What is going on at Yale Law School?
From my perspective as someone who has become familiar with Amy Chua only recently, what is going on is your typical college campus cancel culture story. Amy Chua authored Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and is a political moderate wary of tribalism, and is now the target of ideologically progressive students, administrators, activists, and news media. The push against her is due to her affiliation with Brett Kavanaugh (speaking in support of him and sending law students to clerk for him), her support for stern&#x2F;focused parenting that is (relatively more) common among Asian parents, and because she is not going along with the progressive monoculture on college campuses.<p>While those are the true motivations in my opinion, the attacks against her are built around a different set of issues, which are allegations against her husband of improper behavior that remain unproven (and never brought to a court of law to my knowledge), and are being used as a guilt by association to attack Chua. There are further allegations that Chua herself did the same to a lesser extent by hosting occasional dinner parties with students invited (which frankly seems normal among Professor-grad student relations), and those too remain unproven. It’s all one big ball of character assassination attempts with nothing concrete beyond repeated attention drawn to it by news articles like this.<p>For those not familiar with Chua, I recommend listening to her yourself on one of the many podcasts she’s appeared on. For example she’s been on podcasts from Vox, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Megyn Kelly, Coleman Hughes, and a Chris Hayes. I found her to be intelligent, articulate, and insightful. She represents a diverse voice that colleges desperately need today and I hope Yale doesn’t make the mistake of diminishing her role in the community based solely on flimsily allegations and social pressures.