What we come away with from the Sun’s sit down with Amy Wax are the implications for the tenure system. Ms. Wax is not accused of any misbehavior or impropriety. It is purely about whether her beliefs and the words with which she articulates them are enough for the school to breach her tenure contract. Let every American who believes in tenure as a protection of free inquiry perk up to her predicament. Especially those who don’t agree with her.

The University of Pennsylvania Law School is seeking to sack Ms. Wax — via what it calls a “major sanction” —  because it does not like what she says. It’s not surprising. She tells our A.R. Hoffman that women are less knowledgeable than men and Glenn Loury — who both disagrees with what she has said and defends her right to say it — that she can’t recall a black student finishing at the top of her class. She has spoken roughly of fellow Americans.