Solveig Gold

part-time Senior Fellow in Education and Society @goACTA / full-time Mommy

[Solveig Gold @solveiggold]

“There is no match for the lawlessness of e-bike and e-scooter users, who enjoy the privileges of both pedestrians and drivers without any of the consequences.”
https://t.co/L4o0Jj56Os

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Why are so many rich kids commies? Because communist societies protect the elite from the creative destruction of the free market. So a rich kid raised in the elite who knows he couldn’t get their on his own merit supports a system designed to protect the elite from those with greater skill.

[Solveig Gold @solveiggold]

shot : cocktail ::
espresso : coffee ::
chocolate truffle : dessert

discuss

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

Excellent to see the Antigone Philology Prize mentioned as a best-in-show contest in this sparky @newcriterion article: https://t.co/EjhabYs7v0

[Reihan Salam @reihan]

It’s the year 2047. There are only 17 toddlers left in NYC, each of whom is lovingly cared for by 100,000 unionized caregivers.

[Solveig Gold @solveiggold]

@AdeleScalia Okay these results are crazy. NO way are y’all being objective here!!!!

[Solveig Gold @solveiggold]

@AdeleScalia Looking for the OBJECTIVE answer, based ONLY on looks. No other considerations allowed!!!

[Solveig Gold @solveiggold]

No wonder these students think Israel is a modern construct.

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

How do you get into Princeton and not know what the 10 Commandments are?!

[Phillip Muñoz @VPhillipMunoz]

Harvard, apparently, is about to adopt a new policy to combat grade inflation. I devised my own anti–grade inflation policy 25 years ago. I’ve shared it with provosts and deans, to no avail. Here it is:
The Muñoz Plan Against Grade Inflation
The plan has three key components:

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

From @WSJFreeEx: A growing number of children raised by professors are emerging confident, articulate, ideologically coherent and almost entirely insulated from the consequences of being wrong, writes @SamuelAbramsAEI
https://t.co/doxXcVOBYj

[The New Criterion @newcriterion]

“What Yale and its peer institutions should do first is institute proper departmental curricula for majors, something egregiously missing from the humanities and softer social-science departments.”

Read “Brain trust?,” by Joshua T. Katz.

https://t.co/rAMZbhUl87

[John David Soriano @sorianojohnd]

“A whole civilization,” by Joshua T. Katz. Great little piece about a civilization worth preserving. I impose on the author’s better half ⁦@solveiggold⁩ to convey appropriate kudos. https://t.co/uquoCIysy9

[John Moscatiello @HookedonJohnics]

College Board: “AP Exam questions are not easier than in the past, nor are they harder. The exams themselves have not changed.”

AP English Language and Composition:

[Solveig Gold @solveiggold]

“But there are also many mothers who do have a choice, who can afford to stay home, who want to stay home, but who have bought the lie that they will forever lose themselves and their careers if they take too much time away from the workforce. This lie has driven far too many mothers to leave their babies with strangers before they feel ready to part, and it has persuaded far too many women to delay having children in the first place, until they realize, too late, that their best childbearing years are behind them.
To these women I say: Take a page from The Country Bunny.”
https://t.co/cSLw3DsGBU

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

The Atlantic’s newest cover story, by the peerless @caityweaver, is unlike anything else.

Just read it:

https://t.co/xEyuBEvAZp

[Solveig Gold @solveiggold]

“But there are also many mothers who do have a choice, who can afford to stay home, who want to stay home, but who have bought the lie that they will forever lose themselves and their careers if they take too much time away from the workforce. This lie has driven far too many mothers to leave their babies with strangers before they feel ready to part, and it has persuaded far too many women to delay having children in the first place, until they realize, too late, that their best childbearing years are behind them.
To these women I say: Take a page from The Country Bunny.”
https://t.co/cSLw3DsGBU

[The Free Press @TheFP]

Every day, I kiss my daughter’s curls and thank my lucky stars that I had the privilege to take an early detour, writes Solveig Lucia Gold. https://t.co/Zmv3X6SUBG

[Peter Savodnik @petersavodnik]

Also: less antisemitism, more free speech

[Logan Dobson @LoganDobson]

only difference is I support moon statehood

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

What advice can help Classicists thrive in the 21st century? In our latest piece, which was received with rapturous applause at our Antigone celebration this month in Oxford, Solveig Gold sets out the simple rules that will help young scholars stay sane. https://t.co/1HTmQDppjy