Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 08:35:31 -0800
To: Multiple recipients of list <pen-l@anthrax.ecst.csuchico.edu> Subject: A recent Bibl. on Murray & Herrnstein FWD

An Initial Bibliography on Recently Published Articles/Editorials from the National Press on Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve (and related subjects).

American Psychologist. `Expert Performance: Its Structure and Acquisition.' by Anders Ericsson and Neal Charness. 49:8:725-747. August, 1994.

Chicago Tribune. `An Anthropological Look at Race and Intelligence.' by Michael D. Lieber. October 23, 1994.

Discovery. November, 1994. While not related specifically to the The Bell Curve this issue looks at the question of race in depth from a scientific viewpoint and is worth looking at.

Denver Post. `Genetic Racism?' by Robert Boyd (Knight-Ridder News Service). October 23, 1994. p.21A

Economist. `How Clever Is Charles Murray?' October 22, 1994. p.29- 30.

Forbes. `For whom the bell tolls.' by Peter Brimelow. October 24, 1994. p.153-163.

• `Disadvantaging The Advantaged,' by Peter Brimelow. November 21, 1994. p.52-57. (note: although not specifically on the The Bell Curve it gives a good example of the social implications of Murray's theories).

Nation. `Inequity Quotient.' 259:15:516. November 7, 1994.

• `Minority Report' by Christopher Hitchens. 259:18:640. November 28, 1994.
• `Herrstein and Murray: The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life.' by Adolph Reed Jr. 259:18:654-662. November 28, 1994.
• `Beating a Dead Monkey.' (Book review of The Moral Animal by Robert Wright. Pantheon Press; Race, Evolution and Culture by J. Philippe Rushton. Transaction Press; The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science by Pat Shipman. The review is by Susan Sperling. 259:18:663-665. November 28, 1994.

New Republic. `Race: An Apologia: Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein; A Response: (a list of authors). October 31, 1994. (virtually the whole issue is dedicated to the discussion of Murray and Herrstein's The Bell Curve.)

Newsweek. `IQ: A Hard Look at a Controversial New Book on Race, Class and Success.' October 24, 1994. pp.53-62. Cover Story.

New York Review of Books. `Apocalypse Now.' by Alan Ryan. November 17, 1994. p.7-11.

New York Times. `Bell Curve Critics Say Early I.Q. Isn't Destiny.' by Peter Passell. November 9, 1994. p.B10

New York Times Book Review. `What is Intelligence and Who Has it?' by Malcolm W. Browne. October 16, 1994. pp. 3-.

New York Times Magazine. `The Most Dangerous Conservative.' by Jason Deparle. October 9, 1994. pp.48-78. Cover Story.

Rolling Stone. `Professors of Hate.' by Adam Miller. October 20, 1994.

Science. `Genes and Behavior.' June 17, 1994. Most of the issue is dedicated to the question of the inheritance of human behavior. It does not focus specifically on race and intelligence, but is a pretty good indicator of what main-line geneticists think today about the inheritance of human behavior. Issue includes 12 articles. The introductory piece by Charles Mann and a later piece by Plomin, Owen and McGuffin are especially recommended.

TIME Magazine. `For Whom The Bell Curves.' October 24, 1994. p.66- 7.

Transition. `Passing for White, Passing for Black.'

Utne Reader. `Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity.' NovDecember, 1994.

Village Voice. `Behind the Bell Curve: Tracing the Roots of Charles Murray's Race Management.' by James Ridgeway. November 15, 1994.

Wall Street Journal. `The Coming White Underclass.' by Charles Murray. October 29, 1993. P.A-14. (provides an interesting perspective on the current debate).