Why We Must (Almost) Always Let People Speak Their Minds

Especially when we don’t want to hear it.

Jeff Valdivia

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Students turn their backs on Charles Murray. Source: The Atlantic

On March 2, 2017, at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, Charles Murray was scheduled to speak. You’ve probably heard his name before. Murray has been labeled as a racist and bigot, in particular for claiming in his book The Bell Curve that there are intelligence (IQ) differences between

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Jeff Valdivia

Following my curiosity and hoping it will lead me to wisdom. I write about psychology, meditation, self-development, and spirituality.