ISBN: 9781641771979
Editorial: Encounter Books
Autor: Murray, Charles
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 168
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: In his newest book, Charles Murray fearlessly states two controversial truths about the American population: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. If we aim to navigate public policy with wisdom and realism, these realities must be brought into the light.“Facing Reality provides a powerful overview of one perspective that those who allege sweeping forms of systemic or institutional racism find it all to convenient to ignore―or cancel without due consideration.”―Wilfred Reilly, Commentary“Facing Reality is a bold, important book which should be widely read and discussed.” ―Amy L. Wax, Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, for the Claremont Review of BooksThe charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart float free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. The allegations of racism in policing, college admissions, segregation in housing, and hiring and promotions in the workplace ignore the ways in which the problems that prompt the allegations of systemic racism are driven by these two realities.What good can come of bringing them into the open? America’s most precious ideal is what used to be known as the American Creed: People are not to be judged by where they came from, what social class they come from, or by race, color, or creed. They must be judged as individuals. The prevailing Progressive ideology repudiates that ideal, demanding instead that the state should judge people by their race, social origins, religion, sex, and sexual orientation.We on the center left and center right who are the American Creed’s natural defenders have painted ourselves into a corner. We have been unwilling to say openly that different groups have significant group differences. Since we have not been willing to say that, we have been left defenseless against the claims that racism is to blame. What else could it be? We have been afraid to answer. We must. Facing Reality is a step in that direction. Biografía del autor Charles Murray is the Hayek Emeritus Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He first came to national attention in 1984 with the publication of Losing Ground, followed by the The Bell Curve in 1994 and Coming Apart in 2012. He lives with his wife in Burkittsville, Maryland. Extracto. © Reimpreso con autorización. Reservados todos los derechos. Chapter One: The American Creed Imperiled"It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies, but to be one." ―Richard HofsadterAmerica’s founding ideals—America’s soul—used to be called the American creed. The creed’s origin is the first sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, ….” In Samuel Huntington’s words, the creed embodies “the political principles of liberty, equality, democracy, individualism, human rights, the rule of law, and private property.”Europeans who looked with hope to America in the nineteenth century grasped a simpler meaning: In America, they would be the equals of anyone else—equal before the law and possessing the same inherent human dignity as anyone else. In America, they would be judged on what they were as individuals, not by what social class they came from or how they worshipped God. That promise drew immigrants by the millions who believed that in America you could go as far as your own hard work and talent would take you.Our history is riddled with failures to achieve our ideal, starting with the Dec
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Murray, Charles
- Editorial: Encounter Books
- N° Paginas: 168
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
