Charles Murray

Charles Murray is best known for his 1984 seminal book about welfare reform: Losing Ground and for his controversial 1994 book The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. His latest book, Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950, presents evidence that the rate of great accomplishment has been declining in the last century, asks what it means, and offers a rich framework for thinking about the conditions under which the human spirit has expressed itself gloriously.