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Charles Murray

Charles Murray is W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author, most recently, of Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010.

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Weighing the Evidence I have no important disagreements with James Heckman’s description of the significance of early childhood experiences or the radical differences in those experiences among children of different socioeconomic classes....
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