard Social Science Model (SSSM) before and"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:52Z 157.3K followers, 24.4K engagements

"Oh dear. I'm afraid you haven't kept abreast of the reanalysis of those skull measurements that Gould made fun of. @charlesmurray Dr. Gould spent most of the book criticizing traditional anthropological analysis. Before the age of computers and genomics scientists spent their time doing physical skull measurements. Some of those scientists exaggerated the degree or importance of physical differences. @charlesmurray Dr. Gould spent most of the book criticizing traditional anthropological analysis. Before the age of computers and genomics scientists spent their time doing physical skull"
X Link 2026-02-03T16:29Z 157.3K followers, 19.5K engagements

"Chinese classical. @charlesmurray When you say East Asian poetry do you mean Japanese haiku or Chinese classical poetry @charlesmurray When you say East Asian poetry do you mean Japanese haiku or Chinese classical poetry"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:31Z 157.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Well it's hard to know where to begin"
X Link 2017-03-05T00:39Z 157.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Saying yes to a student group's invitation to lecture = eagerly throwing myself into a volatile situation. Bullshit. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/us/politics/ann-coulter-university-of-california-berkeley.htmlhp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/us/politics/ann-coulter-university-of-california-berkeley.htmlhp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"
X Link 2017-04-27T14:21Z 157.5K followers, [----] engagements

"We knew how Citizen Trump had lived his life for [--] years when we voted. Everything President Trump has done is consistent with that record"
X Link 2017-05-17T02:15Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"The price Google pays for hiring extremely smart well-read people: Some of them cut through the bullshit. http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320/amp http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320/amp"
X Link 2017-08-05T22:43Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"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"
X Link 2017-09-06T02:07Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Harvard did itself proud. Attentive audience tough questions super-professional security. Congrats & thanks to @harvardfree"
X Link 2017-09-06T23:48Z 157.5K followers, [----] engagements

"It's hard to exaggerate how carefully the Founders examined the history of democracies & how clearly they saw the dangers. We've forgotten. https://x.com/nfergus/status/919474667748057088 Alexander Hamilton saw @realDonaldTrump coming: https://t.co/sPW1LRQbXG https://t.co/Lu1vlMNy8l https://x.com/nfergus/status/919474667748057088 Alexander Hamilton saw @realDonaldTrump coming: https://t.co/sPW1LRQbXG https://t.co/Lu1vlMNy8l"
X Link 2017-10-15T11:47Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"140 characters teach character. [---] characters teach slovenliness self-indulgence and every one of Aristotle's logical fallacies"
X Link 2017-11-01T00:11Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

"I've always wanted to write for a major magazine. https://x.com/ModeledBehavior/status/981963929307045888 So who should the Atlantic hire instead of Kevin Williamson https://x.com/ModeledBehavior/status/981963929307045888 So who should the Atlantic hire instead of Kevin Williamson"
X Link 2018-04-05T23:16Z 157.6K followers, [----] engagements

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