I’m delighted to welcome Charles Murray into the Summer Corner mix. Charles is author of Losing Ground and What It Means to Be a Libertarian, among other books, and co-author of The Bell Curve. His next tome comes out in the fall: It’s called Human Accomplishment : The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (no small project there!). He hangs his hat at the American Enterprise Institute as W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom. Among many other things he’s done and places he’s seen, Charles (who is from Newton, Iowa–thank you, Michael Novak!) was a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand in the late ’60s. He has, of course, written for NRODT and NRO (in our embryonic days!) over the years (see here and here, for instance). Obviously, Charles Murray is a sagacious heavyweight and we are quite excited to have him. Check in The Corner often for his analysis and insights.