Solveig Gold is proud to be the wife of a ‘cancelled’ Princeton professor


And when Dr. Katz lost his job, Ms. Gold quickly published an essay about their relationship in Common Sense, the newsletter run by Bari Weiss, a former New York Times Opinion Service writer and editor. . (“My alma mater is not the school I once loved,” was part of the title. “But Joshua Katz is exactly the man I knew I married.”)

“He’s young at heart, and I’m an old soul, and it works,” Ms. Gold later said.

Although she is not yet a national player, she has long imagined the possibility. When Ms. Gold was named the winner of the Pyne Award, one of Princeton’s highest undergraduate honors for which Dr. Katz (they weren’t a couple at the time) was one of her nominators, the ‘official announcement said she aspired to become a public intellectual. (She had a head start. Ms. Gold and her grandfather Robert W. Jenson, a Lutheran theologian, wrote a book, “Conversations With Poppi About God,” when she was just 8 years old.)

As her guests were about to arrive, Mrs Gold changed from a plain blue summer swimsuit to a more glamorous yellow dress with a cinched waist, drawing an approving smile from her husband, who was wearing a pink linen shirt .

She set the long rectangular table in the grass with precision, with a blue Wedgewood and white tablecloth, cloth napkins tied with yellow ribbons, place cards inked with neat cursive script and designer melamine tableware. Provencal. She was schooled in formal ways from an early age, she said, as the only child of an actress and soap opera writer. “My mum hosted a lot of dinner parties and I ended up talking to adults,” Ms Gold said.

Dr. Katz was her teacher in two classes, Egyptology and Hesiod, and her freshman advisor, but there was no romance in sight, she said, until the summer of 2017, her year graduation, and then it was a slow burn. Moreover, as a comfortably paunchy Democratic middle-aged man, he was not her type.