# Professor Jonathan Haidt's blog post on the reactions to University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Amy Wax's column is highlighted

1 Faculty News September 9, 2017 ![New York Magazine logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_035440.gif?itok=tfYuio90)>

Excerpt from [New York Magazine](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/09/can-an-embrace-of-bourgeois-values-revive-america.html) -- "All this local controversy, in turn, became a temporary focus of the roiling national debate over campus activism, free speech, and so on. NYU professor [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), a leading figure in that conversation, wrote a statement defending some of Wax’s claims and arguing that 'collective actions' like the letters published denouncing Wax 'are only appropriate when colleagues have clearly and flagrantly violated their professional duties.'"

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