Josh Hammer: The persecution of Amy Wax: In 2017, Prof Amy Wax coauthored an op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer that lamented the decline of traditional bourgeoisie values across American society and suggested this decline is blameworthy for many of America's present social maladies. Almost immediately, 4,000 people signed a petition calling for Wax's ouster; 33 of her Penn Law colleagues also condemned her instantaneously. Wax, a vocal critic of mass migration and skeptic of multiculturalism, admirably refused to be silenced. She ruffled more feathers when she observed that, in her two decades of teaching experience, black students rarely finish in the top half of graduating law school classes.

Statistics, it seems, are racist.

For two and a half years, a period spanning successive Penn Law deanships, Wax has been subject to a probe into her alleged wrongthink and misdeeds.

The judgment finally came this week: Penn Law suspended Wax for a year, reduced her pay for that year by 50%, permanently stripped her of her endowed chair and summer pay, and publicly reprimanded her. Interestingly, as Sibarium scooped, Penn Law had previously offered Wax a settlement that would have lessened her penalty on the condition that she not "disparage the University," not sue Penn, and not publicly disclose the exculpatory evidence she had presented during the years-long probe. Translation: Shut your mouth and this problem will go away quickly.

https://www.newsweek.com/amy-wax-inflection-point-elite-higher-education-opinion-1960170
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