Amy Waxes Incoherent: It is the Poison in the Ivies
Ah, yes! These days we cannot have even a moment’s respite from the world as we are constantly bombarded with the blathering, bullshitting, bamboozling, or bloviating by someone about something of which and whom they know little about. If Munch lived now, his “Scream” would depict exploding heads, lips twisted in pretzel shapes, and mouths streaming zeros and ones….
And so it is that we must address the woeful, pitiful, aimless, and clueless remarks of 68-year-old Prof. Amy Wax — the one who has a BS in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale; an MA in philosophy, physiology, and psychology from Oxford; an MD from Harvard Medical School; and a JD from Columbia. We can now add a Ph.D. in piffle to the multiple suffixes on her calling card. Her official bio says she “is an American lawyer, neurologist, and academic,” and that she is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. For someone so academically qualified and more than three decades’ experience in Ivy League schools, we can expect that her salary is in the range of $400,000 to $500,000 a year. After all, another Amy at the school she teaches, Amy Gutmann, makes $3 million a year as president of the university, and lawyers, we know, get paid a lot, especially one that is a neurologist to boot, and someone who seems to claim to be able to read people’s…