On this episode of Honestly, Yale law professor Amy Chua reflects 14 years later on the firestorm around her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, discusses the vibe shift around free speech on elite college campuses, and tells Bari what she first saw in her student J.D. Vance long before his rise to the vice presidency.
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Yale Law was always the more leftist of the major law schools, but for the past 20 years it has become an idea zoo. Chua has a lot of guts given the repressive, 30s Germany-like repression there. I would think 5 times before hiring someone from that environment.
As a fan of The tiger Mother" I was a little disappointed in this podcast. I felt that Amy hedged her responses and wasn't as candid as she could have been.. She was (admirably) deft at avoiding potentially conflictual areas. Maybe she needs to do this if she wants to stay at Yale Law and also for her own equanimity. But what I loved most about her book, was the straightforwardness and seeming lack of concern for what others might think.