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Tenured Professor Amy Wax, Under Siege for ‘Truth Telling’ on Race, Makes Her Case

Can the tenure system at America’s universities survive the campaign of a critic of academia’s reigning ideology?

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A.R. Hoffman Interviews Amy Wax at the offices of The New York Sun, March 17, 2023. Derlis Chavarria via New York Sun
A.R. HOFFMAN
A.R. HOFFMAN

This article has been updated.

The future of tenure in American higher education could turn on the fate of a septuagenarian professor who teaches law at the University of Pennsylvania who has an intense mien and history of inflammatory opinions of which she has no regrets.

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A.R. HOFFMAN
A.R. HOFFMAN

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law degree from Stanford.

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