Solveig Gold
@solveiggold
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part-time Senior Fellow in Education and Society @goACTA / full-time Mommy
NYC → DC
Joined December 2011
Progressives read one essay by a conservative student and suddenly decide that intellectual standards aren't a heteropatriarchal settler-colonialist imposition
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I regret to inform those of you who aren't in the know that most college-level essays are nowhere near being college-level essays.
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Give a stupid assignment; receive a stupid paper. She was asked to talk about her “own experiences,” not to present empirical data.
For a psychology course at the University Oklahoma, Samantha Fulnecky was asked to write a 650-word essay reacting to an article about how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender. In her essay, Fulnecky argued that traditional gender roles should not be
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Philology – a love of words – is at the heart of the Antigone project. And today, we're delighted to announce a major annual prize for Classical Philology. The winner takes home the *full* Loeb library, and £5,000. Please share this news, and do go visit:
antigonejournal.com
A NEW PRIZE For new scholarship.
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Quite simply & without exaggeration, no living conservative has had more impact on academia in the US than @McCormickProf. Almost any conservative prof under 50 owes something to him. More importantly, I know him to be a man of deep integrity, generosity, virtue, & faith.
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The subtler reality is that attempts by (liberal?) conservatives to shape elite universities may be more successful under conditions created by (post-liberal?) external pressure, but only if such pressure is itself reformist not just Harvarda delenda est. https://t.co/k0hQ8b34kc
I was on a panel with @McCormickProf last fall at the Touchstone Conference, and a question came up about elite institutions. He talked about how we can infiltrate and capture elite institutions, citing as an example the James Madison Program at Princeton, where Robbie George
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He doesn’t need me to defend him, but at the very least I need to defend the correct spelling of his name. It’s ROBBY, not Robbie, y’all! PSA.
I have nothing but respect for Robbie George but he is simply wrong about institutional capture. The island he’s carved out for himself and his fellows in a leftist institution may be very pleasant but it has virtually no impact on the trajectory of the university, let alone the
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ACTA is strongly in favor of civics centers such as SCETL at ASU. But @solveiggold points out that while these centers may rejuvenate civic knowledge among students, they do little to restore other humanities disciplines that have also been hollowed out by campus ideologues.
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No one ever said killing can’t be convenient or advantageous. It’s just that it’s wrong.
This is a must watch! Stevie Nicks speaks openly about the abortion that allowed her to continue her career at the height of Fleetwood Mac’s rise. She makes it plain: access to abortion made her life, her art, and her voice possible.
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What does it say about young men that my prom date worked for Trump in 2016 and Mamdani in 2025? (What does it say about me?)
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“UATX will never charge tuition. And we will never take government money.” “Thanks to a $100 million gift from Jeff Yass…we're breaking the chains. His gift marks the launch of a $300 million campaign to build a university that sets students free.”
UATX will never charge tuition. And we will never take government money. Here's why. Graduates spend decades shouldering debt for hollow credentials. This debt influences every decision they make: What job to take. Where to live. When to marry. When to have children. Some will
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Finally, it was transplants, not native new Yorkers that overwhelmingly voted for Mamdani, of course because it is the young college graduates who moved there.
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Same thing happened to my phone two years ago (as I detailed in @TheSpectator). @united, I love you but you might wanna start filling those gaps! https://t.co/8B8cwiv18D
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The pilots came over and joked with us, assuring us that we’d get the phone back that night because the plane couldn’t resume flying
A United Airlines flight from Virginia to Rome turned around after a passenger dropped their laptop and could not retrieve it. The incident was the latest example of an airline working to preemptively address the threat of overheated lithium batteries.
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A few days ago, I posted a brief statement of what I, as a conservative, seek to conserve. The first item on the list was what I regard as the foundational principle of all sound morality: the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of each and every member of the human family.
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“Home of unvaccinated children.” The vile virtue-signaling in Georgetown continues. https://t.co/GRdYg0tt89
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