Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
Author: Charles Murray
Publisher: Twelve
Price: $35
Pages: 508
Just when the world seems poised to boil over with political rancour and outrage, along comes Charles Murray — right on time — with a new book titled Human Diversity.
Yes, that Mr Murray, who in 1994 co-authored The Bell Curve, with Richard J Herrnstein, arguing in two notorious chapters that IQ differences between the races were mostly innate and mostly intractable. Social programmes like welfare or early education intervention ought to be scrapped not only because they were fruitless but because they encouraged women with