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Fox, Margalit. "Arthur R. Jensen Dies at 89; Set Off Debate About I.Q." The New
     York Times, 1 Nov. 2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/science/
     arthur-r-jensen-who-set-off-debate-on-iq-dies.html. Accessed 22 Mar. 2020.

Margalit Fox details the significance of the late Arthur Jensen's life and career in this strangely controversial obituary. Jensen is most known for his 1969 work titled How Much Can We Boost IQ
and Scholastic Achievement? which sparked outrage on campuses across an America in full swing with the Civil Rights Era. Fox credits Jensen with effectively reviving the racial cognition debate in America and contributing to similar works decades later such as The Bell Curve. Beyond this, she even delves into the history and aspects of the intelligence debate, directly referencing ideas such as general intelligence, denoted as "g" (Fox). However, as she is still writing in the context of an obituary, Fox returns her article to Jensen and includes comments from both his supporters and critics in order to highlight that despite his controversial career, he was still an apt and important social scientist. Nonetheless, it is clear that Jensen's posthumous attention can be attributed to the significance of his lasting mark on the academic world.

Jensen, Arthur Robert. "How much can we boost IQ and scholastic achievement?"
     Harvard Educational Review, vol. 39, no. 1, 1969, pp. 1-123. APA
     PsycNet, doi:10.17763/haer.39.1.l3u15956627424k7. Accessed 22 Mar.
     2020.

Arthur Jensen's most famous and controversial work, How Much Can We Boost IQ
and Scholastic Achievement?, was published in 1969 in the Harvard Educational Review. Despite being in such an elite journal, Jensen tackles many issues that psychologists and social scientists of the time had struggled with, mostly taking unorthodox stances regarding potential racial genetic groups and their effects on intelligence. Being backed by numerous studies and scraps of data, Jensen calls for his peers to consider the possible relationships between race, genetics, and intelligence (Jensen). As this article managed to immediately spark near-unprecedented controversy in the academic world, Jensen forever became associated with this work for both better and worse. As other famous related works cited Jensen's studies, he is often credited with reviving the race and intelligence debate in America. The response has been both praise from certain self-imposed "free thinkers" and social scientists as well as claims of racism from "anti-hate" organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center. In every aspect, this work remains a cornerstone of academic dissent in American history.