At this Bradley Lecture, Charles Murray will discuss how the divergence in class is affecting American life and what we can expect in the future.

Charles Murray has prepared a public-use Excel file containing the data on SuperZips and the rest of America's zip codes that he discusses in his new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010.

Charles Murray proposes four original solutions in response to the problems posed by the growing class divide among whites in America, as detailed in his bestselling book, "Coming Apart".

What’s important now is not to let what happened to Fishtown be ignored. For whatever reasons, the culture that used to characterize working-class America — indeed, that made working-class America the spine of America’s civic culture — has come apart. Recognizing that this has happened is the indispensable first step in figuring out what to do next.

In "Coming Apart," Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.

As critics see it, the loss of our common culture is a result not of cultural changes but of shifts in policy and the economy. There are two problems with this line of argument.

The haves in our society are increasingly cocooned in a system that makes it easy for their children to continue to be haves. That said, four steps might weaken the isolation of, at least, the children of the new upper class.