What Is Going On at Yale Law School? | The New Yorker
The question has arisen, in online comments sections and on Twitter, why anyone is even talking about Amy Chua. Who cares about a parenting memoirist s removal from a law-school teaching roster? The answer is, in part, because this story manages to touch on seemingly every single cultural flashpoint of the past few years. Chua s critics see a story about #MeToo because of her husband, but also because Chua supported the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, even after he was accused of sexual assault. Meanwhile, Chua s defenders see a morality tale about liberal cancel culture. What they ve done to you is SOP standard operating procedure for conservative allies but chills me to the bone nonetheless, a supporter tweeted at her, earlier this month. Megyn Kelly weighed in, tweeting, Make no mistake: this is retribution for her support of Brett Kavanaugh, & it is disgusting. Chua s allies have also suggested that anti-Asian bias is involved. The woke academy reserves a special vitriol for minority faculty who don t toe the line politically, Niall Ferguson, a historian, tweeted.
If Amy Chua doesn’t get another book out of this, she’s not really trying.