In
Commentary in April 2007, Charles Murray, the coauthor of
The Bell Curve (1994), again made the claim that “Jews are smarter” than everyone else (Murray, 2007). In
The Bell Curve, he and his late (and Jewish) coauthor, Richard Herrnstein, first presented their argument about the intellectual superiority of “Ashkenazic Jews of European origins,” who “test higher than any other ethnic group (
Murray and Herrnstein, 1994). Jews in America and Britain have an overall IQ mean somewhere between a half and a full standard deviation above the mean, with the source of the difference concentrated in the verbal component.” Murray again makes the argument of an unmistakable “Jewish Genius,” in
Commentary, but now with an explanation: