Political scientist and author Charles Murray says a late-in-life spiritual awakening has changed the way he views the world, science, and society, and that a loss of faith in the West has left a dangerous cultural vacuum.
Murray recently spoke with Jan Jekielek, host of Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders,” about this shift in outlook and discussed his book “Taking Religion Seriously,” which was published in October.
A senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and co-author of the 1994 best-seller “The Bell Curve,” Murray described a shift from detached secularism to belief in a “mysterious force” that “created an intentional universe that permits life.”…