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This story is the fourth in a series of profiles on Stanford’s 2021-22 transfer students. The unique cohort of 60+ undergraduates, who range in age from 18 to 51, brings a multitude of perspectives and life experiences to campus. ....
objective truth, you will like Charles Murray s new book, pub date June 15: Murray writes two distinctly different kinds of book, long and short. In the long books (most recently Real Education, are more journalistic and less challenging for a reader not well-acquainted with statistics. (And I just noticed, looking up Real Education for the link, that its full title includes the word reality, just as this new book s title does. Charles Murray, like your genial diarist, clings to a fusty, absurdly old-fashioned belief in objective reality quite independent of our feelings, wo wo wo feelings.) This latest Murray book is one of the shorts: 125 pages of main text, with three pages of introduction, twenty pages of endnotes, four pages of maps, and a five-page index. There are several tables and a small handful of graphs (this one my favorite); ....