Charles Murray and Others Rediscovering God: No Accident of Timing
People who have followed ferment in the book world since, say, the Eighties and the Nineties, have likely heard of political scientist Charles Murray (b. 1943). He authored the influential Losing Ground (1984) on welfare reform. Much more controversially, he co-authored with Richard Herrnstein (1930–1994) The Bell Curve (1994), which focused on the relationship between IQ and class structure. Coming Apart (2012) was less controversial but more sobering; it described the way social classes in the United States had slowly been diverging over the previous half century — with clear implications for politics. His forthcoming book, Taking Religion Seriously (December 2025), is rather more personal: “Millions are like me when it comes to religion: well-educated and successful people for whom religion has been irrelevant,” Charles Murray writes. “For them, Read More ›
