Amy Chua, Yale Law School, and the Problem With Whistleblowing – The Atlantic
Every striver who ever slipped the rank of their birth to ascend to a higher order has shared the capacity to ingratiate themselves with their betters. What the truly exceptional ones have in common is the ability to connect not only with their superiors but also with their peers and inferiors. And only the rarest talents among them can bond authentically not just transactionally with the people who will help them be who they want to be in the world. It s a preternatural, almost Promethean gift if you have it, and Amy Chua does.
Thus begins the scandal dubbed dinner-party-gate, the latest in the annals of Amy Chua, Yale Law s very own Tiger Mom, whose infamous defense of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was the dinner-party-gate of its day approximately three years ago. Then, as now, Chua s differences with some denizens of her milieu played out in the press, vituperations, allegations, insinuations, and all.
Read if you’re interested. Actually, I’m not terribly. YLS should just leave Amy Chua alone, FFS.