"Murray's editor last week posted something about Murray's latest book. 'Taking Religion Seriously by #CharlesMurray may be the most important book I’ve ever edited.' ... I immediately ordered it. To be entirely accurate, I immediately ordered it again..." https://ofb.biz/sa1362

#Christianity #Reason #Faith

Pinkerite: One of the articles censored by #Rational Wiki - Charles Murray

#CharlesMurray @Pinkerite
https://www.pinkerite.com/2025/05/one-of-articles-censored-by-rational.html

Hamewith - Poem
Charles Murray

"Hot youth ever is a ranger,
New scenes ever its desire;
Cauld Eild, doubtfu’ o’ the stranger,
Thinks but o’ haudin’ in the fire.

Midway, the wanderer is weary,
Fain he’d be turning in his prime
Hamewith – the road that’s never dreary,
Back where his heart is a’ the time."

I'll be cross-posting on #Bluesky when there's something #Scottish to be shared but my heart's in mastodon.scot ❤️ Feels lik hame tae me. My ain fowk. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#Poetry #CharlesMurray #Scotland

‘Outer Range’ Star Josh Brolin and EP Charles Murray on the Sci-Fi Western’s Wild Second Season — and Possible Future: ‘This Has Its Hook In Me’
#Variety #News #CharlesMurray #JoshBrolin #Justwatched #OuterRange

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/outer-range-josh-brolin-season-2-time-travel-the-hole-1236003108/

"The Bell Curve" is a highly controversial 1994 book by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray. It purports to show that intelligence is dispositive in the trajectory of each person's life, and that can be used to predict such things as socioeconomic status and tendencies toward criminal behavior.

Much of the research in The Bell Curve is not disputed, but the conclusions drawn from it (low #IQ is to blame for the underclass) are frequently cited by #eugenics and white nationalist movements.

Murray is listed as a scholar for the American Enterprise Institute, which is sponsored by the Kochs. Murray is essentially a right-leaning libertarian who argues that innate individual differences help explain economic inequality.

#RationalWiki #thebellcurve #charlesmurray #crime #WhiteNationalism #economicinequality #charlesmurray #americanenterpriseinstitute #libertarianism
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve

"...
3 On a Foreign Grave Anon
O, start ye East fae #Tomintoul or Wast fae #Aiberdeen,
Straught to the grave rins doon the road that ye maun tak yer leen.
When comes the en', nae maitter then in what far airt ye fa',
For aye at your back, on the hindmost track, the ae same win' will blaw
..."
Extract from Versions in Scots from the Greek anthology by Charles Murray #Hamewith

Translation: Doesn't matter where you come from...we all end up in the same place.
#CharlesMurray #Doric #Scots #Poetry

When Will the War Be By? #CharlesMurray

“This year, neist year, sometime, never,”
A lanely lass, bringing hame the kye,
Pu’s at a floo’er wi’ a weary sigh,
An’ laich, laich, she is coontin’ ever
“This year, neist year, sometime, never,
When will the war be by?”

“Weel, wounded, missin’, deid,”
Is there nae news o’ oor lads ava?
Are they hale an’ fere that are hine awa’?
A lass raxed oot for the list, to read –
“Weel, wounded, missin’, deid “;
An’ the war was by for twa.

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/when-will-war-be/