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Category Archives: Amy Wax
The Amy Wax Debates
In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote: My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary … Continue reading
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The Amy Wax Hero System
Two voices speak in the Amy Wax record. Amy Wax published a book in 2009 that hedged every hard claim it made. Race, Wrongs, and Remedies grants that past discrimination caused present disparities, grants the tort logic behind reparations, cites … Continue reading
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The Amy Wax Voice
Amy Wax (b. 1953) speaks the way a litigator argues. She trained as a neurologist before she trained as a lawyer, and both disciplines show in how she talks. She builds a case. She states a thesis, marshals evidence, anticipates … Continue reading
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Covenant Against Empire: The Project of Yoram Hazony
Part Two Yoram Reuben Hazony (b. 1964) belongs to a small group of contemporary thinkers who build not only books but movements. He writes philosophy, founds institutes, recruits donors, organizes conferences, and places himself at the center of a global … Continue reading
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‘DEI in Science and Medicine: Missing Metrics and Measures’
‘The War on Science: Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process‘ (July 29, 2025) The chapter “DEI in Science and Medicine: Missing Metrics and Measures” appears in the … Continue reading
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Amy Wax & Nathan Cofnas: The Parallels & Differences
Both began as careful technical scholars and ended as public polemicists treated as discredited within their original institutional homes. The shape of the trajectory is the shared fact. The substantive content of the turn, the timing, and the institutional response … Continue reading
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A Literary Analysis Of Amy Wax
Amy Wax’s prose changes more than her positions do. Reading the forty-plus pieces in sequence shows a writer whose convictions stay roughly stable from 1996 through 2026 while her relationship to the page, the reader, and the academy shifts in … Continue reading
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Nathan Cofnas: The Auditor at the Border
Part Two Born in 1987 to Jewish parents, philosopher of biology Nathan Cofnas said in a Dec. 4, 2023 interview: “I grew up on the upper west side of Manhattan, a world headquarters of political correctness. I went to school … Continue reading
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Amy Wax: Truth, Transgression, and the Modern University
Part Two Part Three Amy Laura Wax is a pressure point inside the modern university, a figure through whom deeper institutional contradictions become visible. Her biography tracks a classic ascent through the highest tiers of American meritocracy. Having secured that … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Supporters Of Amy Wax In Her Battle With UPenn Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are working overtime among Amy Wax’s defenders—conservative academics, free-speech lawyers, heterodox thinkers, alumni donors, and online dissident networks—right now. With her sanctions upheld, her half-pay suspension in place, the discrimination lawsuit dismissed on appeal, and the … Continue reading
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