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…
Tag: Charles Murray
Charles Murray, cutting to the chase
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…
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…
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…
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…
If you work for AEI, you may be a redneck
Or maybe just a racist. Charles “I’m not a racist” Murray is back at it, with a hot new book about how those damn hippies ruined everything back in the Sixties, turning us all into muesli-munching, boutique beer-swilling brats and generally sending the whole damn country straight on the road to perdition. The white folks,…