Murray made his reputation with 1984’s enormously influential Losing Ground, which argued that government welfare programs end up perpetuating the problems they were created to solve. If anything, his prominence points to the mainstream media’s continued acceptance of race science and right-wing “experts,” many of whom have benefited from publishers’ confused notion of what constitutes a diversity of viewpoints. Or that they repeatedly cited Mankind Quarterly, which Charles Lane, writing in The New York Review of Books, described as “a notorious journal of ‘racial history’ founded, and funded, by men who believe in the genetic superiority of the white race.” The real problem was that people were pointing out that Murray’s work was based on shoddy evidence and racist journals and thus should not be taken seriously. Or, for that matter, that Murray’s findings have been thoroughly debunked. Never mind that Murray isn’t a geneticist or biologist. The substance of Murray’s work was immaterial-what really mattered is that he was being silenced for pursuing “scientific” inquiry. It was a clever rhetorical trick, one frequently employed by those defending the allegedly canceled. “IQ is not one of my concerns and racial differences in IQ is absolutely not one of my concerns, but a person having his reputation destroyed for honestly discussing data-that deeply concerns me.” “When I did read and did some more research on him, I came to think that he was probably the most unfairly maligned person in my lifetime,” Harris said. The co-author of 1994’s controversial The Bell Curve, which contained a chapter arguing that genetics caused blacks to have lower IQs than whites, was really a victim of political correctness, Harris said. Two years ago, the atheist Sam Harris told Ezra Klein that Charles Murray was cancel culture’s patient zero.

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