WSJ.com.
New York Times: No.
The Times reviews numerous books, both in its main pages and its Book Review section, sometimes even reviewing one book twice. But the
NYT has not reviewed Facing Reality. From June 15, 2021, Charles Murray’s name has been mentioned only once on NYTimes.com, in a letter to the editor defending the banning of bad thinkers like Charles Murray from speaking on campus. What the critics call an abandonment of A.C.L.U.’s principles reflects, in fact, a growing awareness of many within the A.C.L.U. that speech and equality are sometimes in conflict, and that context matters.
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John McWhorter, [Email him/Tweet him] who teaches at Columbia, is one of a handful of blacks who write sensible things about race. He complains that the media bellow whenever police kill a black man but are silent when they kill a white man, and worries that claims of “systemic racism” are leading to a movement to exempt blacks from standards.
But Prof. McWhorter’s Substack review of Charles Murray’s latest book,
Facing Reality, is deliberately blind. Its value goes beyond Prof. McWhorter, however, because it’s an explicit statement of the mental prison people on the Left and Right build for themselves and for the country: “I reject facts I don’t like.”
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Donald Rumsfeld, who was Defense Secretary during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, has died at 88.
Rumsfeld is famous for his useful elucidation of three of four possibilities regarding knowledge: Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns the ones we don’t know we don’t know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.