The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

An interesting exploration of some hot-button issues in our society today. I learned a lot from the "Trans" chapter and the author makes some compelling points. My one criticism would be that the author at one point criticises someone for cherry-picking "unusual events" as if they were commonplace, when the same thing could be said of the examples highlighted in this book, such as American students demanding the resignation of a professor. All in all, I enjoyed the book and was able to get through it in a couple of days which suggests it was well-paced.

If anything should be made mandatory reading in schools in hope to saving us, then this is it. His insights and being able to tackle trickle issues with eloquent language and clearly well studied and thought out concerns is thought provoking to say the least. If you read this book, and find nothing challenging about the points he makes, and the contradictions in todays identity politics, then I have to wonder how you ended up in that place. It's got to be pretty dark.

A good dose of common sense. Murray's best point is the incredible amount of time we waste on these non-issues while there are more important things to discuss. Some of his examples went on way too long.