A 1974 clip from Firing Line of William Shockley, the Bell Labs genius who gave us transistors and helped birth Silicon Valley, who was at this point sadly tarnishing his reputation with a second act as a quack attempting to link race, class and IQ, with African-Americans not faring too well in his theories nor anyone who was an unskilled laborer. It’s difficult to be angry at Shockley for his bigotry or Bobby Fischer for his ugly anti-Semitism because they were both clearly deeply ill, but how strange the human brain is that such genius and idiocy can reside in the same organ.