In April of 2018, I interviewed Amy Wax on the IU podcast Through the Gates. She was visiting IU as a guest of the Tocqueville Program. Her lecture was entitled “What is Happening to the Family and Why?”

She spoke about it on the podcast, focusing on topics like sexual and moral deregulation and their impacts.

Toward the end of the podcast, she spoke about threats to her research and teaching activities at Penn. She argues that a hands-off approach to free speech may not be enough. Rather, she thinks that universities need to inculcate academic values (“a higher standard than just free speech”).

At this writing, Wax has been sanctioned more severely by Penn. Various groups defending academic freedom have criticized Penn’s move.

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