Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten

Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten


Penn Law's Amy Wax on Being Ousted from Her First-Year Class Over Comments on Race, Performance and Bourgeois Values, Attacks on Free Speech, Criticism of Affirmative Action and Diversity, Anti-Western Colleges

June 20, 2018

Penn Law professor Amy Wax chats with Ben Weingarten about the superiority of bourgeois values, the comments on race and academic performance that got her ousted from teaching her first-year class, the ramifications of her case for academic freedom, Wax's criticism of affirmative action and diversity, the state of free speech on college campuses, grappling with uncomfortable truths, the anti-Western nature of the modern academy and much more. Show notes, transcript and more at benweingarten.com/bigideas.