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Facing Reality with Charles Murray

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They asked for an honest conversation on race, right? Enter this week's guest Charles Murray, author most recently of Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America. He and guys jostle on this most sensitive of subjects, but do so with the kind of generosity you can only find on Ricochet (We let things be too chummy around here!) Rob, Peter and James also get into the G7 and a rudderless Biden on the world stage, along with Jon Stewart on Stephen Colbert's stage. They even do their best to find some optimism, but we may need our friends at Ricochet to cheer them up in the comments!

Music from this week's podcast: Ball of Confusion by The Temptations

Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
Guest:
CMCharles Murray

Discussion (174)

  • Mark Alexander@MarkAlexander

    Great episode, although Charles was much more optimistic last summer when he thought the rioting was just like the late-1960s. But clearly he sees now what he failed to see then.

    I was fortunate to be one of the few on Twitter that he followed--he never seemed to follow over 250 people--back when I had my Underground Grammarian Twitter account.

    I'd tweet quotes from his books, like those below, twice a week and he would often retweet with comments. But I'm sure the real reason was because those tweets increased book sales.

    He seemed to be having a good time, despite the doom and gloom. Well, we will see.

  • Mark Alexander@MarkAlexander
    Replyingtokedavis

    kedavis (View Comment):

    I think Charles Murray is wrong, I don’t think “they” have actually been trying very hard to improve the lives of minorities etc, and I think it’s deliberate.

    In a weird way, yes. Everything gets sacrificed to the ideal image in the Far Left mind. Nobody can live up to that ideal, which is why everyone eventually gets sacrificed to the guillotine of Progress. Robespierre found that out, a little too late.

  • kedavis@kedavis

    Also, Murray largely skips over the important aspect of single-parent households, the reality that the welfare system drove men/fathers/husbands out of homes because they couldn't get assistance if the father was present. And the foreseeable result was long-term multi-generational poverty and dependence.

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