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The Megyn Kelly Show

Amy Chua on the Climate on Campuses, Political Tribalism, and Being a "Tiger Mom" | Ep. 46

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.632.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by author and professor Amy Chua, to discuss cosmopolitan elitism, the current climate on college campuses, her experience defending Brett Kavanaugh, cancel culture, self-doubt and confidence, reflecting on being a "Tiger Mom" and the value of hard work and more. Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show. Today on the program

0:16.2

we've got Amy Shua. You know who she is. She is a professor. She's the John M. Duff

0:23.3

professor of law at Yale Law School. She's one of their most popular professors for reasons

0:28.6

that will become obvious to you. She's married to another Yale professor and she's got two

0:33.5

young daughters while they're in their 20s now who are ones that double Harvard person,

0:37.5

ones that Harvard Yale person. So she's done pretty well in raising really smart kids.

0:41.7

She also happens to have written a couple of years ago the book, Battle Him of the Tiger

0:46.7

Mother. Talking about the difference between her approach and the approach of many Chinese

0:52.4

moms and she says that that can include people who are not Chinese and more Western parents

0:56.8

who are more like protect little Johnny's feelings. She's got really fun parenting thoughts

1:02.0

and she took a beating for some of them but she's really honest and owns who she is. So

1:05.6

you're going to like that piece of the conversation. She also happens to have predicted Donald

1:09.9

Trump's win. She understands one thing that most people don't. That's Tribes. Tribalism.

1:15.9

She wrote a whole book on it and has a very interesting view on how we got to where we

1:20.3

are as this country and whether we're going to go more tribal as things go on now that

1:25.4

Trump is lost and Biden's going to be sworn in. So this is somebody who's at an elite university.

1:31.1

She's going to talk about the partisanship there. What it's like to be a conservative

1:34.3

on Yale campus. Can you imagine? She's got some thoughts on how things have changed from

1:38.6

just a few years ago and I think you're going to love her. We'll get to her in one second.

1:42.6

But first, I shared a hot story a couple of weeks ago and it nearly crashed the scoremaster

1:47.7

website. The story is that the average American has 97.97 that they can quickly add to their

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