Charles Murray on Coming Apart

This week on Uncommon Knowledge, longtime American Enterprise Institute fellow Charles Murray discusses his controversial new book, Coming Apart, about what American was, is, and will become. He also reveals his personal score on his now famous "bubble quiz." Take the quiz here http://www.scribd.com/doc/77349055/Co...

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[aussieconservative]

I'm amazed at how much people seem to get frustrated at Peter Robinson. I think that he is one of the best interviewers going around. he does and extraordinary job!!

[holbrookth2]

"the host" is Peter Robinson, who wrote Reagan's 1987 Tear down this wall address.

[DrControversy]

Why can't it be both? As in, other forces cause the destruction of family culture, welfare state comes along in a bad attempt to fix it, in turn makes it WORSE.

[George Yencha]

The Hoover Institute is an obviously biased Right wing think tank, but I do see the importance in hearing multiple views and Charles Murray is one of the best the Right has to offer.

[Natalie Rosen]

Right wing clap trap...HUGE generalizations and REASONS why the family came apart, reasons why some drifted from organized religion and reasons why stuffing sexuality into the closet was NOT acceptable! Also reasons why black people were MAD..I know a couple in 1963 who should NOT have been together and it played havoc with their children and the woman was abused but police would not interfere in domestic disputes. NO ONE wants to go back to the disgusting suppression of the culture existed.

[DeadMarine1980]

@ZaklogtheWiz no in fact people are forced to those things. You cannot buy a house unless you have credit, so yes you are "forced". If you wanna.have a job you need a car, hence forth you need that card as well to get a great rate, and forget public transportation, because most cities tire them down. The car manufacturers made sure it happens.

[mrzack888]

the welfare state is a result of the destruction of family culture, not the cause.

globalization outsourcing and feminism may the the culprit, not welfare.

it's like blaming the cough for causing the cold.

[StateExempt]

Possibly the greatest social scientist alive today. Hands down.

[scotishcovenanters]

Fascinating interview. Always love to see you Peter, and thank you for having Dr. Murray on the show. I have lived his experience and am sorry that some have missed the point in that Murray is talking about "civil economy" and not monetary economy. // Now may I please say something totally irrelevant? I appreciate this interview being done with a warm and comfortable background and you both sitting at a nice table instead of the usual irritating black background with a tacky Formica tabletop.

[ZaklogtheWiz]

Actually, the guest's point is that "Fishtown" is failing itself, not "smart rich white people," and that this failure has consequences for all of us. And as for slavery, today, that's entirely voluntary in the form of debt. No one forces people to go out and get a credit card, a car loan & "rent to own." Spending more than you make is a choice, and an ultimately destructive one.

[DrCruel]

Maybe the problem with this new generation is that they associate hard work with slavery and think of a common civic culture as a form of racism.

[kostas mitrogiannis]

So. the dumb white poor people have failed the smart rich white people because they are not religious enough and the do not breed new slaves enough,interesting and pathetic at the same time!!!