Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty | The Lunar Society #10

I ask Charles Murray about Human Accomplishment, By The People, and The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead. Podcast website + Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/charles-murray Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3QFnF76 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3A9z8of Follow me on Twitter to be notified of future content: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp Follow Charles Murray: https://twitter.com/charlesmurray Read Human Accomplishment: https://amzn.to/3pu6ZUd Read The Curmudgeon's Guide: https://amzn.to/3pvwFjl Read By the People: https://amzn.to/3PBRcx5 TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Writing Human Accomplishment 6:30 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 1:37:00 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