She emphasized that the position she was defending "doesn't rely on race at all."- Yoram Hazony July 19, 2019 Wax advocated an immigration policy that favors immigrants with cultural affinities to the U.S. Zack misunderstood this passage from Wax's paper, and Wax did not say what he claims she said. Yoram Hazony, an Israeli conservative intellectual and one of the conference’s conveners, subsequently accused me of misrepresenting Wax’s position in a Friday Twitter thread (after sharing my piece two days earlier): By Friday afternoon, more than 1,000 people - many of whom were Penn students and alumni - had signed a petition for Wax to be removed from her teaching responsibilities. When I first reported these comments, it kicked off a controversy and landed Wax in trouble. University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, no stranger to culture-war controversies, used her talk to argue for an immigration policy that would favor immigrants from Western countries over non-Western ones - “in effect,” she said, “taking the position that our country will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites.” She believes this is not racist because her view is “grounded firmly in cultural concerns - doesn’t rely on race at all.” One panel on immigration - a major topic throughout the conference - stood out in particular. Last week, a group of conservative intellectuals and media figures met in a Ritz-Carlton in Washington, DC, to discuss “ national conservatism”: a new vision for the right that the conference organizers describe as “inextricably tied to the idea of the nation, to the principle of national independence, and to the revival of the unique national traditions that alone have the power to bind a people together.”
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