My Chat with Political Scientist Dr. Charles Murray (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_306)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Topics covered include the deontological defence of truth, Thomas Sowell, the honey badger mindset, nature versus nurture issue, racial differences in cognitive abilities and criminality, sex differences, forbidden knowledge, academia, interdisciplinarity, academic specialization, consilience, the social sciences versus the natural sciences, falsifiability (epistemology), postmodernism, critical race theory, the SAT, evolutionary psychology, proximate vs. ultimate explanations, just-so stories, nomological networks of cumulative evidence, parenting, regret, and the secrets to a good life. _______________________________________ Charles Murray is the F. A. Hayek Chair Emeritus Scholar in Cultural Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. His books include Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 (1984); In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government (1989); The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (with Richard Herrnstein) (1994); What It Means to Be a Libertarian (1997); Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950 (2003); Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality (2008); Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010 (2012); American Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History (2013); Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class (2020); and his latest book published this year Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America (2021). _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This chat was posted earlier today (October 20, 2021) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1322: https://youtu.be/YiQ01fQtv1U _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, God's out here again.
0:03.8	I never fail you, another fantastic guest today.
0:06.7	I've got Dr. Charles Murray, a political scientist.
0:09.5	He probably doesn't need an introduction.
0:11.2	First, let me say hello Charles.
0:13.0	Oh God. And I just want to read some of his books. It's not the full list of books, but it's quite a few of them.
0:20.0	I think I've put them in chronological order.
0:22.6	By the way, you are the F.A. Hayek chair Emeritus Scholar and Cultural Studies
0:26.6	at the American Enterprise Institute.
0:29.7	So here are some of the books.
0:30.8	It's all started in 1984, losing ground, then you have in pursuit of
0:34.4	happiness and good government. Then of course the one that catapulted you as a household name,
0:40.6	the Belkirve, what it means to be a libertarian, human accomplishment. I think I'd like to talk
0:45.8	about some of the stuff in that book. Real education, four simple truths for bringing America
0:50.6	schools back to reality, coming apart, American exceptionalism, human
0:54.9	diversity, and then the book that just came out this year facing reality, two truths
1:00.7	about race in America. So here's what I thought we would start by doing first Charles.
1:06.1	I'm going to tell you two personal anecdotes because then we could link it to some of the stuff that has you you into all sorts of hot water because of some of the
1:15.7	positions that you've taken. And you'll see in a second why I'm setting it up this way. So yesterday I was out with my wife and one of our children, our other child was home doing some homework.
1:26.5	He's nine years old, the son who was with us, and he was writing in this dear diary kind of journal, you know, I like this French teacher but I don't like
1:35.9	this teacher. So he's basically recounting his day. I said to him, you know what would be fun,
1:40.1	son, is if we try to do a new type of exercise. Why don't I propose a position and then
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