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Cambridge PhD in Classics / “Princeton’s resident blonde Christofascist tradwife” 💁🏼‍♀️

New York, NY → Princeton, NJ → Cambridge, UK
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@solveiggold
Solveig Gold
8 months
Claudine Gay should be remembered alongside Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey as one of the great fraudsters of our time.
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Solveig Gold
4 months
One of Princeton’s eating clubs (co-ed frats) has instituted a new visitors policy after a student brought @McCormickProf to lunch—because his very presence at the club made members feel unsafe!
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@solveiggold
Solveig Gold
4 months
Wondering how these pro-Hamas protests get started? Here’s the playbook at Princeton for recruiting protesters.
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Solveig Gold
8 months
Let’s not forget that Claudine Gay protected this professor, Ryan Enos, from being investigated for fabricating data. And of course she did, since she herself appears to be a plagiarist!
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Wesley Yang
8 months
Harvard professors are concerned that free inquiry, "the bedrock of how universities are run in a free country" is under threat
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Solveig Gold
3 months
Why are the elite college protestors so unattractive? No really, why? Some musings.🧵
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Solveig Gold
7 months
Looking forward to @realchrisrufo as Secretary of Education 👨‍🏫
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Solveig Gold
4 months
Not that long ago, eating clubs proudly encouraged members to bring professors to meals. This was considered a Good Thing. The new policy is bad enough for targeting @McCormickProf , but it’s also going to make it harder for all students to dine with their professors.
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Solveig Gold
4 months
Princeton’s Vice President for Campus Life Rochelle Calhoun has now written to the community, explicitly threatening expulsion. Excerpt below.
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Matthew Schmitz
4 months
Expulsion, not arrest, is the effective way to discourage campus protest encampments. An arrest can burnish an activist resume; loss of a prestigious degree is a more serious penalty.
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@solveiggold
Solveig Gold
4 years
St Bart’s, NYC. The church is closed. The cafe is open.
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@solveiggold
Solveig Gold
8 months
…what kind of academic has that much unused bookshelf space?
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8 months
A Video Message from President Liz Magill
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Solveig Gold
4 months
@McCormickProf Yes, this is an exciting development in the story. Turns out @McCormickProf is actually a longtime honorary member of the eating club in question! (Invitation accepted, of course.)
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@solveiggold
Solveig Gold
3 months
A good friend of mine has for a while been concerned that young men would, amidst the ongoing crisis of masculinity, be drawn to the strict patriarchal code of Islam and Sharia Law. A bizarre twist that it’s the young women, instead!
@RichardHanania
Richard Hanania
3 months
It’s like Where’s Waldo trying to find a male among the Columbia occupiers. Masked college girls are just really into Hamas.
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Solveig Gold
3 months
All young people crave purpose, sure, but none so much as the irreligious and unattractive B+ Ivy Leaguers who were once high-school valedictorians.
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@solveiggold
Solveig Gold
4 months
And here’s their media training…
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@solveiggold
Solveig Gold
10 months
At @Princeton , students are required to wear face masks as they cheer on the beheading of babies. Make it make sense!
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Solveig Gold
3 months
“As the protests continue and university presidents cling to their jobs, they keep trying to appeal to common values and community… But after decades of deliberate balkanization, the rhetoric rings hollow.” My latest for @firstthingsmag
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Solveig Gold
3 months
Then, they showed up at, say, Columbia and were no longer the smartest person in the room. Their self-worth crumbled. So they looked for new ways to be praised and accepted and found it in the encampments.
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Solveig Gold
4 months
I really appreciate all the Columbia alumni weighing in, but if I see one more person comment “as an alumni” …!!! You are an alumnus or an alumna. Even an alum. But you are not an alumni any more than you are a they/them. 🙃
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Solveig Gold
3 months
That said, the ugliness is also, to a certain extent, a choice. They could choose to dress well, brush their hair, smile with confidence. As @karijensongold likes to say, you can will yourself to be pretty! Yet they continue to choose ugliness because they hate Beauty.
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Solveig Gold
4 months
Princeton professors “vow to withhold [their] academic labor from Columbia and Barnard” until Columbia’s administration meets their demands. Poor Columbia! How will it survive without the academic labor of these intellectual giants?!
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Solveig Gold
3 months
Mr. President, did you really think the faculty radicals you nurtured wouldn’t eventually turn on you, too?
@abigailandwords
Abigail Anthony
3 months
PRINCETON: Eisgruber to hold special faculty meeting in response to request from pro-Palestine faculty.
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Solveig Gold
3 months
And yet students were disciplined for having more than three people in a room during Covid.
@sfmcguire79
Steve McGuire
3 months
NEW: Princeton announced that student protestors are unlikely to get more than probation after faculty voted 154-136 to recommend amnesty in a special meeting yesterday.
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Solveig Gold
3 months
Princeton protestors complain that Eisgruber’s offer of restorative justice is “misappropriating”: “Restorative Justice is a sacred tradition which has roots in Indigenous practices of offering healing, restitution, and understanding between parties which have harmed each other.”
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@PtonDivestNow
Princeton Israeli Apartheid Divest
3 months
Eisgruber Lies, Palestinians Die. Read our full response to the latest campus wide email meant to stoke fear, mislead on commitments, and shrug off all responsibility—
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Solveig Gold
3 months
When they were in high school, these students weren’t pretty or athletic, but they did have one thing going for them: they were smart. So they built their identity and self-worth around their intelligence and good grades.
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Solveig Gold
2 years
Still waiting for @Princeton to publicize this remarkable mathematical achievement. But they won’t because Klainerman is a vocal critic of the Eisgruber regime
@MadisonProgram
James Madison Program
2 years
Sergiu Klainerman, Professor of Mathematics @Princeton and a faculty associate of the James Madison Program, has helped prove that black holes are stable. His co-authored proof is critical to Einstein's theory of gravitation.
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Solveig Gold
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Last year Joshua suggested colleges implement this essay prompt. I’m thrilled Harvard has started plagiarizing the right people!
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Nico Perrino
10 days
Harvard added a new essay question to its admissions application. It's one of five required writing samples:
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Solveig Gold
10 months
So what, exactly, would be a “proportionate” response to the beheading of innocent children? Someone enlighten me.
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Solveig Gold
1 month
Love how insurance companies will happily pay for gender-reassignment surgeries, but fourteen months after giving birth, I’m still trying to get my insurance to cover any of my baby’s hospital stay 🙃 It’s almost as if our culture doesn’t value babies 🤔
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Solveig Gold
3 years
The @nytimes abolishing the term “op-ed”? Fair enough—the whole paper is opinion. Hard to distinguish these days!
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Solveig Gold
6 years
11 extant silver Caesars; 11 Cantabrigians on a field trip to @WaddesdonManor . Coincidence? I think not! @wmarybeard
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Solveig Gold
1 month
How embarrassing if it’s George Clooney, and not the Lord Almighty, who gets Biden to quit the race.
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Solveig Gold
3 months
I’m shocked, shocked…
@OrbuchA
Alexandra Orbuch
3 months
President Eisgruber announces that students arrested for participating in the Princeton encampment will be offered a “restorative justice” process to “rapidly conclude the University disciplinary process, making it possible for the students to join Commencement.”
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Solveig Gold
3 months
Never negotiate with…small local terrorist organizations 😘
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Abigail Anthony
3 months
Princeton pro-Palestine activists, who occupied Clio Hall yesterday, cite the Black Justice League’s sit-in demonstration at Pres. Eisgruber’s office as a precedent on campus.
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Solveig Gold
2 years
Can’t wait for the next Princeton student punished for plagiarism to sue the University
@KevinMKruse
Kevin M. Kruse
2 years
Meanwhile, the Dean of the Faculty at Princeton followed our procedures, convening an ad hoc committee to investigate allegations about my books. Thankfully, that process has concluded too. The report will stay confidential, but I've been allowed to share the following text:
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Solveig Gold
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Peter Boghossian
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Solveig Gold
2 years
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Jack
2 years
The NYU student who took over my lease has owed me $100 for weeks, and when I asked him to pay me, he said he felt bullied and then sent me a Psychology Today article about gaslighting.
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6 months
“Imagine if American colleges and universities were to prioritize freshman advising rather than hiring ever more DEI flunkies who should not be anywhere near impressionable young people.” Joshua’s latest, for @NASorg
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Solveig Gold
3 months
@karijensongold Wait wait I’m hopelessly superficial AND my husband is ugly?! Whew!
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Solveig Gold
5 months
One wonders how different the college protesting scene might have been if Eisgruber had suspended the @Princeton Black Justice League students when they occupied his office in 2015
@sfmcguire79
Steve McGuire
5 months
UPDATE: Vanderbilt has removed the students who were occupying the building. 16 of them have been suspended. Three were arrested. Details about the sit-in in the 🧵 below.
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Solveig Gold
2 years
Happy 4th from me and my infamous melamine dinnerware! @karijensongold
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Solveig Gold
2 years
I am many things, but a victim is not one of them!
@soledadobrien
Soledad O'Brien
2 years
The @nytimes loves a cancel culture story. And—let’s talk about framing: whose story is centered? What does that person gain from claiming (but not actually) being a victim? Why would the @nytimes frame this story this way? What did the investigation below tell you.
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Solveig Gold
2 years
If you’re blissfully unaware of the staggering stupidity on #ClassicsTwitter , allow me to fill you in on the happenings of the last 24 hours. 🧵
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Solveig Gold
2 years
If anything, I’d like to show how good life can still be when canceled. Encourage more people to speak their mind!
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Solveig Gold
3 years
Outside the self-loathing confines of the discipline, it is perfectly obvious that expertise in Classics requires knowledge of classical languages.
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Solveig Gold
2 years
The audible gasp of delight when the lights came up on Zeffirelli’s opulent production of Turandot tonight! We are so starved for beauty. Thank God this packed audience can still appreciate it—even when it’s, to quote the Met’s program note, “problematic”….
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Solveig Gold
8 months
Even if Claudine Gay was just being “sloppy” in her scholarship, that level of sloppiness should be disqualifying for leadership in any organization, let alone Harvard.
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Solveig Gold
2 years
I am proud to be one of the editors of @AntigoneJournal , an online journal run by volunteers publishing articles on the Classics for amateurs and experts alike. (Give it a follow if you don’t already!)
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Solveig Gold
16 days
Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants strolling across the border, and yet it takes two different machines and two different border patrol officers to let my 14-month-old, who has Global Entry, back into the country. Priorities!
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Solveig Gold
2 years
How delicious to hear the Beatitudes in church today: Blessed are THE poor…THE meek…THE merciful…THE pure in heart. Take that, @APStylebook !
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Solveig Gold
4 months
“In addition, members of our community would face a disciplinary process (for students this could lead to suspension, delay of a diploma, or expulsion).” Great! Now let’s see some follow-through.
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Solveig Gold
4 years
Happened upon this photo with my Godfather Richard today. Thinking about his law: “Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.” @firstthingsmag
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Solveig Gold
1 year
Today, @Princeton ’s President Eisgruber decided that his Commencement address would be an appropriate time to attack @RonDeSantis !
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Solveig Gold
2 months
As I wrote in @firstthingsmag this sort of behavior is a feature, not a bug, of the DEI regime.
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Theo Baker
2 months
Protesters @Stanford spray painted a memorial to American veterans killed in the line of duty with “Fuck America.” They took over the president’s office briefly this morning; though the 13 inside were quickly arrested, others rallied in their support.
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Solveig Gold
2 years
Thomas, concurring: “That 50 years have passed since Roe and abortion advocates still cannot coherently articulate the right (or rights) at stake proves the obvious: The right to abortion is ultimately a policy goal in desperate search of a constitutional justification.” 🔥
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Solveig Gold
4 months
“Any individual involved in an encampment, occupation, or other unlawful disruptive conduct who refuses to stop after a warning will be arrested and immediately barred from campus. For students, such exclusion from campus would jeopardize their ability to complete the semester.
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Solveig Gold
2 years
This story makes my blood boil: @Princeton allows students to use “no-communication orders” (traditionally reserved for sexual harassment cases) as weapons against free speech.
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Solveig Gold
3 months
There’s a funny ambivalence about being conservative: I cheer the downfall of these woke strongholds, even as it pains me to watch the ugliness of the destruction. These were once beautiful, important institutions—or at least they held that promise.
@TheBabylonBee
The Babylon Bee
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Oh No! Indoctrinated Woke Extremists Destroy Woke Extremist Indoctrination Center
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Maybe it’s the disingenuous appeal to free speech, coming from those who have most vocally opposed it!
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Solveig Gold
2 years
We’ve replaced our @Princeton hats with these ones.
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Solveig Gold
2 years
If these “academics” are so concerned with manuscripts, they should get off Twitter and get to work. Fin.
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Solveig Gold
3 months
These kids really are in solidarity with Hamas: attacking first and then demanding “humanitarian aid.”
@CollinRugg
Collin Rugg
3 months
JUST IN: Columbia student short-circuits when reporter corners her after she demanded that the university feed protesters who seized Hamilton Hall. Student: The school is obligated to bring us food. Reporter: But you guys put yourself in that position? Student: Nobody is
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Solveig Gold
4 months
Among other sins, the student encampments are just so…ugly.
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Solveig Gold
1 year
Today I learned that the new way to compliment a woman’s postpartum physique is to ask whether she used a surrogate! Should I be flattered or horrified?!
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Solveig Gold
10 months
What’s the worst part? The bothsidesing? The repetition of misinformation (and blood libel) about the Gaza hospital?
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Solveig Gold
4 months
So maybe it’s fair to call certain Ivy Leaguers terrorists, after all?
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Solveig Gold
4 months
“When did college students’ notion of themselves as adults shift? When did they stop being capable of extending grace to someone who had fallen, and instead become children in need of protection from the fallen—and thirsty for their punishment?”
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Solveig Gold
8 months
I don’t want to turn the Woke’s tools against them. But I do want them to feel an ounce of the fear—nay, terror—that they have inflicted on everyone else these last few years.
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Robert P. George
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Suddenly we're at a moment when tools fashioned by the Woke to destroy their enemies can be turned on them--identitarianism, safetyism, speech codes and language policing, DEI and its enforcement mechanisms. But embracing these things would be catastrophic. Resist the temptation.
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I say I like the (multiethnic) NYPD’s khaki pants; (white) Princeton professor responds suggesting that khaki pants are a symbol of white supremacy. You really can’t make this up!
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Solveig Gold
2 years
I stick with the Episcopal Church for the music, but they make it so damn hard…
@PastorAndyWebb
Andy Webb
2 years
The Episcopal Church (TEC) condemns Crisis Pregnancy Centers "Resolved, That the 80th General Convention denounces the work of Crisis Pregnancy Centers... and... apologizes for the Church’s previous support of Crisis Pregnancy Centers"
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Solveig Gold
3 months
Student protestors at Princeton “have been forced to brave heavy rain and cold temperatures”…FORCED!
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Solveig Gold
10 months
The people who tell us that you can be anti-Zionist without being anti-Semitic are the same people who tell us that only racists oppose Black Lives Matter.
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Solveig Gold
2 years
According to the “Feminine Power” exhibit @britishmuseum , jealousy has been “a specifically female emotion” in “male dominated cultures”. I think that would surprise the Greeks and Trojans, who fought a rather famous war because of one man’s jealousy over a woman…
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Solveig Gold
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Watching season 6 of The West Wing right now, and President Bartlet’s declining health is…disconcerting.
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Solveig Gold
3 months
Among other unfortunate consequences, January 6th allowed everyone conveniently to forget that our cities were boarded up on Election Night 2020 because we feared riots from the Left, not the Right.
@stillgray
Ian Miles Cheong
3 months
Columbia protesters have completely crossed the line. They’re smashing into Hamilton Hall.
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10 months
Forgot your mask? You’re a grandma killer! ACTUAL grandma killer? You’re a hero!
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Solveig Gold
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Mostly peaceful! @nytimes
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Solveig Gold
4 years
My two cents in @SpectatorUSA this morning:
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Solveig Gold
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Princeton students block a bus carrying their arrested comrades…
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Solveig Gold
2 years
“Will Cambridge, in its ongoing quest to decolonize, be the next victim of American cultural imperialism?” My latest for @TheSpectator
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Solveig Gold
2 years
my version of broken windows policing would be jailing every single person who bikes the wrong way down a New York street
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Solveig Gold
1 month
Are we living through unprecedented times again?
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Solveig Gold
2 years
The president of @Princeton is “in danger of becoming a comic opera character in the middle of an unfolding tragedy that threatens the foundations of higher education in the United States.”
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Solveig Gold
8 months
I am shocked, shocked to find that the people who parrot the same formulaic DEI jargon over and over again are also plagiarists!
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Solveig Gold
2 years
This interview with @DrPhil was a real treat. Such a kind man. Give it a listen!
@DrPhilPodcast
Dr. Phil Podcast
2 years
"Most people have a skeleton in their closet, which is probably why most people aren't willing to speak up.” @solveiggold @DrPhil @DrPhilPodcast #Joshuakatz #princetonuniversity Click on the link to hear the podcast in full:
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Solveig Gold
4 months
Apparently arrests are already underway.
@PtonDivestNow
Princeton Israeli Apartheid Divest
4 months
We raised our encampment in solidarity with Gaza to protest Princeton's role in funding the ongoing genocide! We join a national movement of students speaking out against the occupation, fighting for Palestinian liberation. JOIN US at McCosh Plaza to support us and get involved!
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Solveig Gold
3 years
So looking forward to this!
@MadisonProgram
James Madison Program
3 years
Tomorrow, October 6th: We'll host @AnikaFreeindeed and @solveiggold '17 live on Zoom to answer the question "Why Study Classics?" 7:00 PM ET! Registration is free, required, and available here:
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Solveig Gold
9 months
As a reminder: these people assume everyone is racist because they themselves harbor so much hatred and bigotry.
@RachelJessWolff
Rachel Jessica Wolff
9 months
Not to be outdone by Harvard, Georgetown @georgetownsfs just hired this antisemite to be the “primary point of contact for all MSFS Students on everything academic.” As an SFS student, I’d rather fail my master’s program than speak to someone who says this about my people.
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Solveig Gold
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Did these professors express any concern for Jewish students’ free speech on issues pertaining to the Middle East then? Of course not.
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