Review excerpt:
It will take years of careful debate to separate the valid insights of The Bell Curve from its failures. And by that time, most of today's instant commentary will seem silly. It's sad that this troubling book was released into such a rancorous era, when so many liberals are foul-tempered and so many conservatives, sensing the wind at their backs, are vengeful. Anyone who reads The Bell Curve in an open-minded spirit will long for a calm rebuttal to disprove its terrible vision.
David Brooks delivered the Bradley Lecture "How the New Elite Is Changing American Culture" at AEI.
Charles Murray, the author of Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980, is the Bradley Fellow at AEI. Richard J. Herrnstein held the Edgar Pierce Chair in Psychology at Harvard University until his death in 1994.
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