A piece I wrote on the aftermath of the Tiger Mom Amy Chua controversy recently appeared in Contexts– a sociology magazine for the general public. Hope you enjoy it and would love to here what you think! On January 25, 2011, Stephen Colbert announced, “My guest tonight is a Yale professor who has written a [...]
This originally appeared on The Huffington Post on April 1, 2011. Note that the same day my piece was posted, news broke that Amy Chua’s eldest daughter, Sophia, was admitted to the Harvard class of ’15 (during the most competitive admissions cycle in Harvard’s history, with a 6.2% admit rate); Sophia will be matriculating in [...]
