I was thinking about BoBo's latest Charles Murray inspired claim that that what the lesser humans among us need is some "bourgeois paternalism." Apparently they're behaving badly, in ways which hurt BoBo's aesthetic sensibilities, and Upper Class Daddy...

Douthat and David Brooks both hit the same point in recent columns on Charles Murray’s new book Coming Apart. Here’s Brooks: [Murray's] left-wing critics in the blogosphere have reverted to crude 1970s economic determinism: It’s all the fault of lost jobs.

Among Murray’s other conclusions: Murray added that upper-class citizens should reconsider whether they want their children to live their lives in isolated enclaves that shield them from others. “I think that the first thing we have to do is start a...

Rick Santorum, by contrast, has won 39 percent of the counties with higher income, and 46 percent of those with lower income. These numbers — a product of the kind of residential-sorting-by-class that Charles Murray documents in his new book, “Coming...

This is a pervasive misconception encouraged by liberals who conflate the religious right with the working class, and by conservative evangelicals who inveigh against the godless ruling class. Certainly, white intellectual elites have become extremely...

The real conclusion of “Coming Apart,” as well as Murray’s 1994 book “The Bell Curve,” is that character is not enough. What matters is talent. Because of technological and economic changes, one must perform much better than ever for it to matter. ...