…falling apart. My brother, who came up through Petal Middle School—allegedly part of the state’s premier public school district—navigated bathrooms with missing stall doors. Try going number two when anyone…
…Settler Colonialism, and Charles Murray’s Coming Apart. The sciences were represented by Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene; Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate; Richard Feynman’s Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!; Kary…
…talking about. Therapy is a general term, and there are several pathways to becoming a therapist. These differences provide interprofessional friction points in the same way people in the Army…
…undercutting American workers, others argue that it can benefit the economy. I actually don’t think the two sides are as far apart as the fiery rhetoric suggests. Almost no one…
…it never happened—at least, not as the college claimed. In 2023, he was yanked out of the classroom, his pay stopped coming, and that was supposed to be the end….
…Cambridge, they have always been uncomfortable with the Aristotelian idea that there are some things worth learning for their own sakes, apart from any social benefit they might yield. This…
…of Syracuse on Sicily. This is the strategic gambit that leads to the failure of the thalassocracy of Attica. As things fall apart on Sicily, back in Athens the populace…
…ideas to justify ex post facto an aging mess of a mass movement. Mailer saw this coming. He wrote about it. If you still know people who read (I do…
“Each side is coming face to face with its own conception of the devil!” – Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night Arthur Rackham’s 1935 illustration of Edgar Allan Poe’s…
…weight of knowing what’s coming adds to the reader’s anxiety as chances to escape it are foreclosed by paradox. For instance, Thucydides notes that the same public agility that helps…
…Self-Interpretation of Man in the West,”—such a Harvard does not exist. How heartening then to hear of the conception of U-Austin, the quickening of seed-money, and a birth coming soon….
…is being reversed. Instead of getting closer to “We the people,” coming together as individuals, there is a movement fueled by some extremists to tear us apart. We are a…
…Man. Man is apart from nature, radically so, as free (for the Liberal) and as creative (for the Expressive). In either case, Man is alone with himself. And both theories…
…and yes, even tragedy at critical junctures in my life. There were moments when it seemed like I was coming apart at the seams, and all I wanted to do…
…other players. They take great pride in being the best in their class, and they love to challenge themselves to achieve the next level. Gaming teaches incoming students that self-motivation…
…Murray’s Coming Apart to Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me and is intended to offer a wide range of perspectives on the American Dream and truly promote viewpoint diversity….
…campuses without massive police protection, made much the same point in his book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. Murray urged what he calls “the new upper class”…
…he alleges, “which is to destroy its perceived enemies.” Nevertheless, the victimhood studies associate professors and diversity office administrators will find the principal culprit for their coming unemployment in the…
…noisy social justice warriors can briefly summarize the core argument of Coming Apart? Here’s a trick question: what does Coming Apart say about African Americans? (Answer: nothing, it’s only about…
…the poor.” This was an unusually tawdry account of Murray’s long career, including his 2012 book on the collapse of much white American culture, Coming Apart, which might have explained…
…following Hayek, being libertarian and being conservative. Consider that Murray came to Middlebury to talk about his book Coming Apart as one way of understanding the outcome of our recent…
Photo: Erielle Davidson for The Daily Wire A few months ago, AEI’s student group at Middlebury College invited me to speak on the themes of Coming Apart and how they…
…an address drawn from his latest book, Coming Apart, which explains the increasing economic and cultural polarization that has taken place in America because of structural changes in our information-based,…
…have come as no surprise, given the results from a 2015 survey of the Association of American Universities. (Both Stuart Taylor and I picked apart the dubious methodology of the…
…Apart. RP: Has he written about the religion thing? I didn’t remember that. DB: Coming Apart is about decline of religion certainly. And yet you don’t cite Murray at all…
…past the preponderance-of-evidence threshold. Apart from the accuser, Cornell’s main witness appears not to have been any of the students with whom the accused and accuser partied, but instead a…
…Johnson Hostler asserts that acquaintance rape is a “scourge of college life,” with one in five female students becoming a victim of rape or attempted rape. (Her source is the…
…Shanghai. Whether this will suffice to keep students coming to an expensive school in a rather remote place, I don’t have any idea. But if I were in President Rochon’s…
…should be seeing 250-300 rapes/sexual assaults per week.’” Does anyone (apart, it seems, from Hammat) believe that there are 300 rapes each week at UT? To provide some statistical context,…
…that Goldstein signed before coming to CUNY, and that “by national standards, Dr. Goldstein’s compensation has always been moderate.” The only criticism of Goldstein’s actions (apart from Kaminer’s subtle editorializing…