The Tiger Mom Won't Stop Roaring

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

It’s hard to think of an institution in American life that’s more broken than higher education. As universities have abandoned core liberal principles like free speech, bending to students’ demands for censorship, perhaps the most striking feature of all has been the cowardice and silence of tenured professors. Yale Law professor Amy Chua is not one of them. Since Chua wrote her bestselling parenting memoir Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mother in 2011, she has been no stranger to controversy. She wrote a book, The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America, about why certain cultural groups succeed—and was accused of “cultural racism.” She refused to recant her support for Brett Kavanaugh—and was accused of misogyny. The list goes on. None of this has stopped her from speaking her mind. Today, why Amy Chua remains an optimist in the face of unprecedented political tribalism; how her students continue to inspire her even as she’s lost faith in Yale; and why she did, indeed, threaten to burn her daughter’s stuffed animals if she didn’t practice her piano perfectly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Barry Weiss and this is honestly.
0:05.0	Sometimes I wonder if there's any institution in America that's more broken than higher education is.
0:11.0	Universities have abandoned core liberal principles like free speech and due process and open inquiry
0:18.0	with a liberal demands for censorship and safetyism.
0:22.0	Perhaps the most striking feature of all of it has been the
0:25.4	silence and the acquiescence of so many tenured professors in the face of this
0:30.3	hostile ideological takeover.
0:33.0	Amy Chua is not one of them.
0:35.0	Amy has been an extraordinarily popular professor at Yale Law
0:41.0	for more than 20 years, but it hasn't always been a smooth ride.
0:45.0	One of the most controversial figures of 2011 was not a politician or a celebrity, but a mom.
0:51.0	Amy Chua ignited a firestorm by sharing... From the cover of Time magazine
0:56.1	to the bestseller lists, Amy Chua's book Battle Him of the Tiger Mother about strict
1:01.2	Asian parenting has exploded.
1:03.2	She first rose to national prominence and national controversy in 2011 when she published
1:08.6	a massively successful book called Battle Him of the Tiger Mother. A memoir that compared permissive soft Western
1:15.8	parenting with her Tiger mom style, strict, relentless, and demanding.
1:20.8	Amy Chua doesn't believe in playdates, sleepovers, she even threatened to burn her daughter's
1:25.9	stuffed animals if she didn't play the piano perfectly.
1:28.9	Why Chinese Mothers are Superior, that's what the Wall Street Journal put over excerpts from the memoir of Amy
1:33.8	Chwa who calls herself a tiger mother because of restrict parenting methods.
1:38.0	It was a type of parenting rooted in the way she was raised as the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents.
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