I have never written about Charles Murray without the most overt of sneers.1 Well, that has to change, because Charles, writing in the National Review, has just nailed the best right-wing take-down of Donald Trump I’ve ever read, “Why ‘Hillary is even worse’ doesn’t cut it”. Sample quotes: “In my view, Donald Trump is unfit…
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Charles Murray to Asians: You’re so stupid!
Why aren’t Asians Republicans? demands Charles “Cap’n Bell Curve” Murray, in the latest “can’t find my ass with both hands” posting by a prominent Republican. According to Murray, “It’s not just that the income, occupations, and marital status of Asians should push them toward the right. Everyday observation of Asians around the world reveal them…
Yes, Charles Murray is an asshole
The big man, after being wined and lunched by the Financial Times, tries to hit them up for a $350 bottle of wine. (And this after a palate-numbing martini. Très chic!)1 And, in addition to trying to hit up the FT for a $350 bottle of wine, and bragging endlessly about his oenological expertise, Murray…
Charles Murray, refuting himself
“Data can bear on policy issues, but many of our opinions about policy are grounded on premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data. Try to think of any new data that would change your position on abortion, the death penalty, legalization of marijuana, same-sex marriage…
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Articles of Lasting Interest: Jazz: I post a jazz video every week, usually but not necessarily featuring a performance of a composition of Thelonious Monk. These videos can be accessed as a group here. “Harvard douchebaggery not exclusively a left-wing phenomenon, study reveals” is an unfriendly take on Harvard Professor Robert Barro’s disingenuous claim that…
Those Mean Old Disestablishment Blues: Why it’s so hard to put Humpty-Dumpty together again
Dreary old Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by almost three million votes, despite being deeply loathed by millions of voters, many of whom held their noses and voted for snatch snatchin’ Don. Post election, Trump’s poll ratings have never reached the 45% mark, despite a booming stock market and a steadily expanding economy. So why…
Yo, fellow elitists! Enough with the breast-beating!
Yes, I am an elitist. I do not own a car, yet am comfortably nestled in the lower upper-income brackets. I live within walking distance of three live theaters, an internationally recognized art collection (the Phillips), and numerous jazz clubs, not to mention a Whole Foods and more Starbucks than I can count. I don’t…
Pride goeth before a fall? I sure hope so!
At the corner of 18th and Massachusetts, less than two blocks from my condo, stands this fine, five-story Beaux Arts structure, sometimes known as the Andrew Mellon Building. For several years now, the American Enterprise Institute has been laboring to turn 1785 Mass into a headquarters posh enough for their exalted egos, counting among their number…
What we talk about when we drink $350 bottles of wine
Over at the New Criterion, a site I should really stop visiting, Charles Murray, about whom I should probably stop writing, has a piece that, well, that I’m writing about, called, for whatever reason, Future tense, IX: Out of the wilderness.* Murray’s springboard is a book he published back in 2004, Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit…
Waiter! Another $350 bottle of wine! We’ve got a country to save!
Over at the New Republic, Alec MacGillis has a nice article on how Obama lost the hedge fund managers. Among the many indignities Obama and his post-New Deal crew foisted upon the billionaire boys club is the following, involving Clifford Asness, founder of AQR Capital Management, a $16 billion firm: Last July, a Rutgers business…