Charles Murray

Political scientist, author, and F. A. Hayek Chair Emeritus in Cultural Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He wrote Taking Religion Seriously, a personal examination of his movement from agnosticism toward Christian belief.

Charles Murray’s Evidence-Based Case for Taking Religion Seriously

Charles Murray, the social scientist and author of Taking Religion Seriously, argues that a lifetime of casual agnosticism has become intellectually untenable. In a conversation with Peter Robinson, he says evidence and questions that materialism does not resolve—especially consciousness, near-death experiences, the historical grounding of the Gospels, and the Shroud of Turin—have led him to take God and Christianity seriously, though not to claim settled faith. Murray’s case is cumulative: religious belief, he argues, should be judged for its truth rather than defended merely for its civic utility.

Hoover InstitutionAug 17, 202614 min read