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Yale Law professor. West Lafayette & El Cerrito High. Author of debut novel THE GOLDEN GATE, out now.

New Haven, CT
Joined April 2011
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@amychua
Amy Chua
4 months
Got this email today — encouraged by the state of literary criticism among our youth!
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Amy Chua
3 years
Some of you may have seen the YDN hit job on me, full of false allegations. I did not violate any agreement, nor have I been hosting wild parties during COVID. On the contrary, what I HAVE done is comforted a small handful of students who reached out to me in moments of crisis...
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Amy Chua
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As some of you may know, there have been stories about me in the recent news cycle. All the claims are outrageous and 100% false. Here is a statement I released to the Yale Law School community:
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Amy Chua
6 years
Hi everyone. I’m sorry I haven’t been posting. I went to the ER in late August, was hospitalized for three weeks, underwent major surgery, and was just released a few days ago. I’m fine, but it’s going to take me months to recover.
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Amy Chua
3 years
Today I woke up with a pit in my stomach, wondering if I’d done something crazy. Sending a letter to my entire faculty?! But then it hit me, maybe they had no qualms pushing me under the bus because they assumed an Asian American women would never fight back. Well THINK AGAIN.
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Amy Chua
3 years
As the only Asian American woman on the academic faculty, I can’t imagine any other faculty member would be treated with this kind of disrespect and utter lack of due process. I’ve attached the letter I circulated to the entire Yale Law School faculty.
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Amy Chua
6 years
Six weeks out of the hospital and celebrating life with the two newest members of our family!
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Amy Chua
3 years
My faith in objective journalism is restored! This reporter did a deep investigation, pursuing every “anonymous tip” against me and found NO “DINNER PARTIES” let alone any bacchanalia. @tebartl
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Amy Chua
2 years
It was so much fun doing this podcast with @bariweiss ! Our conversation made me realize things I'd never thought about before.
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Honestly with Bari Weiss
2 years
"I think a lot of [Western parents] were starting to worry, 'Wait, have we gone too far?'" @amychua reflects on why her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, struck a nerve, and why she considered suing the @WSJ .
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Amy Chua
3 years
well, my students work hard and have a great positive attitude :)
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Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld
3 years
My mom mentoring her students vs. my mom raising me
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Amy Chua
1 year
My 86 year old dad just got carded at a burger place.
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Amy Chua
3 years
Good morning! I’ve now posted on my website () some of the many many emails sent by students to the Administration on my behalf. There have been times this week when I wanted to just throw in the towel. The powers-that-be are so daunting, and everyone is...
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Amy Chua
3 years
In our foreign policy, for at least half a century, we have been spectacularly blind to the power of tribal politics. 1/
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Amy Chua
3 years
...including after the recent spike in discrimination and violence against Asian Americans, when they felt the school was not supporting them and they had no one else to turn to.
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Amy Chua
2 years
My brilliant student, West Point grad and Army vet Jeremy Hunt just announced this morning he's running for Congress. So impressed and proud to support my students, with their diverse beliefs and desire to make the world a better place!
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Jeremy C. Hunt
2 years
It's official - I'm running for Congress in GA's 2nd district! I’m a next-generation conservative running to preserve the American dream for my family and yours. Join my team today at
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Amy Chua
6 years
LOVED being on @TheView this morning w/such a fabulous group of women & so glad @MeghanMcCain mentioned World Down Syndrome Day! Here's me with my amazing sister Cindy, the star of our family (and fellow tiger cub)!
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Amy Chua
3 years
These emails from some of my current and former students are part of what’s inspiring me.
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Amy Chua
2 years
Had a sudden change of heart on Christmas! Decided not to sell our house in New Haven after all. Realized the extra space could be useful for more dogs and/or future grandkids 🙂
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Amy Chua
3 years
Sophia got married yesterday!! Here's a shot right before the wedding (Mac and Frisky were in it!), and one the morning after the wedding.
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Amy Chua
3 years
I was running my 2 dogs this morning, and a nice older man pulled up, rolled down his window, and asked "Poodles?"
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Amy Chua
3 years
Two world-renowned @nytimes investigative reporters call into serious question the Yale Law administration’s behavior, especially toward its own students, and conclude that “there is no hard proof that Ms. Chua is guilty of what she was originally accused of doing.”
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Amy Chua
3 years
It's clear that the law school acted on me on the basis of "second-hand and unconfirmed accounts of students being invited to dinner parties."
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Amy Chua
1 year
So proud of my younger daughter Lulu, who just got admitted to the New York Bar! Just what we need, another lawyer in our family 🙂
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Amy Chua
6 years
Loved being on the @RubinReport & really enjoyed this thought-provoking conversation among 3 people with very different views--thanks so much for having me on!
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Dave Rubin
6 years
Hour plus on political tribes, victimhood and more with Mr. Skeptic @michaelshermer and Tiger Mom @amychua :
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Amy Chua
2 years
The expiration date is just a scam to get you to buy more. I've eaten expired goods for decades and it only makes you stronger😜
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Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld
2 years
Told my mom to throw out the expired goods that have been in the fridge since the Obama administration and she told me I don't understand "immigrant mentality"
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Amy Chua
3 years
Whatever you think of me, it is so low to go after my daughters. Please leave them alone!
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Jason
3 years
@glycerinebybush @luluchuru I know it’s easy to be a bully on the internet, but it’s another level of mean to be harassing someone who has nothing to do with any of this
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Amy Chua
3 years
True. Perhaps we should be talking about resentment against market dominant minorities and how democracies can fuel ethnic hatred (the theme of my first book, World On Fire) and NOT nonexistent dinner parties with nonexistent federal judges
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Amy Chua
1 year
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT — my first novel is coming out this September! It’s a historical thriller set in the Bay Area (where I grew up!) in 1930 and 1944. It’s called THE GOLDEN GATE.🌉
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Amy Chua
3 years
I was feeling so low and alone, but now I feel so LUCKY to have the honor and privilege of teaching students like these, who have stepped in to support me, often at significant cost to themselves.
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Amy Chua
2 years
Just trying to imagine what the people on the plane are thinking when they see this 🤔
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Gad Saad
2 years
Hey @amychua . Loving your book.
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Amy Chua
6 years
Being on the @RubinReport was one of my favorite recent experiences--many thanks to my good friend @michaelshermer for making the introduction!
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Michael Shermer
6 years
Gay Cake Debate, Political Tribes, & Victimhood—Michael Shermer/Amy Chua with the mighty @RubinReport @amychua is one of the most thoughtful people writing on political conflict today. Her book Political Tribes made me realize moral progress takes awhile.
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Amy Chua
3 years
“There were no dinner parties and no judges; instead, she had students over on a handful of afternoons, in groups of two or three, mostly so they could seek her advice.”
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Amy Chua
3 years
... petrified of standing up to the power of the Dean — and the power of the mob. These emails make it ALL WORTH IT.
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Amy Chua
3 years
We lost our beloved Coco yesterday. She was our first dog, a star of Battle Hymn, and the love of our lives. She lived a long and happy life, and now she is reunited with her sweet sister Pushkin ❤
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Amy Chua
3 years
Thank you! Here are some pages from my chapter on Afghanistan.  As in Vietnam, “we were oblivious to the most important group identities in the region, which do not fall along national lines, but instead are ethnic, tribal, and clan based.”
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Katie Herzog
3 years
The best book I’ve read on why the US continually fails in conflict abroad is @amychua ’s Political Tribes and it basically comes down to this: We don’t know shit about shit
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Amy Chua
3 years
Just to reiterate what I said in my letter to the faculty, I don’t believe I violated *anything* in my 2019 agreement with the Dean. It’s also important to note that the Administration ASKED me last Sept to teach a small group next Fall, a role that specifically contemplates...
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Bari Weiss
3 years
What’s happening to @amychua is a familiar story. Professor thinks for herself —> target on back —> spurious claims about her fitness. What’s unique is that @amychua is standing up and fighting back.
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Amy Chua
3 years
The testimonials are under the Student and Alumni Letters tab, or you can view them directly at .
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Amy Chua
3 years
I can't believe my baby girl is 25! Happy Birthday, Lulu! Make sure you eat long life noodles! @luluchuru
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Amy Chua
6 years
Sophia was among the Yale Law School Class of 2018 that graduated today! So happy my parents+sister Cindy could come!
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Amy Chua
7 years
This is PERFECT by @VanJones68
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Van Jones
7 years
VIDEO: @VanJones68 on #safespaces : "I don't want you to be 'safe'. I want you to be strong." @davidaxelrod 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Amy Chua
5 years
"You give them too much power if you are angry." Just spent the most powerful evening with Anthony Ray Hinton, exonerated after 25 years on death row.
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Amy Chua
3 years
Sophia was just promoted to Captain! We are so so proud. Here's a video of some highlights from her fiancé Tim. I especially love what she says about her sister!
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Timothy Mitchell
3 years
Congrats to @SChuaRubenfeld on promoting to Captain. So proud of you! @luluchuru @amychua
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Amy Chua
3 years
Just got this cute email from my 85 year old mom!
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Amy Chua
9 months
I'm so proud! This is about my father, and every word is true!
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Fermat's Library
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In 1971, Leon Chua predicted the existence of the memristor, short for "memory resistor." This unique component, posited as the fourth passive electronic element alongside the resistor, capacitor, and inductor, regulates electrical current based on its history, retaining a…
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Amy Chua
2 years
We were looking at old family albums with my parents and came across this glamorous haircut, one of my mom's specials.
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Amy Chua
2 years
Lulu graduated from Harvard Law! Couldnt be more proud of her and so happy her sister Sophia flew in! @luluchuru
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Amy Chua
10 years
"Give your kids everything you didn’t have -- and you take away the hunger that enabled you to give your kids everything you didn’t have."
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Amy Chua
6 months
I'm so proud of my father, truly a singular point! At 87, he is in Turin, Italy being honored for discovering (almost 50 years ago) the memristor, in the news these days because of the key role it plays in semiconductors.
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Amy Chua
5 months
Another year causing a scene at the Chinese restaurant on Christmas!🎄
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Amy Chua
3 years
Thank you so much for seeing through all the smoke and mirrors. At the end of the day, as even the “worst” of the evidence shows, I had a handful of students over throughout the course of the semester, violating no agreement (with no others present)…
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Wesley Yang
3 years
Looks like they came after @amychua without having the goods. Malicious but also incompetent.
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Amy Chua
2 years
Had so much fun with my whole family in California this past week. Here are some pictures from our requisite massive dinner at a Chinese restaurant the day after Thanksgiving:
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Amy Chua
3 years
I feel so lucky to be in Berkeley celebrating my dad's 85th with my family! Through thick or thin, no one is more unconditionally supportive. This is the true meaning of tiger parenting!
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Amy Chua
3 years
"Conventional wisdom holds that tech companies are free to regulate content because they are private, and the First Amendment protects only against government censorship. That view is wrong: Google, Facebook and Twitter should be treated as state actors."
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Amy Chua
3 years
A new WSJ op-ed by Jed Rubenfeld & Vivek Ramaswamy on how Big Tech is threatening the Constitution @VivekGRamaswamy @WSJopinion
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Amy Chua
3 years
Passover 2021 in the books! So happy to not have to do another year of drinking Manischevitz alone on a family Zoom @luluchuru
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Amy Chua
11 months
Happy 87th birthday to my dad!
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Amy Chua
5 years
We just spent the best Christmas with my parents, my three sisters, and all of the cousins. We all took turns trying to wear out Mac and Frisky, now boisterous teenagers. Feeling very lucky to have such a wonderful family!
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Amy Chua
2 years
Congratulations, Clay! So proud and happy to support my friend in the launching of his campaign. Clay is one of the most open-minded and generous people I know, which in my book makes great leaders!
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Clay Aiken
2 years
Can you believe it's been almost 20 years since I first got to share my voice with you? That's a long time. A LOT has changed! We need powerful voices more than ever, so I'm running for Congress. And my voice is even stronger now! ;-) #JoinTheChorus
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Amy Chua
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…we have repeatedly ignored more primal group identities, which for billions are the most powerful and meaningful, and which drive political upheaval all over the world. This blindness has been the Achilles heel of foreign policy, from Vietnam to Afghanistan to Iraq. 3/
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Amy Chua
3 years
I can’t stop laughing @billscheft
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Amy Chua
3 years
Remember the whole dinner party hullabaloo? @ebruenig did a deep dive and uncovered the truth behind it: Students were not only harmed but used by the administration. And the administration still has not answered for it.
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Amy Chua
6 years
Incredibly moving and inspiring to talk with Parkland survivor David Hogg last night after @RealTimers . This guy is going places. Me with David & his proud mom. @davidhogg111
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Amy Chua
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the professor mentoring students and getting to know them on a personal level (and even comes with a special fund for social events). For me, one of the most important parts of being a professor is being there for my students, especially when they reach out in times of distress.
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Amy Chua
6 years
Thrilled to be one of "The 5 Books billionaire Mark Cuban is Reading This Summer" along w/Michael Lewis, @MaxTegmark & @joannelipman ! "Life-long learning is probably the greatest skill," says @mcuban . @Ali_Montag
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Amy Chua
3 years
We tend to view the world in terms of great ideological battles — Capitalism versus Communism, Democracy versus Authoritarianism, the “Free World” versus “The Axis of Evil.” Blinded by our own ideological prisms… 2/
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Amy Chua
3 years
Enough. These conspiracy theories are getting out of control. Here is a screenshot from the original email.
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Rando’s Frosted Mini-Tweets
3 years
@jedshug @amychua Hi Jed and Amy, any thoughts on why “Professor Chua” in letters above is in a different font from the rest of the text, almost as if these letters are fake?
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Amy Chua
3 years
It’s still hard to believe this happened at a LAW SCHOOL. “The students said the dean’s office had never asked them what actually happened at Ms. Chua’s.”
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Amy Chua
6 years
Super excited to come talk to your class, Asha! Can I go before Orwell?
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Amy Chua
3 years
@jedshug Hi Jed. These emails were sent to the administration, not to me. I later got permission (and some affirmative requests) from every single student to share, and they have all been anonymized.
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Amy Chua
3 years
More winter dog content feat. Coco, who fell asleep in the middle of a snowstorm (don’t worry, Samoyeds are born for the snow)
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Amy Chua
6 years
Again, try to ignore the horrible hand gesturing
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Real Time with Bill Maher
6 years
"I think that people in this country should be able to express their anxiety about immigration, and wonder about the rules, and talk about it without instantly being called a racist xenophobe." – @AmyChua #PoliticalTribes #RealTime
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1 year
Omg
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Amy Chua
11 months
I have been informed that Ed Sheeran makes pop music.
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Amy Chua
11 months
Last night I went to my first rock concert since I was seventeen!
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1 year
Sophia reading some crazy parenting memoir to Jake
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Amy Chua
5 years
Saturday with boys
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Amy Chua
3 years
More from Political Tribes (2018) specifically on the ethnic dynamics the U.S. failed to take into account: 1/
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Amy Chua
3 years
Here’s one thing the latest pieces got wrong (but the @chronicle got right): In 2019 I agreed not to socialize with students for a limited period of time only, which I assumed was over when (starting in Sept 2020) the Dean’s Office asked me repeatedly to teach a small group…
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Amy Chua
6 months
At 87, my dad gave the most amazing talk in Turin, Italy to a full house, completely packed! No idea what a single thing on that screen means!
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Amy Chua
3 years
These are all relevant quotes from the chapter on Afghanistan in my 2018 book Political Tribes:
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Amy Chua
7 years
Jeez, and I thought I was tough.
@JusticeWillett
Judge Don Willett
7 years
No pressure.
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Amy Chua
1 year
This is such an huge honor--thank you!
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Buckley Institute
1 year
We are excited to announce this year’s #LuxEtVeritas Faculty Prize is awarded to John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law @amychua . This $10,000 prize recognizes a Yale faculty member who actively fosters intellectual diversity for students in and out of the classroom.
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Amy Chua
3 years
The problem in Afghanistan is not just radical Islam. It's also an ethnic problem. And it's rooted in a cardinal rule of tribal politics: once in power, groups do not give up their dominance easily. 8/
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Amy Chua
2 years
Happy Lunar New Year! I'm so excited for the Year of the Tiger — Water Tiger to be precise — my Chinese zodiac sign! A lot of people don’t realize that’s where the title Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother comes from.
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Amy Chua
3 years
From the Cold War through the present day, our foreign policy in Afghanistan has been a colossal failure. In daunting part, this is because we either failed to understand or chose to ignore the country's complex tribal politics. 4/
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Amy Chua
8 months
I had the best NYC launch party yesterday! So much fun celebrating with wonderful friends, old and new!
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Amy Chua
2 years
My father received a big engineering award last night! I had the honor of introducing him and described him as “a force of nature, a creative tsunami, and an utterly unique person — in mathematical terms, a singular point.” (Not to mention, the original tiger father)
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Delip Rao e/σ
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Little known fact that celebrated author @amychua ’s dad is the famous Leon Chua, the father of non-linear circuit theory and the inventor of the Memristor. Such a treat hearing both of them speak today.
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Amy Chua
3 years
With our eyes set on Iraq, we failed to implement any measure ensuring security or basic services for the Afghan people. This was a grave error. After the US [temporarily] routed the Taliban, corruption and lawlessness surged anew. 7/
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Amy Chua
5 years
Heartbroken that Judge Patricia Wald, for whom I clerked in 1987-88, died this morning at age 90. She was my toughest mentor, biggest supporter, and a dear friend. Here's a photo of us from just a few years ago.
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Amy Chua
8 years
Me w/my tiger-mentor, the judicial giant, Judge Patricia Wald, who taught (+terrified) me so much & married Jed & me
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Amy Chua
6 years
I've done a lot of podcasts recently, but this one w/the provocative & brilliant @kmele is a little different. We have some interesting disagreements, and I explain why I'm not in the (trendy) camp calling for "post-identity liberalism."
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Amy Chua
6 years
"Race has split America's poor, and class has split America's white majority. Restoring upward mobility should be viewed as an emergency. [It's] what made America different from developing countries that have disintegrated."
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Amy Chua
3 years
Consequently, as with Vietnam, nearly every move we made in Afghanistan was practically designed to turn large segments of the population against us. 5/
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Amy Chua
3 years
Here are some of Sophia and Tim’s engagement photos — can't wait to welcome @MSUsparty68 into the family!
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Amy Chua
3 years
An end (I hope) to this saga. Long story short: There was nothing there.
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Amy Chua
3 years
My faith in objective journalism is restored! This reporter did a deep investigation, pursuing every “anonymous tip” against me and found NO “DINNER PARTIES” let alone any bacchanalia. @tebartl
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Amy Chua
3 years
It’s so sad that an article about Yale Law School has to end with these two lines: “What else could [the students] have done? It takes an admirable perceptiveness to know when the truth can’t save you anymore.”
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