Squaring the Tikvah First Things Cancel Culture Circle: Joshua Katz's Super Catholic Week
David Shasha
Joshua Katz: Fired!
It was a big week for First Things Catholic radical Joshua Katz.
The New York Times published an article warning his impending dismissal:
https://groups.google.com/g/Davidshasha/c/R-5kPEUql-Q
And then it happened!
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/us/princeton-fires-joshua-katz.html
In case you missed it, here again is the special SHU newsletter that reviewed the case, featuring our dear friend Bari Weiss, who was joined by Christian Nationalist Fascist Rod Dreher in the amen chorus of the Right Wing echo-chamber:
https://groups.google.com/g/Davidshasha/c/HcYQqSZNe34
The MISHPOCHEH is united.
Joshua Katz: First Things Goes to Dallas
Then we had Katz’s own article in his homebase First Things:
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/finding-refuge-at-the-university-of-dallas
The White Snowflakes are looking for refuge!
But where do the rest of us find refuge from the White Snowflakes?
Certainly not in the Bari Weiss Tikvah echo-chamber!
Interlude: The Tikvah Trumpscum Leadership Conference
To be honest, I am not sure if I have already made note of the current crop of radical Seditionists who are participating in the upcoming Tikvah event:
It is a who’s who of Trumpscum Sedition:
POMPEO!
DEATH SENTENCE!
https://www.salon.com/2022/03/14/20-ron-desantis-is-the-future-of-the-party/
SOLOVEICHIK!
YORAM HAZONY!
https://www.vox.com/21355993/trump-israel-yoram-hazony-nationalism-tikvah
And, of course, BARI WEISS and LIEL LEIBOVITZ, the bastard children of Zalman Bernstein:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8UrV67wrZUghBRZimf_5PeQTkQbzXsufntJtD6Y1EM/edit
That is a lot of Right Wing WOKE Intersectionality with more than a soupcon of Cancel Culture, a la DISNEY:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/politics/ron-desantis-florida-disney-republicans/index.html
You will not find any actual diversity of thought in Tikvahworld.
Mrs. Joshua Katz has Common Sense!
And that leads us to Bari Weiss and Mrs. Katz:
Supporting Trumpworld Cancel Culture means attacking Princeton Cancel Culture:
We’ve run plenty of stories about people who have been the target of mobs—what's happened to them and their challenges and resilience in the aftermath.
What we’ve rarely heard—here or anywhere else—is what it’s like for the person who loves the mob’s target. What it’s like to watch someone you love being torn to pieces.
Solveig Gold is one of those people. She’s smart, funny, angry and brave. Mostly brave.
Below is Solveig’s story. It’s about bullies and Puritanism and the insane state of our universities, but really it’s a story about freedom and love and the things that endure, no matter what.
Bari Weiss talking about bullies.
That’s some real Projection!
Indeed, one of the accusations against Katz, in addition to inappropriate sexual conduct with a student, is that he created a culture of institutional intimidation with his students:
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2021/02/alumni-allegations-princeton-joshua-katz
Some bullies are less bully than others.
It is interesting that Weiss only chooses the targets of mobs who agree with her Neo-Con Straussian radicalism.
She could not really find the same enthusiasm for the 1/6 Trumpmob:
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1479131616219779073
Indeed, though she has written scores of articles on her White Snowflake pals, this is all I could find on her response to the Trump Sedition mob.
And she chose Liz Cheney!
I guess Shifty Schiff was not available.
Anyhow, Mrs. Katz is a University of Cambridge graduate, specializing in our dear friend Plato:
https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/solveig-gold
You know Plato, don’t you?
Indeed, the Katzes are a perfect Neo-Con match for Weiss as enemies of the Open Society:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Society_and_Its_Enemies#Summary
Mrs. Katz is now at Princeton:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/solveiggold/
She is a FOX News favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5jv4LOHsMY
Apparently, she is very Christian:
Of course, she is First Things:
https://www.firstthings.com/author/solveig-gold
Though she conveniently has a Jewish grandmother:
My Jewish grandmother always said that a true friend is one who would hide you under the floorboards when the Nazis come, and Joshua once told me that this friend was of that caliber.
Here is a review of who she is:
https://pimiso.com/who-is-solveig-gold-all-about-princeton-professor-joshua-katz-wife
In the end, her article for Weiss does not address her husband’s alleged malfeasance, or the ways in which the Reactionary Right has sought to destroy our country; primarily though the SCOTUS Catholic Radicals who are so much a part of the First Things world.
The Culture Wars will continue.
David Shasha