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<title><![CDATA[Charles Murray - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16091.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Charles Murray]]></description><category domain="16091">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why an Intentional Universe Makes Sense]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/10/31/charles_murray_takig_religion_seriously_why_an_intentional_universe_makes_sense.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political scientist and author Charles Murray joined the RealClearPolitics podcast on Friday to talk about his new book, "Taking Religion Seriously," a personal reflection on the nature of God, nature, and existence. Murray is known for his thought-provoking political books, including...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Science Reckon With the Human Soul?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/can-science-reckon-with-the-human-soul-76cdb7b6?st=58BuZK</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A paradigm shift is coming as evidence emerges that we are more than our brains.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Roots of STEM Excellence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-roots-of-stem-excellence-higher-education-cognitive-ability-over-dei-df09f6c7?st=lnae1l50jqogeuv</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Finding and developing one of our rarest and most precious human resources is a paramount goal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Is Not a Racist Country]]></title>
							<link>https://tomklingenstein.com/america-is-not-a-racist-country/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Charles Murray believes that Americans must face up to reality, or risk losing the republic as we know it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Politics of Race Will Wreck America]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/identity-crisis-politics-race-wreck-america-charles-murray/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tens of millions of these people live in towns that have no black residents or just a few and issues of race haven't impinged on their lives]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reflections on the Revolution in Middlebury]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/publication/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-middlebury/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And so I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m pessimistic. I say that realizing that I am probably the most unqualified person to analyze the larger meanings of last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s events at Middlebury. It will take some time for me to be dispassionate. If you promise to bear that in mind, I will say what I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Exploring the Divide Between the Right and the Left]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436779/charles-murray-yuval-levin-the-fractured-republic-book-review</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yuval Levin opens his new book with an accusation that bites: that the Baby Boomers have propagandized subsequent generations into accepting a version of history that has been '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??blinded by nostalgia.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? Both sides of the political divide are guilty. The Left is nostalgic about the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why &quot;Hillary Clinton Is Worse&quot; Doesn't Cut It]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435805/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-why-hillary-is-even-worse-doesnt-cut-it</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am part of the tiny fraction of the population that deals professionally in public policy from the right. In influence, we are all over the map, from talk-show hosts with audiences of millions (Limbaugh, Hannity) to politicians who directly shape policy (Ryan, McConnell) to academics...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons From the Bubble Quiz: Wrapping Up]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei.org/publication/lessons-from-the-bubble-quiz-4/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t claim it was part of the plan. The Bubble Quiz was supposed to be a heuristic device. I wanted members of the new upper class who read Coming Apart to come to grips with the degree of their isolation from mainstream white America, and I hoped the 25 items in the quiz would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons From the Bubble Quiz #1]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei.org/publication/lessons-from-the-bubble-quiz-1/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of my central propositions in Coming Apart, a book I published in 2012, was that a high-IQ, highly educated new upper class has formed over the last half century. It has a culture of its own that is largely disconnected from the culture of mainstream America. I could expect that many...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Open Letter to the Virginia Tech Community]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/publication/an-open-letter-to-the-virginia-tech-community/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, the president of Virginia Tech, Tim Sands, published an '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'open letter to the Virginia Tech community'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' defending lectures delivered by deplorable people like me (I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m speaking on the themes of Coming Apart on March 25). Bravo for President Sands'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s defense of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's Nothing Irrational About Donald Trump's Appeal]]></title>
							<link>http://on.wsj.com/1Kg9nGe</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s nothing irrational about Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s appeal to the white working class, writes Charles Murray: They have every reason to be frustrated with the raw deal they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??ve received in recent decades.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble With Kids Today]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2015/09/17/the-trouble-with-kids-today/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Regulation Run Amok--And How to Fight Back]]></title>
							<link>http://www.wsj.com/articles/regulation-run-amokand-how-to-fight-back-1431099256</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the SAT Isn't a &quot;Student Affluence Test&quot;]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/#q=Why+the+SAT+Is+Not+a+%E2%80%98Student+Affluence+Test%E2%80%99&amp;tbm=nws</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Spring is here, which means it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time for elite colleges to send out acceptance letters. Some will go to athletes, the children of influential alumni and those who round out the school'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s diversity profile. But most will go to the offspring of the upper middle class. We all know...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Ayn Rand Captured the Magic of America]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2014/10/16/ayn-rand-captured-the-magic-of-american-life/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1991, the book-of-the-month club conducted a survey asking people what book had most influenced their lives. The Bible ranked number one and Ayn Rand'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Atlas Shrugged'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' was number two. In 1998, the Modern Library released two lists of the top 100 books of the twentieth...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble Isn't Liberals. It's Progressives.]]></title>
							<link>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:online.wsj.com/articles/charles-murray-the-trouble-isnt-liberals-its-progressives-1404170419</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Social conservatives. Libertarians. Country-club conservatives. Tea party conservatives. Everybody in politics knows that those sets of people who usually vote Republican cannot be arrayed in a continuum from moderately conservative to extremely conservative. They are on different...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Capitalism' in Bed With Government--Big Time]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/04/16/charles_murray_why_class_warfare_works.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's another thing that's going on, Mary, which is even bigger: capitalism in bed with the government. Big time. The American people look at the way people make zillions of bucks because they can get the regulations they want to, because they get the government to support their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of Jason Richwine]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/348323/defense-jason-richwine</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Monday, May 6, Robert Rector and Jason Richwine of the Heritage Foundation published a study of the fiscal effects of immigration amnesty, arguing that the costs would amount to $6.3 trillion. Controversy greeted the report, but of the normal kind, with critics making specific...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Of Presidents and Duty]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/04/of-presidents-and-duty/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have been examining the inaugural addresses of all the presidents to see how their description of the American project has changed over the years. In the course of this, I ran across an intriguing finding: Presidents don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t talk about their duty nearly as much as they used to. From...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shaky Science Behind Universal Pre-K]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-21/the-shaky-science-behind-obama-s-universal-pre-k.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Study after study shows that theearlier a child begins learning, the better he or she does downthe road," said U.S. President Barack Obama in Feb. 14 speechin Decatur, Georgia. "Every dollar we invest in high-qualityearly education can save more than seven dollars later on --boosting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[At the Ivies, Asians are the New Jews]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/12/at-the-ivies-asians-are-the-new-jews/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has been documented for some time that Asian applicants to the Ivies face a stiff test-score penalty in the admissions process"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'Asians have to get higher SAT scores than members of other races to have an equal chance of admission. But it's one thing to have a higher bar for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Feds Still Don't Have A Clue on Education]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/10/when-will-the-feds-admit-that-they-havent-got-a-clue-about-k-12-education/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Neil Armstrong, Rest in Peace]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/08/neil-armstrong-rip/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why David Brooks Can Look Forward to Old Age]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/08/why-david-brooks-can-look-forward-to-old-age/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[David Brooks has delivered his take on the "you didn't build that" conversation with this as his thesis: As a practical matter, it is useful for young people on their way up to think that their future success is up to them. But as we reach old age, we understand how little we have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Updated Case for Capitalism]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443931404577549223178294822.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's r'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';'sum'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';' at Bain should be a slam dunk. He has been a successful capitalist, and capitalism is the best thing that has ever happened to the material condition of the human race. From the dawn of history until the 18th century, every society in the world was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Horrendous Political Gaffe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/07/un-american/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s horrendous political gaffe last week - "You didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t build that" - triggered the same reaction I had when he insisted on pushing through Obamacare. Then, I had the creepy feeling that I was living in an occupied country. American politics didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t work that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why We Dislike the New Upper Class]]></title>
							<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/02/07/the-new-upper-class-and-the-real-reason-we-dislike-them/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Pew Foundation discovered in a recent poll that tensions over inequality in wealth now outrank tensions over race and immigration. But income inequality isn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t really the problem. A new upper class is the problem. And their wealth isn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t what sets them apart or creates so much...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New American Divide]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577170733817181646.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is coming apart. For most of our nation's history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere else in the world'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'for whites, anyway. "The more opulent citizens take great care not to stand aloof from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Drop in Crime: Keep Locking 'Em Up]]></title>
							<link>http://blog.american.com/2011/12/keep-locking-em-up/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Charles Murray</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I got into a good-natured argument with my friend Pete Wehner of the Ethics and Public Policy Center over lunch last week about the importance of incarceration in explaining the gratifying drop in crime since the 1990s. Pete cited some credible technical analyses (summarized in John...]]></description>
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