6. Dirk Van Leeuwen: When Intelligence Becomes Taboo, What Wisdom Do We Lose?

Dirk was raised in a scholarly family, but become curious about the inner worlds of people with 300-word vocabularies. A former special education teacher now working in tech, he remains a lifelong learner, and has become curious in recent years about the subject of intelligence. How did it become so fraught, and why is it necessary to discuss anyway? What can IQ accurately measure and predict — and what can it not? And, as an out-of-the-box thinker, what blind spots does he see on both the political left and right?
In one of the first episodes I ever recorded, I had the pleasure of interviewing my old friend Dirk Van Leeuwen. You can follow him on Twitter @diabloneruda.

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