Prof Amy Chua: Political Tribalism in America: Why We Hate Each Other

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T﻿opic Focus: Political Tribalism in America: Why We Hate Each Other — and What We Can Do About ItIn the United States today, identity politics have seized both the left and right in a disturbing way. Every group feels threatened: whites and blacks, Latinos and Asians, men and women, liberals and conservatives, and so on. Many people feel a pervasive sense of collective persecution and discrimination, withdrawing into their own self-identified "tribes" for support and affirmation. Can American ever come together again? The Yale Club of Dallas is pleased to present a special talk by Amy Chua, the John M. Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law School, in which she’ll explore the root causes underlying this toxic political tribalism, explain how it impacts both domestic politics and American foreign policy, and suggest some possible ways forward. After her talk she will be delighted to take questions from the audience.Amy Chua is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Chua received both her A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University. While at Harvard Law School, Professor Chua was Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She then clerked for Chief Judge Patricia M. Wald on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and, prior to entering academics in 1994, practiced with the Wall Street firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen &amp; Hamilton. Professor Chua joined the Yale Law School faculty in 2001. Her expertise is in international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law. Her first book, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability was a New York Times bestseller and selected by both The Economist and the U.K.’s Guardian as a Best Book of 2003. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance — and Why They Fall, the 2011 memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and the New York Times bestseller, The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups, coauthored with Jed Rubenfeld. Her latest book is Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations (Penguin, 2018) Professor Chua has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Colbert Report, Charlie Rose, and Real Time with Bill Maher. She has addressed numerous government and policymaking institutions, including the Brookings Institution, the CIA, the World Economic Forum in Davos, and the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul. In 2011, Professor Chua was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people, one of the Atlantic Monthly's Brave Thinkers, and one of Foreign Policy's Global Thinkers. She also received the Yale Law School's "Best Teaching" award.

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