Charles Alan Murray is an American paleoconservative and paleolibertarian leaning political scientist, author, columnist, and pundit. He first became well known for his Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950?1980 in 1984, which discussed the American welfare system. He is best known for his controversial book The Bell Curve, co-authored with Richard Herrnstein in 1994, which argues that class and race are linked with intelligence. Murray has also written In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government, What It Means to be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation, Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950, and In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State. He published Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality in 2008. Murray's articles have appeared in Commentary Magazine, The New Criterion, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. currently working as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, DC. 

January 8th, 1943 in Newton (Age 81)