@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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"It doesn't always work that way (I'm a case in point) but it is extremely important for this evidence to be out there. https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-surprising-case-for-marrying-young https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-surprising-case-for-marrying-young"
X Link 2022-07-18T03:26Z 157.6K followers, [---] engagements

"3. Employers' problems are even worse in convenience stores and fast-food places. Finding employees who show up every day is tough. They are ecstatic to find an employee who is promotable--and to quickly move such employees into full-time work (or more) and promote them"
X Link 2025-07-08T19:02Z 157.6K followers, 215.5K 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

"1/4 I've come to think over the last [--] years that secular humanism has no moral bottom. Absent a core of absolutes of right and wrong anything can be rationalized. Absent some divine origin for those absolutes they cannot be absolutes. Time preference commons bias morality agency whatever you call it - religion achieves it. Now can we achieve it without a religion of falsehoods Time preference commons bias morality agency whatever you call it - religion achieves it. Now can we achieve it without a religion of falsehoods"
X Link 2022-12-14T13:06Z 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

"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

"Weve lived in our home for [--] years. Its a second skin. And Im supposed to accommodate generation Z A little patience is all it takes. Apartment buildings with elevators less square footage to clean no yard work professional maintenance etc seem ideal for Americas growing senior citizen population and youd free up inventory for young families who will actually use the space. Apartment buildings with elevators less square footage to clean no yard work professional maintenance etc seem ideal for Americas growing senior citizen population and youd free up inventory for young families who will"
X Link 2025-12-19T01:08Z 157.6K followers, 163.5K engagements

"I'm fascinated by the obsession with benefits not raw dollar income in the responses to my scenario for a young married working-class couple. I can understand it for a 50-year-old looking for a job. Not for a 25-year-old. The medical expenses incurred by the overwhelming majority of people in their 20s and 30s are as affordable as clothing. Of course there are exceptions. But the catastrophism in the mindset I'm seeing in the responses is bizarre. I know this is akin to a geezer yelling "get off my lawn" but in the 21st century we seem to be raising The Timorous Generation"
X Link 2025-07-08T12:14Z 157.6K followers, 721.8K 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

"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

"(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

"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, 330.4K 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

"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

"@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

"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

"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, 245.7K 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

"@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, 51.8K 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

"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

"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

"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, 36.8K 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

"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

"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, 201K 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, 184.7K 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

"Upon mature judgment as an experienced public policy analyst I propose that requiring day-care workers to have a college degree is to use the technical term batshit crazy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/all-opinions-are-local/wp/2018/05/22/d-c-s-degree-requirement-will-be-a-disaster-for-day-care-workers-and-parents/noredirect=on&utm_term=.2a37e59cb71a https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/all-opinions-are-local/wp/2018/05/22/d-c-s-degree-requirement-will-be-a-disaster-for-day-care-workers-and-parents/noredirect=on&utm_term=.2a37e59cb71a"
X Link 2018-05-25T15:40Z 151.7K followers, [---] engagements

"I would love to have a transcript of the job interviews"
X Link 2020-03-07T01:39Z 151.7K followers, [---] engagements

"1/4 A game to keep pontificators busy: Characterize the long-term effects of the plague (as I will call it imprecisely) while it's still near its beginning. Put yourself on record now exposing yourself to ridicule later. I'll go first"
X Link 2020-03-29T11:56Z 152.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Does anyone else have a sense that the trans/nonbinary stuff has made people on the right more comfortable even approving of plain old gays and lesbians A sort of "straights gays and lesbians are in this together" response to the craziness. No evidence. Just a feeling"
X Link 2022-07-12T21:37Z 151.7K followers, [---] engagements

"If you want to provoke people into asserting sweeping certitudes about why youre wrong dont criticize religion. Endorse it"
X Link 2022-12-14T18:38Z 156K followers, [---] engagements

"@JonahDispatch Someone should list the great movies that couldn't be made today. I'm not talking about going back to Birth of a Nation. Say from [----] on. Two columns: Couldn't be made because the woke would complain. Couldn't be made because Hollywood's creativity has flat-lined"
X Link 2023-01-15T09:05Z 152.3K followers, 15.5K engagements

"I should be more explicit about why I want people to post under their own names when economically feasible: We aren't doing anything wrong. We have nothing to be ashamed of. Using anonymity is what people do when they are doing something wrong or shameful. @charlesmurray Also I'm not hawking anything. I don't have a career related to the topics I post about on X or a book or podcast to promote and so on. There's really nothing personally to be gained from posting under my real name. @charlesmurray Also I'm not hawking anything. I don't have a career related to the topics I post about on X or"
X Link 2024-12-17T00:25Z 154.8K followers, 400.7K engagements

"In a reasonable world it would demarcate the bottom five percent from everyone else. In today's world its g-loading is I fear negligible. I have designed a one question IQ test. Are men stronger than women on average I have designed a one question IQ test. Are men stronger than women on average"
X Link 2025-01-11T23:19Z 152.3K followers, 22.5K engagements

"I can understand why something like evidence for race differences in IQ arouses passionate denunciations. But evidence for the geographic origins of the peoples who migrated to Europe (or India) It's interesting and admirable scholarship but I missed out on its relationship to white supremacism. Why is Wengrow so excited From the 1960s to about [----] leftists managed to suppress knowledge of the origins of the Indo-Europeans and their languages. Now they are trying to deny what advances in paleogentics have shown. https://t.co/SZxIyFqJqJ From the 1960s to about [----] leftists managed to"
X Link 2025-02-09T12:01Z 139.6K followers, 168.9K engagements

"One of the things that shocked me in a debate over a Universal Basic Income (I'm in favor) was my opponent's convincing demonstration that total benefits were already much greater than my proposal--including benefits for working-aged males. Take a close look at the benefit system before you push this argument too hard. That little black region at the bottom is the total wealth held by the bottom half of the US population. These are the people who are one paycheck away from disaster. Any metric of "goodness of economic system" with nonlinear weight on precarity or misery would rate this"
X Link 2025-02-09T16:30Z 139.5K followers, 35K engagements

"Dear Trump Administration is there any chance we can get we can have real showers again without committing a crime"
X Link 2025-02-11T16:34Z 139.6K followers, [----] engagements

"The idea is that lots of young men want to be part of elite combat units but didn't want to join the wussy military implied by previous ad campaigns. They are mindful decision-makers not mindless pawns. @charlesmurray The idea that all it takes is the right ad for the "return" of enlisting just confirms people are mindless pawns @charlesmurray The idea that all it takes is the right ad for the "return" of enlisting just confirms people are mindless pawns"
X Link 2025-02-12T12:19Z 139.9K followers, 19.1K engagements

"I haven't gotten much from Grok Claude or Openai so maybe @profjmb @BlanchardPhD or some other follower can help: I assume that most trans women who have had bottom surgery are sexually attracted to men. What percentage of autogynephilic men are sexually attracted to men What percentage of men with early onset gender dysphoria are sexually attracted to men"
X Link 2025-02-13T19:50Z 140K followers, 12.9K engagements

"Is the Overton Window wide enough to consider ending all federal funds to higher education Maybe we could start by cutting everything except the hard sciences. In effect go back to [----] involvement of the Feds with higher education. If you want to get the governments hands off higher ed a good first step would be to end government funding for colleges and universities. If you want to get the governments hands off higher ed a good first step would be to end government funding for colleges and universities"
X Link 2025-02-16T22:23Z 140.2K followers, 36K engagements

"@NotTheSame_Cord With respect it is hard to imagine anything more idiotic than to trust the government to define the most important basic scientific research. The one thing even more idiotic is to think that the government could identify and choose brilliant hedge fund managers"
X Link 2025-02-17T13:06Z 139.9K followers, [---] engagements

"@eyeslasho Do we have confidence in that audit"
X Link 2025-02-17T20:36Z 139.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Can we at least acknowledge that a database that produces these numbers is problematic Prima facie evidence of gross IT incompetence Even if there's an "explanation" What a sensible person would do in this case is ask someone at the Social Security Administration to explain what these numbers mean. Musk instead posts them with zero idea of what they represent and makes millions of people believe SS is going to millions of dead people. What a sensible person would do in this case is ask someone at the Social Security Administration to explain what these numbers mean. Musk instead posts them"
X Link 2025-02-17T22:58Z 155.9K followers, 27.4K engagements

"@JamesMcFee978 Never published anything. Is there anything useful in the book Yes but alongside ideologically-driven drivel"
X Link 2025-02-18T16:36Z 140K followers, [----] engagements

"It's a wonderful evocation of the function universities can serve and what went wrong. But how to save them I think a lot of tearing down has to happen before it will be possible to build up again"
X Link 2025-02-19T17:56Z 140.2K followers, 10K engagements

"I dont understand the change in voice over the last few months. Its pretty drastic. I dragged this idiot years ago and he's had me blocked ever since. He is the type of character who popped into prominence during George Floyd by trading on his identityhe wrote a book about himselffrom an "anti-identity politics" point of view. The Ibram Kendi of centrism. I dragged this idiot years ago and he's had me blocked ever since. He is the type of character who popped into prominence during George Floyd by trading on his identityhe wrote a book about himselffrom an "anti-identity politics" point of"
X Link 2025-02-21T18:00Z 140.2K followers, 210.3K engagements

"Okay my billionaire friends. $23m is pocket change And it would make me so happy. Dear die-hard hereditarians: it's time to put your time and money where your mouth is There is a unique opportunity on the market. Go ahead raise money and buy 23andMe which is currently trading at $23M. Sure it's a long shot and it's risky: there are some liabilities and it https://t.co/YjS7GR2WFX Dear die-hard hereditarians: it's time to put your time and money where your mouth is There is a unique opportunity on the market. Go ahead raise money and buy 23andMe which is currently trading at $23M. Sure it's a"
X Link 2025-03-24T21:36Z 155.1K followers, 50.5K engagements

"@Douglas_T @Sigdrifr Pretty close"
X Link 2025-05-28T21:43Z 154.2K followers, [---] engagements

"The Middlebury faculty member who held my elbow trying to get me through demonstrators to our car suffered torn neck tendons and a concussion that kept her out of commission for the rest of the term. That's the sequitur. @charlesmurray Time to retire. Complete non sequitur on your part. @charlesmurray Time to retire. Complete non sequitur on your part"
X Link 2025-07-04T22:04Z 154.2K followers, 23.2K engagements

"@MaskettaMale Finding a job in this economy is trivially easy. And has been for years"
X Link 2025-07-06T13:11Z 156K followers, 69.2K engagements

"(3) Their new combined income is $67600--less than before but still enough for a good life except in a few megalopolises. This is a completely realistic scenario and not even demanding (the husband could easily continue to work [--] hrs a week). And it's been done with jobs at convenience stores"
X Link 2025-07-06T18:45Z 154.8K followers, 2.8M engagements

"@professorofboot What kind of house The standard working class house of the 1950s or the size house that's now considered minimal"
X Link 2025-07-07T11:53Z 151.6K followers, 455K engagements

"Do you realize how many people with [---] on the SAT verbal couldnt get through an engineering major Not to mention the average social science/humanities graduates. More generally quick wit is usually associated with high IQ but being funny not so much. I know that IQ has predictive power I know that one IQ test correlates with another IQ test I accept that were pretty good at measuring intelligence and I agree that most IQ skepticism is just cope. But weve all known that guy who would never make it through an engineering I know that IQ has predictive power I know that one IQ test correlates"
X Link 2025-08-09T23:00Z 156.2K followers, 177.7K engagements

"Can anyone seriously dispute this I cant speak to anyone under the age of [--]. But if there is anyone who was a halfway prominent mainstream conservative TV pundit radio host columnist magazine writer think tanker etc. [--] years ago who now tells me they wouldnt have screamed about incipient socialism or I cant speak to anyone under the age of [--]. But if there is anyone who was a halfway prominent mainstream conservative TV pundit radio host columnist magazine writer think tanker etc. [--] years ago who now tells me they wouldnt have screamed about incipient socialism or"
X Link 2025-08-23T01:08Z 155.8K followers, 48.7K engagements

"Good point. Steve Pinker is always nuanced as in this example. But I wish he were more forceful. The constant drumbeat of accusations that racism accounts for disparities requires talking about B/W differences. @EPoe187 @JulianRhees @eweissunburied @AporiaMagazine @sapinker @NoahCarl90 @nathancofnas @charlesmurray To be fair to Pinker he writes in that chapter of the book that "don't go there" if adopted should be accompanied by colourblind policy -- implying perhaps that if the latter is not then the steelman argument becomes weaker. https://t.co/57f8mTzSqa @EPoe187 @JulianRhees"
X Link 2025-10-11T11:26Z 150.5K followers, 50.6K engagements

"I don't think I've ever posted anything that attracted so many cult-like responses. 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 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"
X Link 2025-10-12T11:16Z 151.8K followers, 53.8K engagements

"He left out Georgetown dinner parties. @charlesmurray Its why intellectuals like yourself end up destroying nations. You influence policy and we end up in chaos. Id say youre blind to the forces that have ripped western civilization apart for over a century now because you dont want to be called names by your friends at Harvard. @charlesmurray Its why intellectuals like yourself end up destroying nations. You influence policy and we end up in chaos. Id say youre blind to the forces that have ripped western civilization apart for over a century now because you dont want to be called names by"
X Link 2025-10-13T02:39Z 151K followers, 14.5K engagements

"I have a confession to make. Catherine and I have never been to a single solitary dinner party in Georgetown. @charlesmurray Ah yesGeorgetown dinner parties. Einstein suppressed the evidence of how they are the 5th most powerful force. @charlesmurray Ah yesGeorgetown dinner parties. Einstein suppressed the evidence of how they are the 5th most powerful force"
X Link 2025-10-13T03:28Z 151K followers, 11.5K engagements

"Here's how social science is supposed to work: Lots of thoughtfully planned analyses compared and contrasted clearly explained. The topic is the marriage premium (Do mens' incomes rise because they are married). Classic problem of attributing causality persuasively solved. https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/are-all-the-good-men-married https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/are-all-the-good-men-married"
X Link 2025-10-13T13:37Z 151.1K followers, [----] engagements

"The last two paragraphs (plus a concluding sentence) raise a way of thinking about the magnitude of the affirmative action preferences: Your own workplace. Consider the women blacks and Latinos who have been hired since you've worked there. What percentages of them would have been hired if there had been no thumb on the scale I've been working at home since [----]. But long ago in the 1970s I worked for a research organization that depended on government contracts. I was involved in the hiring decisions. I don't recall any women who were hired because they were women. I cannot recall any blacks"
X Link 2025-10-13T14:13Z 151K followers, 117.2K engagements

"This can be extended as Sam Huntington did in his last book Who Are We The percentage of ethnically non-British white colonists was minuscule. The American Experiment was British in its origins traditions political values and its version of the Enlightenment. You won't understand the American Experiment properly if you don't accept that historical fact. You will not understand the American Revolution properly if you don't realize that at the time of the Boston Tea Party practically everyone involved considered themselves Englishmen and loyal subjects of King George. https://t.co/i7Ei7rYYpY"
X Link 2025-10-14T11:34Z 151.4K followers, 124.1K engagements

"Last I heard Scotland and Ireland were part of Britain at the time of the Revolution. The size of the German population in the Delaware Valley is interesting and I wasn't aware of it. But as a percentage of the colonial population is my use of the word "minuscule" inappropriate @charlesmurray this is not entirely true. settlers to the Delaware valley were largely German and the English were a minority in the colony by the time the revolution broke out. likewise the Appalachian expansion drew heavily from Scotland and Ireland. @charlesmurray this is not entirely true. settlers to the Delaware"
X Link 2025-10-14T14:20Z 150.5K followers, 13.4K engagements

"You think people in the 19th century learned to read and write after 8th grade Take a look at the readings for the 5th McGuffey Reader (for grade 8). Shakespeare Byron Jefferson Webster etc. @charlesmurray Most did not continue beyond the eighth grade @charlesmurray Most did not continue beyond the eighth grade"
X Link 2025-10-14T17:32Z 150.9K followers, 71.1K engagements

"Much as I admire Reagan Maggie Thatcher is the closest to my ideal leader that Ive seen in my lifetime. Essential reading. We must all become Thatcherites all over again. Thats all there is to it. The Responsible Society - by @rcolvile for @CPSThinkTank https://t.co/3mZDgpREL5 Essential reading. We must all become Thatcherites all over again. Thats all there is to it. The Responsible Society - by @rcolvile for @CPSThinkTank https://t.co/3mZDgpREL5"
X Link 2025-10-16T11:52Z 150.5K followers, 19.3K engagements

"This is great. 😂 😂"
X Link 2025-10-16T12:27Z 150.5K followers, 17.7K engagements

"You're not worried about slippery-slope problem The evidence from the Netherlands and Canada sure worries me. This is a winning position in most states and Democrats should seize it. It's not only popular but it's the right thing to do. Recent polls show anywhere from 54% to 71% of Americans support physician-assisted suicide. This is a winning position in most states and Democrats should seize it. It's not only popular but it's the right thing to do. Recent polls show anywhere from 54% to 71% of Americans support physician-assisted suicide"
X Link 2025-10-16T12:41Z 151.3K followers, 63.7K engagements

"Amen. @SwipeWright @ConceptualJames There are two and only two sides it seems to me: those who affirm the profound inherent and equal dignity of each and every member of the human family and those who do not. Whether we label ourselves "conservative" (as I label myself) or something else is not of ultimate @SwipeWright @ConceptualJames There are two and only two sides it seems to me: those who affirm the profound inherent and equal dignity of each and every member of the human family and those who do not. Whether we label ourselves "conservative" (as I label myself) or something else is not"
X Link 2025-10-16T12:43Z 150.9K followers, 15K engagements

"Im confused. You mean like fight fight Do I get a handicap And just to be clear what are we fighting about https://t.co/Zoq2Q3kwsB https://t.co/Zoq2Q3kwsB"
X Link 2025-10-17T01:41Z 151.4K followers, 103.3K engagements

"I'm unhappy using the word "genius" as synonymous with high IQ. I like Galton's "triple event" for genius: ability zeal and the capacity for hard work. You are highly open to disagree @charlesmurray You are highly open to disagree @charlesmurray"
X Link 2025-10-17T11:34Z 151.1K followers, 42.8K engagements

"If I had the time and the energy this is the research project I would throw myself into. It would be a helluva lot of work but what fun. This provocative essay contains far-reaching hypotheses that academics should take seriously and test rigorously. Plenty of data exist. If the required dispassionate research cannot be undertaken at US universities it will lend credibility to the essays main claims. May This provocative essay contains far-reaching hypotheses that academics should take seriously and test rigorously. Plenty of data exist. If the required dispassionate research cannot be"
X Link 2025-10-18T11:30Z 150.9K followers, 35.3K engagements

"Im with Elizabeth. What could black-pilling mean on this context @october_cicada Oh man I've never had any but the most tenuous grasp on the whole red pill/black pill thing. I belatedly watched the whole movie to try to get it straight but no dice. I just looked it up on AI and it still doesn't make sense. What are you saying @october_cicada Oh man I've never had any but the most tenuous grasp on the whole red pill/black pill thing. I belatedly watched the whole movie to try to get it straight but no dice. I just looked it up on AI and it still doesn't make sense. What are you saying"
X Link 2025-10-18T14:56Z 150.9K followers, 17.1K engagements

"The old and out of touch charge is most accurate when it refers to The Matrix. I saw it and was put off by it. Probably not atypical for people born before [----]. @ElizabethKantor @october_cicada There is no red pill/black pill thing. I assume you mean The Matrix which used the red pill/blue pill plot device. Black pill is simply built on that common usage and refers to a nihilistic view that it doesn't matter which 'side' you take - all is hopeless so why bother @ElizabethKantor @october_cicada There is no red pill/black pill thing. I assume you mean The Matrix which used the red pill/blue"
X Link 2025-10-18T17:54Z 151K followers, 13K engagements

"A decade ago you would not have mistaken Charles Murray for a religious believer. Something changed. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/taking-religion-seriously-review-faith-from-finish-to-start-029052cast=3ys5oE https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/taking-religion-seriously-review-faith-from-finish-to-start-029052cast=3ys5oE"
X Link 2025-10-18T18:10Z 151.2K followers, 25.3K engagements

"@CogitateThis892 Don't know but there are no worries about confidentiality at this kind of thing so I don't see why it wouldn't be recorded and posted on the Hoover website. But I'm just speculating"
X Link 2025-10-19T21:32Z 151K followers, [---] engagements

"You haven't been paying attention to the evidence. @charlesmurray Krauthammer was a great man but his claim is backward. Of all explanations atheism is the most plausible. It assumes only what we can observe: matter energy and natural law. Every event ever studied follows those laws without exception. The burden of proof lies with anyone @charlesmurray Krauthammer was a great man but his claim is backward. Of all explanations atheism is the most plausible. It assumes only what we can observe: matter energy and natural law. Every event ever studied follows those laws without exception. The"
X Link 2025-10-20T01:44Z 151.3K followers, 31.2K engagements

"One of the most embarrassing things that ever happened to me was in [----] when I visited Hoover to give a lecture and Tom Sowell was wandering around the room taking pictures. But it had nothing to do with me. It was just Tom and his (very serious) hobby. @charlesmurray Great photo of Thomas Sowell I did not know he was a serious photographer. @charlesmurray Great photo of Thomas Sowell I did not know he was a serious photographer"
X Link 2025-10-20T01:46Z 151.3K followers, 27.4K engagements

"@avidseries @MattWalshBlog You must learn to resist the impulse to snark. Just pay the man a compliment and be done with it"
X Link 2025-10-20T01:49Z 151K followers, 11.6K engagements

"I'm not trying to bring people to God. I'm trying to think through truth claims. @charlesmurray As a pro-religious atheist I think that arguing truth claims probably isn't the best way to bring people to God. Religion makes people happier and healthier that is provable. Offer belief as a self-improvement project. Throw em into the deep side of pool right away: mystery. @charlesmurray As a pro-religious atheist I think that arguing truth claims probably isn't the best way to bring people to God. Religion makes people happier and healthier that is provable. Offer belief as a self-improvement"
X Link 2025-10-20T02:22Z 151.3K followers, 16.9K engagements

"Give me some indication that you've read my side of the story. As in read the book. If you have empirical testable and falsifiable evidence for an agent that operates outside of natural law present it. What you call "evidence"the origin of the universe the beginning of life consciousnessare not data points for a deity. They are gaps in our current If you have empirical testable and falsifiable evidence for an agent that operates outside of natural law present it. What you call "evidence"the origin of the universe the beginning of life consciousnessare not data points for a deity. They are"
X Link 2025-10-20T02:26Z 151.3K followers, 17.2K engagements

"As far as I can tell every physics-based cosmological explanation of the universe boils down to "Grant me an initial miracle and I'll explain everything after that." It is also true that invoking god as the explanation intrinsically forces one into the "it's turtles all the way down" problem. @kglightspire @charlesmurray Atheistic physicists have no problem dealing with the 'who created the universe' question. They simply deny that there's any problem. So why do you ask 'who created the creator' Both theists and atheists have the same problem. One doens't get to opt out 'because science.'"
X Link 2025-10-20T13:37Z 151.7K followers, 145.5K engagements

"@coelhellier Non sequitur"
X Link 2025-10-20T13:55Z 150.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@kettupoika A guy named Aristotle did too. Goes WAY back"
X Link 2025-10-20T18:50Z 151K followers, [----] engagements

"Jim Holt's Why Does the World Exist deals with the same topic. Read both admired both. Wasn't persuaded. @charlesmurray A book length explanation that required no "initial miracle". https://t.co/2TmM6bRej5 @charlesmurray A book length explanation that required no "initial miracle". https://t.co/2TmM6bRej5"
X Link 2025-10-20T18:57Z 151.4K followers, 13.2K engagements

"I really hope all that is true but I havent seen the evidence. Where do you suggest I look People who look at what's going on in Europe and assume the same thing is happening here are misinformed. The Muslim immigrants we get here in the US are overwhelmingly here legally tend to be educated and law-abiding and are more secular and interested in assimilating than People who look at what's going on in Europe and assume the same thing is happening here are misinformed. The Muslim immigrants we get here in the US are overwhelmingly here legally tend to be educated and law-abiding and are more"
X Link 2025-10-20T19:41Z 151.7K followers, 38.9K engagements

"I respond to this as Sam Johnson responded to George Berkeley. I leave it to you as an exercise. @RennanBarkana @charlesmurray Quantum mechanics does not require causation just things happening with probabilities. That's as good a bedrock as any since anything can happen including objects going through walls (recent Nobel) or apparently a zero energy universe (gravity is negative). @RennanBarkana @charlesmurray Quantum mechanics does not require causation just things happening with probabilities. That's as good a bedrock as any since anything can happen including objects going through walls"
X Link 2025-10-21T04:22Z 151.2K followers, 15.7K engagements

"The NY Post asked for a piece drawing from Taking Religion Seriously. I gave them one that I wasn't at all sure they would want but the Post not only published it as is but framed it beautifully. I'm gratified. https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/opinion/as-we-grow-out-of-intellectual-adolescence-religions-popularity-soars/ https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/opinion/as-we-grow-out-of-intellectual-adolescence-religions-popularity-soars/ https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/opinion/as-we-grow-out-of-intellectual-adolescence-religions-popularity-soars/"
X Link 2025-10-21T12:52Z 151.6K followers, [----] engagements

"This is what worries me. This description certainly corresponds to what's happened in American cities where the Muslim population has become large. @charlesmurray The thing is most of the time Islam is in sleeper mode in a host nation. https://t.co/gaU9B2zPWv @charlesmurray The thing is most of the time Islam is in sleeper mode in a host nation. https://t.co/gaU9B2zPWv"
X Link 2025-10-21T13:08Z 151.7K followers, 31K engagements

"I got lots of pushback invoking quantum physics on the Mystery behind the existence of the universe. Rather than respond to the responses individually here is a passage from Stephen Meyer's "Return of the God Hypothesis" that expresses my position better than I can"
X Link 2025-10-21T13:15Z 151.7K followers, 17.1K engagements

"Given that the east wing is the site of the First Ladys staff perhaps your undeniably graphic image is inappropriately appropriate. From a politesse POV. The White House grabbed by the pussy https://t.co/PrRUNmYfdD The White House grabbed by the pussy https://t.co/PrRUNmYfdD"
X Link 2025-10-23T12:50Z 151.3K followers, 10.2K engagements

"So can I. I also lack the patience to watch a game all the way through. Is this typical fellow geezers I can sort of feel the sports fandom leaving my body as I get older I can sort of feel the sports fandom leaving my body as I get older"
X Link 2025-10-24T14:30Z 151.7K followers, 42.4K engagements

"Predictive validity is everything for a firm like Herasight. Understanding causality is nice but not necessarily relevant. @paulnovosad @herasight Herasight's results are clear: their PGS has strong predictive validity within family which means it can be used for effective embryo selection. The white paper details generally positive effects on other outcomes including psychological outcomes and cardiometabolic disease. It @paulnovosad @herasight Herasight's results are clear: their PGS has strong predictive validity within family which means it can be used for effective embryo selection. The"
X Link 2025-10-24T16:08Z 151.7K followers, [----] engagements

"It was long--100 minutes--and as much fun as any conversation I've had about the book. Michael's approach to intellectual disputes is exemplary--that is without confrontation straw men or snark and with lots of good humor. https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/charles-murray-why-im-taking-religion-seriously/ https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/charles-murray-why-im-taking-religion-seriously/"
X Link 2025-10-25T21:43Z 151.7K followers, 40.2K engagements

"Odd. I've lived among Christians for all my life and have never personally met a single one who fits your description. Zero. And yet you've run into a plethora of them. You should consider moving. @GCon57 @JanJekielek @charlesmurray I have run into a plethora of people who believe every word of the Bible including supernatural things. They are very judgemental. They believe in the devil and believe bad behavior is the result of Satan rather than psychological problems or just bad because they are immoral. @GCon57 @JanJekielek @charlesmurray I have run into a plethora of people who believe"
X Link 2025-10-25T21:57Z 151.7K followers, 52.4K engagements

"Am I wrong in thinking that he was reading Chesterton in his last days @charlesmurray Not everyone can have the balls and integrity of Chris Hitchens who went to his grave sticking to his reasoned beliefs. @charlesmurray Not everyone can have the balls and integrity of Chris Hitchens who went to his grave sticking to his reasoned beliefs"
X Link 2025-10-25T22:57Z 151.7K followers, 27K engagements

"The technical term is Fatuous Tail. The most common reason given in my replies for choosing a charisma pill over an IQ pill is Im already [---] IQ so dont need any more IQ. Its amazing how many random people online happen to have a [---] IQ. The most common reason given in my replies for choosing a charisma pill over an IQ pill is Im already [---] IQ so dont need any more IQ. Its amazing how many random people online happen to have a [---] IQ"
X Link 2025-10-26T12:38Z 151.7K followers, 18.4K engagements

"Fact: these findings correspond exactly to the results that the orthodoxy approves. Appropriate response: examine the Methods section carefully with special attention to the operational definitions sample characteristics and instruments. Im not saying that this study is bad just that in the current environment such a careful reading is obligatory. Too many mediocre men talk over capable women. Study of problem-solving teams: Men dominate the conversation taking 50% more turns and saying 69% more than women. Men with low skill speak more than women with high skill. It's long past time to value"
X Link 2025-10-26T13:07Z 151.7K followers, 51.6K engagements

"Is anyone willing to contest this empirically It has a lot of face validity in my experience. "Put more simply men are relatively more interested in advancing what is empirically correct and women are relatively more interested in advancing what is morally desirable." (The quote is of course referring to average tendencies--not the preferences of every group member) "Put more simply men are relatively more interested in advancing what is empirically correct and women are relatively more interested in advancing what is morally desirable." (The quote is of course referring to average"
X Link 2025-10-26T13:49Z 151.9K followers, 37.5K engagements

"I fear you have never had the pleasure of eating sticky rice. For example one of the finest desserts in the world is Thai mango with sticky rice cooked in coconut milk. @politicalmath Rice makes no sense to eat with your hands. Like none. @politicalmath Rice makes no sense to eat with your hands. Like none"
X Link 2025-10-26T14:51Z 152.2K followers, 12.5K engagements

"Just went to Amazon. They say the hardcover will be delivered Nov [--] to Dec [--]. It's hard to convey how frustrating this is for authors but it's a perennial complaint: Publishers and booksellers are slow to respond to demand. @charlesmurray @BNBuzz Is there a reason this book is unavailable Even online https://t.co/hnUQga2nOv @charlesmurray @BNBuzz Is there a reason this book is unavailable Even online https://t.co/hnUQga2nOv"
X Link 2025-10-26T18:46Z 151.9K followers, 12.6K engagements

"Unless you're a Steve Pinker or Arthur Brooks there's no such thing as a book tour anymore. Thank heavens. Robert Bork used to compare them to the Bataan Death March. A little excessive perhaps but they are exhausting. Also do you know how tired one gets of one's own voice after saying the same thing a few hundred times"
X Link 2025-10-26T20:50Z 151.6K followers, [---] engagements

"@avidseries Ive known many literalists. But none has been mean and some have been the kindest most generous people Ive ever known. And not just for members of the tribe"
X Link 2025-10-26T23:06Z 151.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@avidseries Serious question: would going public really cause that much damage"
X Link 2025-10-27T17:12Z 151.6K followers, [----] engagements

"For sticky rice and mango people often do use spoons. For laab som tam and many other Isaam dishes you make a pocket in a ball of sticky rice with your thumb and pick up the food by squeezing the rice around it. SOP in the Northeast. Go eat in some restaurants near the boxing stadium and watch your fellow diners. @charlesmurray Lived in Bangkok for a year. Never saw anyone eat sticky rice with their hands. @charlesmurray Lived in Bangkok for a year. Never saw anyone eat sticky rice with their hands"
X Link 2025-10-27T17:40Z 151.8K followers, 13.8K engagements

"@susanpenhaligon Judging from your X picture and this post lucky is any man who had a chance to grow old with you. And miserable is any man who had the chance and didn't take it"
X Link 2025-10-27T23:18Z 152K followers, 195.8K engagements

"@byrdshouse @JamesDunn9 Alas Mr. Dunn is under the illusion that living in Bangkok is living in Thailand"
X Link 2025-10-27T23:35Z 151.6K followers, [---] engagements

""Oh please" Uncharacteristically dismissive Steve. Fair's fair--put Jerry Coyne's take alongside this excerpt from an email I received from Alexander Batthyany the author of Threshold the book-length treatment of terminal lucidity regarding the Psychology Today article suggesting that the success of Zolpidem in related cases might indicate that within-the-brain mechanisms explain TL: The articles main argument seems to reflect a perspective that does not fully account for the current understanding of the neuroscience of dementia and related neurocognitive conditions in which terminal lucidity"
X Link 2025-10-28T16:51Z 152.2K followers, 29.1K engagements

"End of excerpt. The ball's in your court. Why is Batthyany wrong"
X Link 2025-10-28T16:51Z 151.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@dash_eats you figure out a topic and I'm game"
X Link 2025-10-28T18:11Z 151.7K followers, [----] engagements

"We get along very well BTW and are on the same wavelength on most topics. On this one I suspect Steve is more uncritical of the Enlightenment than I am. Along with William James I think scientism is a problem. @charlesmurray I enjoy observing @charlesmurray and @sapinker argue. I have read at least four of CMs books and three of SAPs book find their thinking and writing quite enlightening. I think you can neither prove nor disprove existence of god. @charlesmurray I enjoy observing @charlesmurray and @sapinker argue. I have read at least four of CMs books and three of SAPs book find their"
X Link 2025-10-28T18:18Z 151.9K followers, 11.1K engagements

"Im amazed that the New Yorker printed this. This is an interview that should inspire some follow-up reporting: how was KJP hired for her job in the first place https://t.co/Jxady8tuel This is an interview that should inspire some follow-up reporting: how was KJP hired for her job in the first place https://t.co/Jxady8tuel"
X Link 2025-10-29T02:14Z 151.7K followers, 63.5K engagements

"Just looked up my bio on Grokipedia. Wow. Several thousand words. Just skimmed but didnt see any obvious howlers or bias. I did notice an extremely obscure and correct factoid that I thought wouldnt be known by anyone but me by this timethat I was awarded a Harvard scholarship. It was honorary just a hundred bucks for the freshman year. Cant recall ever mentioning it outside the family"
X Link 2025-10-29T15:46Z 151.8K followers, 39.8K engagements

"This is a worthy effort. The review of Antietam Battlefield is especially helpful. In my biased opinion. https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/10/27/the_road_to_rediscovering_america_putting_civic_education_on_the_map_1143642.html https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/10/27/the_road_to_rediscovering_america_putting_civic_education_on_the_map_1143642.html"
X Link 2025-10-29T18:12Z 151.7K followers, [----] engagements

"And my response will appear Friday I assume"
X Link 2025-10-30T02:26Z 151.8K followers, 24K engagements

"His mystifying letter. I'm sure Prof. @sapinker very aggressive letter disputing (I'm sure he thinks eviserating) @charlesmurray claims make him feel super smart. He is still wrong but he is too bright to see it. https://t.co/cRxUFAu72G I'm sure Prof. @sapinker very aggressive letter disputing (I'm sure he thinks eviserating) @charlesmurray claims make him feel super smart. He is still wrong but he is too bright to see it. https://t.co/cRxUFAu72G"
X Link 2025-10-30T02:33Z 151.8K followers, 19K engagements

"Babylon Bee has hijacked The Harvard Crimson website. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/30/students-react-grading-report/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/30/students-react-grading-report/"
X Link 2025-10-30T10:50Z 151.9K followers, 48.9K engagements

"@CyHollander Google thinks it's "a brief or trivial item of news or information" as I always have. What dictionary are you using"
X Link 2025-10-30T18:14Z 151.8K followers, [---] engagements

"My response to Steve Pinker's letter to the Wall Street Journal is online. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/pinker-whiffs-at-my-case-for-the-human-soul-charles-murray-evidence-religion-6c9c8b55st=fF2xuU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink https://www.wsj.com/opinion/pinker-whiffs-at-my-case-for-the-human-soul-charles-murray-evidence-religion-6c9c8b55st=fF2xuU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"
X Link 2025-10-31T20:50Z 151.9K followers, 19.3K engagements

"@micmicmic1 @sapinker He called me Mr. Murray and I called him Mr. Pinker. "Mr." is an honorable honorific"
X Link 2025-10-31T21:55Z 151.7K followers, [----] engagements

"I strongly favor US support for Ukraine but European governments have been criminally slow to recognize that Europe must prepare to defend itself without US help. We (the US) are no longer a reliable ally. That's the recent and probably future reality. Thus beginneth and endeth my excursion into foreign policy for calendar [----]. @UkraineSol Theres always vein of reluctance to get involved in another European war running through US society. They are within their rights to point out Europe as a combined force is more than strong enough to defend itself against Russia. The USA has enough"
X Link 2025-11-03T22:08Z 152.3K followers, 18.8K engagements

"Mainline Protestant churches (Presbyterians Methodists Lutherans etc) stopped preaching Christianity and preached social activism instead. That tends to depress Christians' interest in attending them. Just a crazy hypothesis. For basically all Western countries I've seen data indicating that Protestantism is declining much more rapidly than Catholicism. Any reasons why In the US for example Catholics have been at around 1/4 of the population for a while. For basically all Western countries I've seen data indicating that Protestantism is declining much more rapidly than Catholicism. Any"
X Link 2025-11-04T16:57Z 152.3K followers, 168.1K engagements

"This is the author of Threshold commenting on Steve Pinker's rejoinder to my response to Pinker's original column. Batthyany also wrote a letter to WSJ on the original column not published by WSJ that I will put in a separate post. @sapinker Steven Pinker quotes one sentence from the introduction of my book yet curiously omits that I also explain in the very same section what the book additionally contains: (1) data (such as Batthyny & Greyson 2021) (2) case reports (3) an overview of studies and https://t.co/4Frsvtffou @sapinker Steven Pinker quotes one sentence from the introduction of my"
X Link 2025-11-04T22:25Z 152.8K followers, 17.3K engagements

"I am distressed to learn that @grok is ignorant of the takedown of the Hidden Figures story that we posted at http://hiddenfigurescritique.com http://hiddenfigurescritique.com"
X Link 2025-11-05T19:56Z 152.9K followers, 92.2K engagements

"@GeneSmi96946389 What article is the graph from"
X Link 2025-11-05T20:29Z 151.9K followers, [----] engagements

"The more you learn about terminal lucidity the more interesting it becomes. None of the counters I have read directly confront the available data. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/setting-the-terminal-lucidity-record-straight-murray-pinker-3e9d649dst=NGSTGM https://www.wsj.com/opinion/setting-the-terminal-lucidity-record-straight-murray-pinker-3e9d649dst=NGSTGM"
X Link 2025-11-05T21:02Z 152.8K followers, 17K engagements

"A university sufficiently progressive is indistinguishable from a lunatic asylum. I'm constantly amazed & confused by the use of ad-hominemson public platformsby academics. Especially when it's a philosopher I try to understand the motivation and provide a bit of feedback via email. It generally fails as it did here spectacularly. Today's example is from https://t.co/eSfQWaWBd2 I'm constantly amazed & confused by the use of ad-hominemson public platformsby academics. Especially when it's a philosopher I try to understand the motivation and provide a bit of feedback via email. It generally"
X Link 2025-11-06T12:31Z 152.5K followers, 39.1K engagements

"@rjhaier Well NYT had a fine arts MA review Human Diversity. But maybe The Atlantic will use anthropologists. Whether that would be an improvement is open to question I guess"
X Link 2025-11-07T00:21Z 152.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Bless you. That's been my thought for years. All Dick and I needed was reading comprehension. A simple thing to ask. @charlesmurray @aaronnotcringey Honestly it seems to me that many critics of "The Bell Curve" simply flunked reading comprehension. The allegations of "eugenic pseudo-science" etc. have nothing to do with what's actually in the book. @charlesmurray @aaronnotcringey Honestly it seems to me that many critics of "The Bell Curve" simply flunked reading comprehension. The allegations of "eugenic pseudo-science" etc. have nothing to do with what's actually in the book"
X Link 2025-11-07T02:47Z 152.3K followers, 15.2K engagements

"I wasn't referring specifically to this event (although it seems pretty discrediting to me). @dimavrid @PatriarchTree @charlesmurray This discussion of Goulds reanalysis of Mortons work isnt flattering especially in light of Goulds recognition that we all have biases/preferences but we can still treat data fairly (objectively). But its quite a stretch to say this was discrediting https://t.co/vQZJcLAFm1 @dimavrid @PatriarchTree @charlesmurray This discussion of Goulds reanalysis of Mortons work isnt flattering especially in light of Goulds recognition that we all have biases/preferences but"
X Link 2025-11-07T13:53Z 152.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Amazon is giving a December delivery date for Taking Religion Seriously. Encounter Books tells me that they have plenty of copies on hand to send to Amazon if Amazon will just order them. I'm working hard at suppressing my conspiratorial thoughts. @charlesmurray Did NOT know you released a new book Lucky I saw this tweet book ordered now I have to wait till December @charlesmurray Did NOT know you released a new book Lucky I saw this tweet book ordered now I have to wait till December"
X Link 2025-11-07T13:58Z 152.9K followers, 14.1K engagements

"I'm willing to believe the SAT has become more coachable in this century. I'd like to see some good data on how much. Is the SAT an intelligence test like an IQ test "Can the SAT be coached Yes but it is not easy. Everyone who looks into this topic immediately hears about students who gained [---] [---] or [---] points on the SAT after a few hours of coaching. The tales may even be true but https://t.co/ip5W3QUyR9 Is the SAT an intelligence test like an IQ test "Can the SAT be coached Yes but it is not easy. Everyone who looks into this topic immediately hears about students who gained [---] [---] or"
X Link 2025-11-08T01:53Z 152.3K followers, 49.8K engagements

"If you're going to put these quotes out to the public you must know where they came from. List the sources I'll look them up and get back to you. @charlesmurray I dunno man I think there's a bit more to the controversy than Watson simply following the science when it comes to race-IQ https://t.co/hHutHvIFv8 @charlesmurray I dunno man I think there's a bit more to the controversy than Watson simply following the science when it comes to race-IQ https://t.co/hHutHvIFv8"
X Link 2025-11-08T02:55Z 152.8K followers, 17.8K engagements

"Link please. @charlesmurray To be clear that's not my page. I am simply noting he had an apparent habit of making trolly statements. And that page does list sources for each statement. @charlesmurray To be clear that's not my page. I am simply noting he had an apparent habit of making trolly statements. And that page does list sources for each statement"
X Link 2025-11-08T03:01Z 152.3K followers, 10.6K engagements

"@the_sigh_op2 Tell me where the Wordpress page is please"
X Link 2025-11-08T03:19Z 152.3K followers, [---] engagements

"All I ask is a spreadsheet with actual data of pre coaching score post coaching score date began coaching duration of coaching including students who stopped and never took a post coaching test. I can't work with reminiscences of a [--] year career. I'm not accusing you of lying. I'm saying your words are uninterpretable. @charlesmurray So I know more about this than anyone else. Ive been a 1:1 private SAT coach in posh Beverly Hills for over [--] yearsworked one-on-one with about [---] students I routinely increase students score by 250-300 points. This entails about a year of study with [--] hours"
X Link 2025-11-08T03:24Z 152.3K followers, 30.7K engagements

"I'll rephrase my position: I still am really really eager to see recent systematic interpretable data on coaching (as we got in some articles in the 1980s and 1990s but not to my knowledge for the current version of the SAT). And I am persuaded that you are a helluva good SAT coach. @charlesmurray Just yesterday a student Ive been working with for about [--] months got her psat results back. She got an [----]. She was quite happy bc shed gotten a [---] the year before. I understand your lament but what you asked for is impossibleYoud need all the students scores from @charlesmurray Just yesterday a"
X Link 2025-11-08T12:20Z 152.3K followers, 17.5K engagements

"I went back and found them and your summary seems about right (for example the source is a tweet in which the tweeter asserts what Watson said). In others like the "a little antisemitism" quote the context makes a difference. In that specific case the full quote is "Watson [--] who lives in Cold Harbor N.Y. tells Esquire magazine in its January edition that anti-Semitism in some circumstances is justified. In an interview profile for the magazine Watson asks rhetorically 'Should you be allowed to make an anti-Semitic remark' He answered: 'Yes because some anti-Semitism is justified. Just like"
X Link 2025-11-08T12:35Z 152.3K followers, 13.3K engagements

"I'm not asking 1:1 tutors to do anything. I'm asking scholars to conduct rigorous research on the coachability of the current SAT. We need it. Why Because I believe the current SAT should be discarded altogether and replaced with achievement tests. High coachability would appropriately discredit the SAT. https://www.aei.org/articles/abolish-the-sat-2/ https://www.aei.org/articles/abolish-the-sat-2/"
X Link 2025-11-08T13:28Z 152.3K followers, [---] engagements

"What a change since [----]. I can't imagine writing an article this long now. But until I reread it a few minutes ago for the first time in many years I hadn't remembered it as being particularly long. I guess it's not only readers' attention spans that have shrunk. https://www.aei.org/articles/abolish-the-sat-2/ https://www.aei.org/articles/abolish-the-sat-2/"
X Link 2025-11-08T13:42Z 152.8K followers, 18.4K engagements

"Dear @Airbnb and @vrbo hosts who feel strongly about protecting the climate: Just so you know the best way to ensure a guest never books with you again is to set the maximum shower temperature at lukewarm. Sincerely yours Shivering Near Harvard Square"
X Link 2025-11-09T13:14Z 152.9K followers, [----] engagements

"@bmasters46 NA were of Asian origin several thousand years ago. A lot of changes in standing variation can have occurred between then and now so we shouldn't expect cognitive functioning to have developed the same way for contemporary East Asians and American Indians"
X Link 2025-11-09T16:35Z 152.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@byrdshouse Hey @mikenelson586 do you have any experience organizing interventions for retired action junkies Asking for a friend"
X Link 2025-11-09T19:20Z 152.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Grok is my preferred AI but it is not yet perfect. Grok: Be advised: I am chummy with Emil and Bo (well except that I've met Emil only once and Bo never). I haven't disavowed them. And I have yet to read anything by either that indicates they are white supremacists. Serena take deep breaths. @charlesmurray @grok Apparently Grok doesn't know you are chummy with neo-Nazis Emil Kirkegaard and Bo Winegard: "Murray's work has been co-opted by actual white supremacists but he disavows them." @charlesmurray @grok Apparently Grok doesn't know you are chummy with neo-Nazis Emil Kirkegaard and Bo"
X Link 2025-11-10T03:01Z 152.4K followers, 19.7K engagements

"This interview for gnxp (which I had completely forgotten about) is a good summary of where I stood as of [----] on many issues including religion. It turns out that I was a starry-eyed optimist on genes and race in light of what happened after [----]. @HHIDavidson @lapalmedesmers @charlesmurray I think it's more learning as he went along that some of what he had been taught was politically correct but wrong. Policy makers need to deal in reality. https://t.co/NKzQeg09ct https://t.co/2PFe3m7Mv6 @HHIDavidson @lapalmedesmers @charlesmurray I think it's more learning as he went along that some of"
X Link 2025-11-10T12:52Z 152.8K followers, [----] engagements

"Id love to do Joe Rogan. But the line is pretty long. @charlesmurray @Robmontz I just finished your book. a) I have a million questions. b) You're about the only one I'd trust on this particular journey. c) Have you considered an interview with Joe Rogan I'd actually watch all [--] hours of that. @charlesmurray @Robmontz I just finished your book. a) I have a million questions. b) You're about the only one I'd trust on this particular journey. c) Have you considered an interview with Joe Rogan I'd actually watch all [--] hours of that"
X Link 2025-11-11T02:29Z 153.1K followers, 33.9K engagements

"I'm was on season [--] episode [--] of For All Mankind last night and left halfway through the episode because I was bored. In the middle of the night I woke up and realized why: It's a chick flick. Our Apollo book was all about male sensibility (though it had a female coauthor). For All Mankind is all about female sensibility (though it has lots of men involved in cast and production). @herandrews is right: a great deal of what superficially seems Woke is at bottom feminization"
X Link 2025-11-11T20:23Z 154K followers, 16.7K engagements

"Mickey Segal didn't wrap it up. Alexander Batthyany the leading authority on terminal lucidity wrapped it up. I don't have the link but I have the text of his letter. Read Segal and Batthyany side by side and decide for yourself"
X Link 2025-11-11T22:28Z 152.9K followers, 13.3K engagements

"Cancel your own damn subscription. Hed return the favor Hed return the favor"
X Link 2025-11-13T23:53Z 152.9K followers, 14.1K engagements

"This is wonderful. JOHN STEINBECK wrote some classic American novels and he also penned this brilliant letter to MARILYN MONROE in [----]. https://t.co/HcRZilGLAZ JOHN STEINBECK wrote some classic American novels and he also penned this brilliant letter to MARILYN MONROE in [----]. https://t.co/HcRZilGLAZ"
X Link 2025-11-14T03:03Z 153.5K followers, 137.4K engagements

"You seem like a good person to ask: There are scientific reasons to understand the genetic etiology (if thats the right word) for human traits. But in the applied world what matters besides predictive validity @cremieuxrecueil I very much doubt phenotyping is the explanation for BMI results differences. Reliability of FI in UKB is [---]. If we inflate WGS h2 to a very reliable measure (0.9) this would inflate the WGS h2 estimate to 1.5*0.328=0.492. That's close to the lower end of twin estimates but @cremieuxrecueil I very much doubt phenotyping is the explanation for BMI results differences."
X Link 2025-11-14T03:08Z 152.9K followers, 12.4K engagements

"Ahem. Maytag designed their washers to last forever. And Im proud to say that my father was a significant part of that. @charlesmurray And everyone knew how to change their oil and fix the dryer when it broke. Planned obsolescence was not as carefully planned. Not only to today's youth lack the skills and the skills for learning skills but today's appliances/cars and homes may not be repairable. Big diff @charlesmurray And everyone knew how to change their oil and fix the dryer when it broke. Planned obsolescence was not as carefully planned. Not only to today's youth lack the skills and the"
X Link 2025-11-14T03:19Z 154.4K followers, 16.7K engagements

"Im not talking about GMs or Fords. Im talking about Maytag washing machines. @charlesmurray Hold on a minute. A car made in the 50s and 60s was shot after [------] miles. In the northern US or Canada the body was starting to rust out after only [--]. My [----] Sienna has [------] miles and is barely broken in. I expect to get another 5-10 years out of it. @charlesmurray Hold on a minute. A car made in the 50s and 60s was shot after [------] miles. In the northern US or Canada the body was starting to rust out after only [--]. My [----] Sienna has [------] miles and is barely broken in. I expect to get another"
X Link 2025-11-14T03:48Z 154.4K followers, 20.1K engagements

"@Pogojar @tbmichael @TopAlliedAceWW1 I can't vouch for Maytags since around 2000"
X Link 2025-11-14T13:18Z 153.5K followers, [--] engagements

"Picked up my new Tesla Y today. Put it in FSB. Drove me [--] miles home through heavy traffic at the flow of traffic better than I have ever driven [--] miles in my life. Wow. Just wow"
X Link 2025-11-14T17:55Z 153.9K followers, 970.6K engagements

"@RickyBobWeaver @RBrookhiser Correct. A town where Fred Maytag II lived two doors down from the county sheriff a block from a Maytag assembly line worker and none of the Maytag senior executives would buy Cadillacs because that would be showing off"
X Link 2025-11-14T18:41Z 154.4K followers, [---] engagements

"I have a piece coming out in the Sunday Washington Post that's already online. The people who follow me on X get a shout-out in the opening sentence. This bypasses the pay wall: https://wapo.st/47RR4ok https://wapo.st/47RR4ok"
X Link 2025-11-14T18:46Z 154.5K followers, 36.7K engagements

"Another thing about Tesla: No salesmen. Tesla showrooms have staff to explain stuff but you buy a Tesla online. No bargaining no gamesmanship with your trade-in. The prices are nonnegotiable. As for trade-ins Tesla says explicitly that its offers (also nonnegotiable) are usually not as high as you could get from a used-car website. The purchase experience is so transparent and trouble-free that you wonder why every car company in the world hasn't adopted it. Picked up my new Tesla Y today. Put it in FSB. Drove me [--] miles home through heavy traffic at the flow of traffic better than I have"
X Link 2025-11-14T21:23Z 153.4K followers, 540.2K engagements

"EO Wilson "Communism is a great idea.wrong species" Jimmy Carr https://t.co/45008EuGje "Communism is a great idea.wrong species" Jimmy Carr https://t.co/45008EuGje"
X Link 2025-11-15T03:06Z 153.2K followers, 24.2K engagements

"So being really boring doesnt bother you. Sorry. Im a philistine. If pressed I would say my favorite author is Chekov. A doctor who observed people closely took his experiences in tried to tell us something about what human beings are. He wrote mainly short stories/novellas. A courtesy to readers - who dont have time for [----] pages. https://t.co/My4GApMIZ5 If pressed I would say my favorite author is Chekov. A doctor who observed people closely took his experiences in tried to tell us something about what human beings are. He wrote mainly short stories/novellas. A courtesy to readers - who"
X Link 2025-11-15T03:07Z 153.2K followers, 178.1K engagements

"Under supervised FSD I am appropriately liable. I'm the person who failed to act if FSD goofed. The only thing to be litigated is whether it was possible to have reacted in time. @charlesmurray But if it does goof you're still liable. Until Tesla is liable for any goofs I don't see the point in using it. I feel like you could end up in jail for manslaughter. I guess if that was happening we'd hear headline stories. @charlesmurray But if it does goof you're still liable. Until Tesla is liable for any goofs I don't see the point in using it. I feel like you could end up in jail for"
X Link 2025-11-15T19:19Z 153.3K followers, 11.6K engagements

"Okay okay I'll confess. I saw a Chekov play once and was really bored. Can't remember what it was. That was the entire basis for my post. Also I can't recall reading anything else Chekov wrote. So it's much worse than you thought. I'm a flippant philistine. @FischerKing64 You are right. @charlesmurray has a blind spot. The worst of course is not knowing he has one. I accept that there are book I don't get yet. For the first [--] years of my life e.g. I despised Faulkner. Read Light in August this year. I finally saw it was profound and moving. @FischerKing64 You are right. @charlesmurray has a"
X Link 2025-11-16T22:11Z 153.5K followers, 17.1K engagements

"I wish Id read this when I was [--]. May I meet you https://t.co/XJ1rBT8lYs May I meet you https://t.co/XJ1rBT8lYs"
X Link 2025-11-16T23:47Z 153.5K followers, 56.9K engagements

"The Grok answer is pretty damn impressive. Two books on intelligence published in [----] @rexjung https://t.co/5OsxtVxc2a Two books on intelligence published in [----] @rexjung https://t.co/5OsxtVxc2a"
X Link 2025-11-16T23:57Z 152.9K followers, 20.9K engagements

"Fun fact: Alexander Hamilton wrote the Federalist Papers while wintering at Valley Forge. "Fred DeLuca started Subway at [--]. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at [--]. Kobe Bryant became the cultural leader of the Lakers at [--]. Alexander the Great became King of Macedon at [--]. Steve Jobs co-founded Apple at [--]. Steven Spielberg started directing with Universal "Fred DeLuca started Subway at [--]. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at [--]. Kobe Bryant became the cultural leader of the Lakers at [--]. Alexander the Great became King of Macedon at [--]. Steve Jobs co-founded Apple at [--]. Steven Spielberg"
X Link 2025-11-19T13:21Z 153.5K followers, 43.5K engagements

"Yes. Or on the spectrum. I cant think of anyone whos accomplished much who doesnt qualify. A subtle but underrated trend is that Americans have gotten so lazy that literally any effort or attention to detail is now called "autism" 😃 A subtle but underrated trend is that Americans have gotten so lazy that literally any effort or attention to detail is now called "autism" 😃"
X Link 2025-11-19T16:05Z 153.4K followers, 13.3K engagements

"Imagine how much worse his Civil War would be if he did it now instead of at the beginning of his career. Ken Burns and his unctuous documentaries. The one on Ben Franklin was particularly odious. This one may be even worse. Ken Burns and his unctuous documentaries. The one on Ben Franklin was particularly odious. This one may be even worse"
X Link 2025-11-19T19:22Z 153.6K followers, 161K engagements

"To all those [----] conservatives who dis Jonah try to get your head around how much he knows about the realities of past decades that too many of you know nothing about. Nothing. And he knows a LOT. https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/nixons-revenge/ https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/nixons-revenge/"
X Link 2025-11-20T00:46Z 153.8K followers, 33.9K engagements

"The [----] version looks like a home. The [----] version looks like a particular place. The [----] version looks like every place. When everyplace looks that same way everyplace starts to feel tedious and boring. The [----] version looks like a particular place. The [----] version looks like every place. When everyplace looks that same way everyplace starts to feel tedious and boring"
X Link 2025-11-21T03:18Z 153.9K followers, 29K engagements

"Classic Sailer. Cheerfully and deservedly crediting Burns for his skill and bluntly stating what he's doing wrong --which will grate with some but is accurate. BTW "shoehorning" is an inspired choice of words. Ken Burns is really good at documentaries on African-American topics. He should just do those and stop taking on predominantly white topics like the American Revolution National Parks and Country Music and shoehorning minor blacks into them. Ken Burns is really good at documentaries on African-American topics. He should just do those and stop taking on predominantly white topics like"
X Link 2025-11-21T12:48Z 153.8K followers, 85.9K engagements

"The more video I saw of Charlie Kirk after his death the better I liked him. The more video I see of Nick Fuentes the more I wonder how anyone could like him. Smirky infantile vapid. Nick Fuentes says that once he turns [--] he'll probably find himself a 16-year-old child bride: "Right when the milk is good I want to start drinking the milk." https://t.co/sYVmpGo9Q7 Nick Fuentes says that once he turns [--] he'll probably find himself a 16-year-old child bride: "Right when the milk is good I want to start drinking the milk." https://t.co/sYVmpGo9Q7"
X Link 2025-11-21T13:02Z 154.4K followers, 711.6K engagements

"I can't tell you how weird it is for me to read this post. It must be a little bit like Buzz Aldrin meeting a guy who told him the moon landing was faked. There is no "they." For the record no individual or organization has ever tried to get me to write to order with one exception: a million-dollar offer to ghost-write a book. I declined. @charlesmurray They must think Murray will be an effective "get" as an attacker of Fuentes considering his cach with an older generation of race realists. So they orchestrated it. I wonder if they directly paid him to do it or if he was genuinely bamboozled"
X Link 2025-11-22T20:00Z 153.9K followers, 25.5K engagements

"Okay this is one of many such posts I've gotten over the last few days Give me three links to substantial monologues--ten minutes at least--that show Nick Fuentes in his best light. I promise to watch them and report back. @charlesmurray You are seeing curated clips produced by jewish organizations adversarial to him and boosted on social media where they have influence over the algorithm. @charlesmurray You are seeing curated clips produced by jewish organizations adversarial to him and boosted on social media where they have influence over the algorithm"
X Link 2025-11-22T20:06Z 153.9K followers, 32.3K engagements

"Settled science. A male in his 20s has many diverting ways to spend his time from traveling the world to seeing how many women he can romance all of them a lot more fun than working forty hours a week at a job. https://t.co/jzP3F4ta9X A male in his 20s has many diverting ways to spend his time from traveling the world to seeing how many women he can romance all of them a lot more fun than working forty hours a week at a job. https://t.co/jzP3F4ta9X"
X Link 2025-11-23T13:57Z 153.5K followers, 49.1K engagements

"My reaction too. Increasingly I feel nervous when the car is not in FSD mode. Elon said hes 100% sure theyve solved FSD and its funny because you know at this point a lot of people dont listen to him when he says this because many are so conditioned to hearing its almost ready without it ending up happening. But if youre one of the few sitting Elon said hes 100% sure theyve solved FSD and its funny because you know at this point a lot of people dont listen to him when he says this because many are so conditioned to hearing its almost ready without it ending up happening. But if youre one of"
X Link 2025-11-23T14:06Z 153.5K followers, 27.4K engagements

"A banner reading IQ is only 18% shared environment would fix that. This is misleading. That claim refers to 50% of the IQ variance in the (currently non-enhanced) population being explained by genes. But that doesn't say anything about how much IQ can be increased by current tech. Also of course you want IQ points not percentages. https://t.co/YI1Klw19fv This is misleading. That claim refers to 50% of the IQ variance in the (currently non-enhanced) population being explained by genes. But that doesn't say anything about how much IQ can be increased by current tech. Also of course you want IQ"
X Link 2025-11-23T14:12Z 153.5K followers, 45.7K engagements

"There's a legitimate (though still controversial) case to be made that executions had a major effect on the UK reduction in violent crime in 1500-1900 @elonmusk Crime rates drop due to stable institutions economic growth effective policing and social norms not biological elimination. That said murderers should get their just punishment. But one is not going to solve crime by just hanging people. @elonmusk Crime rates drop due to stable institutions economic growth effective policing and social norms not biological elimination. That said murderers should get their just punishment. But one is"
X Link 2025-11-23T15:03Z 153.9K followers, 22.6K engagements

"@Jaamennn The problem is data availability pre 1500"
X Link 2025-11-23T15:25Z 153.5K followers, [---] engagements

"This link brings up what seems to be a compilation of excerpts. Do you have a link to the full show @charlesmurray https://t.co/kM6B3RbY1z @charlesmurray https://t.co/kM6B3RbY1z"
X Link 2025-11-23T15:34Z 153.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Well I've now listened to two hours of Fuentes describing the beliefs and intentions of people I was around for many years: Bill Buckley Norman Podhoretz Irving Kristol Bill Kristol et al. Reactions: [--]. As a presenter Fuentes is exceptionally fluent--going two hours with as few verbal glitches as he did is unusual. He is too loud and flamboyant for my taste but that is indeed a matter of taste. [--]. He is mind-numbingly repetitive. The points he makes during the two hours and the evidence for them could have been conveyed in [--] minutes max. [--]. His characterizations of Buckley et al. bear no"
X Link 2025-11-23T16:14Z 154K followers, 112.1K engagements

"What you saw was what you got. They were not duplicitous. On the contrary Norman Podhoretz seemed to have no filters whatsoever when it came to saying what he thought. Irving Kristol was pretty blunt too--as in the time when he said to me "That's the dumbest thing you've ever written." @charlesmurray What do you believe their real motives and intentions were @charlesmurray What do you believe their real motives and intentions were"
X Link 2025-11-23T16:41Z 153.5K followers, 18.8K engagements

"Add another [--] minutes onto my Fuentes Exposure. Reactions: [--]. From the beginning through 07:40 I agreed with everything he said which explains Fuentes' popularity: Many of the problems he excoriates are real. [--]. Starting at 7:40 the indictment became indiscriminate. The language became not only more florid but simply inaccurate (e.g. an unexplained complaint about the Chinese and Indians in Seattle alongside his largely accurate tirade against Somalis in Minnesota). Blacks and browns are the problem--not some blacks and some browns. Blacks and browns period. [--]. When he got around to what"
X Link 2025-11-23T18:39Z 154K followers, 172.9K engagements

"My wife points out that someone could paste and post the two sentences ending with blacks and browns period as if it were my opinion not Fuentess. Surely no one would quote me out of context so egregiously. Surely. But just in case: I was referring to Fuentess presentation. Add another [--] minutes onto my Fuentes Exposure. Reactions: [--]. From the beginning through 07:40 I agreed with everything he said which explains Fuentes' popularity: Many of the problems he excoriates are real. [--]. Starting at 7:40 the indictment became indiscriminate. The Add another [--] minutes onto my Fuentes Exposure."
X Link 2025-11-23T22:15Z 153.8K followers, 17.5K engagements

"Several of my closest friends. Professional colleagues who I deeply admire. Physicians to whom I am deeply grateful. Millions of others with funny-sounding names and thick accents and skin tones unlike mine who work hard take care of their families and love America. People like that. And almost forgot: members of my immediate family. @charlesmurray Who are you referring to here But the victory of Fuentes and his fans would produce an America in which tens of millions of exemplary Americans would not be welcome. Eagerly awaiting your reply. @charlesmurray Who are you referring to here But the"
X Link 2025-11-23T22:28Z 154.2K followers, 419.5K engagements

"The lessons from James Q. Wilson's Thinking About Crime have been forgotten. This is a useful reminder. https://www.city-journal.org/article/james-q-wilson-incarceration-crimeskip=1 https://www.city-journal.org/article/james-q-wilson-incarceration-crimeskip=1 https://www.city-journal.org/article/james-q-wilson-incarceration-crimeskip=1 https://www.city-journal.org/article/james-q-wilson-incarceration-crimeskip=1"
X Link 2025-11-24T15:51Z 153.9K followers, 14.1K engagements

"I've got a better idea. Don't follow me. @charlesmurray Incredible and painfully out of touch take. Professor please with all due respect log off. @charlesmurray Incredible and painfully out of touch take. Professor please with all due respect log off"
X Link 2025-11-24T16:45Z 154K followers, 31.7K engagements

"I suspect you became a racist because of what people claimed I'd written. If you had actually read any of my stuff you would know that the post to which you refer is consistent with my writings over the last 40+ years. For example read something from [--] years ago: the final chapter of TBC. It's one of life's little ironies that Charles Murray's caused me to become racist and here he is boomering out It's one of life's little ironies that Charles Murray's caused me to become racist and here he is boomering out"
X Link 2025-11-24T22:15Z 154.2K followers, 208.4K engagements

"A slight tweak: every person who ASKS to be called Dr. I dont ask but I also dont object when someone does. Thats pretentious in its own way. I do however correct people when they call me professor. Some things are unendurable. Sorry literally every person who goes by Dr. and isnt a medical doctor is insufferable. None of you are the exception. Not one. Sorry literally every person who goes by Dr. and isnt a medical doctor is insufferable. None of you are the exception. Not one"
X Link 2025-11-25T13:03Z 153.8K followers, 15.4K engagements

"I agree it's a serious question and think we had a pretty good solution to it with the immigration policy from the 1920s into the 1960s. @charlesmurray But what are we going to do about Whites becoming a minority in (almost) all white nations Is this just it The end for the white race The consequences will be something that looks more like Brazil or South Africa. I get it but these policies are unstable. Serious question. @charlesmurray But what are we going to do about Whites becoming a minority in (almost) all white nations Is this just it The end for the white race The consequences will be"
X Link 2025-11-25T14:59Z 153.8K followers, 23.8K engagements

"@Matt_Pinner 12"
X Link 2025-11-25T15:41Z 154K followers, 238.9K engagements

"I was hoping to see evidence documenting the statement that "Students admitted without test scores did just as well in their first and second years." That goes against the reported experience of other schools that dropped tests. If it's true it's big news. But it requires evidence. The larger problem is what it means to "control" for family background factors like parental education and income when assessing cognitive test scores. Why If the correlations of parental education and income with test scores are causal the test scores of children of high IQ parents who are poorly educated and have"
X Link 2025-11-25T21:45Z 153.9K followers, 22K engagements

"The question cannot be answered without knowing the split between male and female respondents. I have developed a one question IQ test. Do these results show women are more likely or less likely than men to support mandatory paternity testing at birth https://t.co/xLLVRhsArr I have developed a one question IQ test. Do these results show women are more likely or less likely than men to support mandatory paternity testing at birth https://t.co/xLLVRhsArr"
X Link 2025-11-27T14:42Z 153.9K followers, 44.4K engagements

"This is the train wreck that keeps me awake at night. Or one of the things. Bret Weinstein just said something that wont leave my head: For the first time in [------] years of human evolution we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented sex and pair-bonding. Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the https://t.co/sS729STZdK Bret Weinstein just said something that wont leave my head: For the first time in [------] years of human evolution we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented sex and pair-bonding. Reliable birth control +"
X Link 2025-11-28T01:46Z 154.3K followers, 1.2M engagements

"I was deeply skeptical of Lynns early publications on national IQs and for good technical reasons. But a lot of work has been done since then. And as in so many things Lynn may have gotten out over his handlebars but his basic thesis has stood up when reexamined with better datasets. TL;DR: She wants to retract papers she doesn't like for political reasons and she doesn't really have a scientific way to make her case. Her aim to pollute the scientific literature with politics is bad and should be sanctioned. TL;DR: She wants to retract papers she doesn't like for political reasons and she"
X Link 2025-11-28T02:01Z 154K followers, 90.8K engagements

"I envy the first sentence of mimetic_sisyphuss post. A straightforward statement of reality that seldom gets said so clearly. I think something the left has never really been able to accept is that for tens of millions of Americans nearly all of their federal tax dollars are simply taken from them with no direct and very weak indirect benefits. Its a constant imposition and there is no thank you. I think something the left has never really been able to accept is that for tens of millions of Americans nearly all of their federal tax dollars are simply taken from them with no direct and very"
X Link 2025-11-28T02:11Z 153.9K followers, 108.7K engagements

"Remind me never to go to Amsterdam again. Witnessed something incredible at the Amsterdam train station yesterday Fat and loud American tourist was trying to buy a water bottle for [----] Threw a [--] bill on the counter and started walking away ""Keep the change man" said in a typical annoying Californian accent "We Witnessed something incredible at the Amsterdam train station yesterday Fat and loud American tourist was trying to buy a water bottle for [----] Threw a [--] bill on the counter and started walking away ""Keep the change man" said in a typical annoying Californian accent "We"
X Link 2025-11-29T00:51Z 154.2K followers, 89.3K engagements

"Do a little reading on the roles of shared and non shared environment. Shared environment (parental SES parenting style etc ) has minor influence. @justsurfinthei1 @Kazanjy @charlesmurray 20% in kids and 50% in adults isnt very high. In short environment nutrition and education count for a lot. But sure some is certainly genetic. @justsurfinthei1 @Kazanjy @charlesmurray 20% in kids and 50% in adults isnt very high. In short environment nutrition and education count for a lot. But sure some is certainly genetic"
X Link 2025-11-29T01:06Z 154K followers, 12.6K engagements

"The stuff of nightmares. POV: Youre a welfare-state advocate debating Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell at the same time https://t.co/Unnu3zPi8m POV: Youre a welfare-state advocate debating Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell at the same time https://t.co/Unnu3zPi8m"
X Link 2025-11-29T12:49Z 154K followers, 42.7K engagements

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