What is Charles Murray?
{{Infobox academic | non-academic = yes | name = Charles Murray | image = Charles Murray Speaking at FreedomFest.jpeg | birth_name = Charles Alan Murray | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|1|8}} | birth_place = [[Newton, Iowa]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Suchart Dej-Udom|1966|1980|end=div}} * {{marriage|Catherine Bly Cox|1983}} }} | children = 4 | awards = [[Irving Kristol Award]] (2009)<br>[[Kistler Prize]] (2011) | website = | education = [[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]) | thesis_title = Investment and Tithing in Thai Villages: A Behavioral Study of Rural Modernization | thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85708 | thesis_year = 1974 | school_tradition = [[Right-libertarianism]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Lucian Pye]] | discipline = [[Political science]] | workplaces = [[American Institutes for Research]]<br>[[Manhattan Institute for Policy Research]]<br>[[American Enterprise Institute]] | main_interests = [[Race and intelligence]]<br>[[Social welfare]] policy | notable_works = ''[[Losing Ground (book)|Losing Ground]]'' (1984)<br>''[[The Bell Curve]]'' (1994)<br>''[[Coming Apart (book)|Coming Apart]]'' (2012) }} '''Charles Alan Murray''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|ɜr|i}}; born January 8, 1943) is an [[Americans|American]] [[Political science|political scientist]]. He is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the [[American Enterprise Institute]], a [[conservatism in the United States|conservative]] [[think tank]] in [[Washington, DC]].<ref name=AEIbio>{{cite web |title=Charles Murray AEI Scholar |url=https://www.aei.org/profile/charles-murray/ |access-date=November 12, 2020 |work=American Enterprise Institute website |publisher=American Enterprise Institute |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |archiv