# Charles Murray

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Is There Anyone You Think God Can't Reach?

In this episode of Wake Up, Look Up, Pastor Zach reflects on Charles Murray’s surprising conversion to Christianity and asks whether there’s anyone we think God can’t reach. Murray—an Ivy League–trained intellectual—came to faith through studying the claims of Christianity and observing the steady …

Debate with Charles Murray: IQ and Human Worth

In his 2020 book, Human Diversity, Charles Murray writes that “it is obvious how senseless it is” to conflate “intellectual ability and the professions it enables with human worth....There shouldn’t be any relationship between these things and human worth.” In “Are Smart People Superior?,” I argue …

Nose Against the Window

Charles Murray was a casual agnostic, until he wasn’t. He deployed his intellect (educated at Harvard and MIT) to explore a change of direction. Murray discusses this change in his book, “Taking Religion Seriously.” In a self-deprecating way he said, “This is a book by a guy who has no natural tale…

We Are Ruled by the Worst - The Charlie Kirk Conspiracy and Other Symptoms | Richard Hanania

Get KAKISTOCRACY on Amazon: https://bit.ly/4hxg9Lh Synopsis Richard Hanania is back. His new book, Kakistocracy, argues that populism ends in rule by the worst people, and he and Noam spend an hour testing that against the news: why populism can win without being popular, whether the Iran war w…

The Rise and Fall of the Intellectual Dark Web | Ep 84

Bari Weiss and her 2018 New York Times article on the Intellectual Dark Web launched Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and the Weinstein brothers into the mainstream. Nearly a decade later, we dissect how that moment imploded into conspiracy rabbit holes, algorithm addiction, and the collapse of a would…

UNLOCKED (Full Ep): Fashademics 4 - Charles Murray & The Pioneer Fund

This episode has been unlocked, as promised! If you enjoy the show pls consider supporting via patreon.com/nicemangos —— Polite Conversations is part of a progressive independent Canadian podcast community Check out Harbinger media at Harbingermedianetwork.com —— On this episode I’m joined by Jon P…

Is "Race Realism" Simply Racism? ╏Nathan Cofnas Under Fire

Is Nathan Cofnas's "Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution." a plan to heal or America, or is it simply a racist manifesto dressed up as science. We ask him to his face. Cofnas is the philosopher at the center of the Jason Arday plagiarism affair. He says that, all else equal, smarter people …

Unlocking grid capacity through operational intelligence and dynamic distribution with Switch Source CEO Charles Murray

Tell us what you think of the show! Grid resilience isn’t a new concept, but the way utilities achieve it is changing dramatically. Traditionally, hardening the grid meant building bigger physical infrastructure. But as Switched Source CEO Charles Murray has outlined, meeting upcoming grid demands…

Are Economists Measuring the Wrong Things?

Today's guest, Nobel Prize winner James Heckman, is one of the world's most influential—and misunderstood—economists. His research showing that intensive, early interventions can help low-income children close achievement gaps has been, he says, willfully misinterpreted as support for expensive and…