Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty

查尔斯·默里 - 人类成就与自由的未来

Dwarkesh Podcast

2020-10-28

1 小时 52 分钟
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I ask Charles Murray about Human Accomplishment, By The People, and The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead.   Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript here. Follow Charles on Twitter. Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Timestamps (00:00) - Intro  (01:00) - Writing Human Accomplishment  (06:30) - The Lotka curve, age, and miracle years  (10:38) - Habits of the greats (hard work)  (15:22) - Focus and explore in your 20s  (19:57) - Living in Thailand  (23:02) - Peace, wealth, and golden ages  (26:02) - East, west, and religion  (30:38) - Christianity and the Enlightenment  (34:44) - Institutional sclerosis  (37:43) - Antonine Rome, decadence, and declining accomplishment  (42:13) - Crisis in social science  (45:40) - Can secular humanism win?  (55:00) - Future of Christianity  (1:03:30) - Liberty and accomplishment  (1:06:08) - By the People  (1:11:17) - American exceptionalism  (1:14:49) - Pessimism about reform  (1:18:43) - Can libertarianism be resuscitated?  (1:25:18) - Trump's deregulation and judicial nominations  (1:28:11) - Beating the federal government   (1:32:05) - Why don't big companies have a litigation fund?  (1:34:05) - Getting around the Halo effect  (1:36:07) - What happened to the Madison fund?  (1:37:00) - Future of liberty  (1:41:00) - Public sector unions  (1:43:43) - Andrew Yang and UBI  (1:44:36) - Groundhog Day  (1:47:05) - Getting noticed as a young person  (1:50:48) - Passage from Human Accomplishment Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkesh.com/subscribe
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  • I was not only convinced by that time that religiosity was extremely important to the particularly Christian religiosity,

  • extremely important to Western civilization and what had gone on.

  • I was also beginning to think that secular humanism didn't have the staying power that it needs.

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  • Charles Murray needs another introduction.

  • So let's begin with human accomplishment, the pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences.

  • I first want to ask you, what motivated you to write this book?

  • Well, a lot of times while I was writing it, I wondered that myself.

  • It was incredibly difficult to write.

  • The short answer is the back in the 1980s, mid 1980s,