Charles Murray was interviewed by David Lubinski at the 2009 meeting in Madrid, Spain.

Charles Murray is a political scientist and author. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a PhD in political science from MIT, and he has spent much of his career at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

He is the author of several influential and widely debated books on American society, including Losing Ground (1984), Coming Apart (2012), and Human Diversity (2020). For ISIR members he is best known for The Bell Curve (1994), written with the psychologist Richard Herrnstein, which argued that cognitive ability had become a powerful predictor of life outcomes in modern America. Few books have generated more discussion, both scholarly and public, about the measurement of intelligence and its place in society.