“At dinner with the aspiring public intellectual and her ‘cabal’”: this fawning, gushing New York Times article about Solveig Gold, a Princeton alum, and Joshua Katz, her Princeton professor-now-husband, makes me come close to wanting to cancel my subscription.
An excerpt:
As her guests were about to arrive, Ms. Gold changed from a plain blue summer shift into a more glamorous cinched-waist yellow dress, drawing an approving smile from her husband, who was wearing a pink linen shirt.The background: Katz asserts that he was fired from Princeton for his political views, a victim of the culture wars. It’s a witch hunt, his lawyer says. An alternative explanation: he was fired for reasons made clear in these two articles (two of many) from The Daily Princetonian : 1, 2.
She set the long rectangular table in the grass precisely, with a Wedgewood-blue and white tablecloth, cloth napkins tied up in yellow ribbons, place cards inked in a neat cursive hand and melamine dishes in a Provençal design.
My take: if you sleep with your students, if you discourage one of them from seeking mental health treatment, and if you pressure her not to cooperate with an investigation into your actions, you should not expect to hold onto your job. You can have nice dinner parties instead and have the Times send someone down to cover them and write about your wife, who was another one of your students. Barf.
[I must point out: the place cards are for a table seating just six people.]
comments: 6
Barf indeed!
Is the NYT resorting to writing like it was the 1950s? This article seems to be aimed strictly to a female/female-oriented audience of the conservative S. Ct. Even Ladies Home Journal and McCall's magazines didn't publish this drivel during the 1960s. And they had Gloria Steinem and others writing for them.
Trite, trite, trite!
kirsten
That was fast! Let me go get another air-sickness bag. : )
I’ve seen tweets suggesting that this article is a bit of sabotage, but I don’t think so. Drivel it is.
My Subscription renewal has been on hold for a few weeks. This article is telling me , " do not renew, do not pass go." Nauseating, every sentence of it! Lord, who gives a crap about these folks? Disgust is strong with this one! Thanks for the heads up. You just saved me some dollars and reading material that is BARF inducing. No thank you NYT.
Watch out, Times!
Leaving context out of it, this makes mundane details dull.
I cancelled 2 years ago when the editorials became unbearable.
Cancel NYT. Get the Brave browser, turn on Shields and Block Scripts. This will get you past the 80% of sites that haven't implemented the kill for this including Times, WaPo and New Yorker, thou you won't get to see pictures or Java pages.
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