Amy Wax: Fighting the Corruption of Universities

Professor Amy Wax is a scholar of law and society who is noted for intellectual rigor and fidelity to data and empirical fact. She is also a proponent of academic freedom, working to help her students understand a spectrum of ideas.

For this—for doing her job—she ran afoul of her university, which has now subjected her to extraordinary sanction. American academia is now openly hostile not only to free inquiry, but also to logic and objectivity.

Many would have thrown up their hands in despair. Professor Wax, however, chooses to stay and fight. In this interview, Amy Wax explains why she is not leaving the “woke madrasas” which American universities have become. If academic freedom has a future in America, it is because of brave scholars like Professor Wax.

The painting is "Allegory of Rhetoric," by Laurent de La Hyre, painted in 1650.