"An Important Book Less Because of What It Says than Because of What It Omits"

"Murray nostalgically regrets the lost America of his 1950s Midwestern boyhood. But to describe in any true way how that America was lost would require a reckoning of how that America was made. Unwilling, as he acknowledges, to submit his politics to the check of uncongenial evidence, Murray prefers to avoid encountering the evidence that might shake his politics."

David Frum at The Daily Beast writes an epic review of Charles Murray's Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.

In The New York Times, Paul Krugman joins in on the criticism of Murray.