Excellent stuff!... and my first significant exposure / listen to Harris.
Observations:
-a very powerful ten-minute intro from Harris, esp. starting at minute 7 or 8, including concerns about fundamentalism and hypocrisy in its response to The Bell Curve (including not reading it...here are the book summaries and here are my responses to some responses to Murray)
-interesting on the Left's past passion for IQ and the history of the SAT back in the day at minute 46
-57:30
on the messiness of race as a variable, something he talks about in
Losing Ground (when he carefully focuses on blacks) and Coming Apart
(when he talks about whites)
-1:02 Murray notes that he and H started the name, "the Flynn effect"!
-starts
with 1:08 on groups vs, individuals...and since Murray is a
libertarian, the emphasis on individuals is paramount for him (although
not so much for other folks-- and maybe that's why their inferences go
south so easily?)
-1:12:30 Harris asks why go there?
(Just before that, I love Murray's reference to his critics "doing the
Lord's work"!) Murray's answer: if policy is based on groups (e.g.,
race), then it's going to be wrong-headed (impractical and unethical)--
and if we're going to pound group differences, you're going to get
identity politics.
-and then at 1:27, he gets to
summaries of Coming Apart (absolutely necessary to read if you're into
inequality, social problems, etc.)
-finally, Murray's
advocacy of UBI at 1:52, his account/thoughts on Middlebury at 2:02, and
a poignant/powerful ending on the benefits of such scurrilous attacks
at 2:15
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