Charles Murray on Coming Apart

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• HO

  @holbrookth2 · 14 years ago

  "the host" is Peter Robinson, who wrote Reagan's 1987 Tear down this wall address.

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• JA

  @jackjones3657 · 6 years ago

  If there were ever an author who needed to narrate his own book it is Mr. Murray.  His voice is silk.

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• MI

  @michaelshannon9169 · 6 years ago

  There is an eerie spiritual malaise in society today that I'm seeing, especially in young men. They lack spirit, will and resurgence and demonstrate a kind of inwardness that almost exhibits itself like some paralysis of the soul. They dont really know what they are about, they drop out of courses, start and quit everything they start, move back home over and over and dont seem to have any version of a future they'd deem worth striving for in mind. Something has gotten lost, a strain of vigor and tenaciousness, a joy for life and society, a sense of comradery and a communal goal. It's all very sleepy hollow and boomers only response is anger and scorn.

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• AN

  @anthonylemkendorf3114 · 9 years ago

  For an abundance of wisdom brings an abundance of frustration, so whoever increases knowledge increases pain . Eccl <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q3zy4NRzz4&amp;t=78">1:18</a>

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• JA

  @jamie.777 · 7 years ago

  The Cold Reality Spoken here, brings me to tears... We are in Trouble folks, the future is not bright..

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• AN

  @andrjsh · 14 years ago

  Who are we to be &quot;judgmental?&quot; &nbsp;We are the ones that have to live with the consequences of other people&apos;s &quot;inappropriate&quot; choices.

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• ST

  @StateExempt · 13 years ago

  Possibly the greatest social scientist alive today. Hands down.

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• BE

  @bearifiablepau2095 · 7 years ago

  2018 and this interview is as relevant as ever. Six years late but here I am. Thank you Middlebury protesters for illuminating the path to reason, all I had to do was walk the opposite way.

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• CH

  @chrisschons7312 · 8 years ago

  &quot;Belmont had the resources to rebound from the chaos of the sixties, Fishtown did not.&quot; Yep.

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• CH

  @charleshatt1281 · 7 years ago

  Next we need to discuss why it is impossible to support a family on the wages from a menial job and how to change that.

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• BE

  @bearifiablepau2095 · 7 years ago

  Functioning of a free society. The American Constitution will not work without these four foundational virtues: <br>1. Integrity of marriage. <br>2. Industriousness. <br>3. Religiosity.<br>4. Honesty. Plain American honesty. <br>Min. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q3zy4NRzz4&amp;t=1487">24:47</a>

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• ED

  @Edmund007013 · 12 years ago

  What a fascinating and enlightening lecture by Charles Murray. &nbsp;Well worth watching.<br>

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