President of Wesleyan University. (grand)father, husband, author, professor. Defender of academic freedom, liberal education and democracy.
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In Vichy France, university leaders pointed our that the Nazi defeat of their country should be an opportunity to restore faith in education after a period of decadence. @lioneltrolling.bsky.social @aacu.org @aaup.org @aceducation.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
The assault on civil society: “Trump did not invent this playbook,” said Thomas M. Countryman…”It depends on the squelching of all independent centers of thought, and that includes universities, law firms and scientists.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
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“I wonder if the general misery & disconnection all around is partly..When the culture encourages people to idolize the needs of the self —to focus on self-actualization, self-esteem, self-display —that doesn’t produce strong people but needy, touchy & insecure ones” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
.@annelamott.bsky.social “With so little to offer, I told them once again what Mr. Rogers’s mother told him: In the face of tragedy, look toward the helpers. That’s where we see goodness & sacrifice, and these give us hope. Let there be light, &let it begin with me.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“Based on what we earn, we see different ads, stand in different lines, eat different food, stay in different hotels, watch the parade from different sections, and on and on. What’s profitable today is not unification. It’s segmentation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Enjoyed talking with Sam Harris about #highered & #freespeech but still surprised by how panic about wokeness remains so potent even when confronted with an authoritarian White House. samharris.substack.com/p/making-sen...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read @danagoldstein.bsky.social “The administration is using the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, which was established to protect racial and ethnic minority groups, to try to end programs meant to help some of those same students.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“Nor should we accept arguments that because Hamas is the primary reason many Gazans are either starving or on the verge of starving, that the Jewish State is not also culpable in this human disaster.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read @alanfeuer.bsky.social & ask when does governmental vindictiveness become authoritarianism…fascism?When is there still time to stop this process? @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @aaup.org @thefireorg.bsky.social @aacu.org @aceducation.bsky.social nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n... via @nytimes.com
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Anthony Appiah relevant to so much: "This isn’t a matter of shirking your duties; it’s a matter of stewarding your capacity to assist." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/m...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
The new fascist govt officials want George Mason’s president to say 2 + 2 = 5. #Orwell www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Beverly Gage quotes Hofstadter “It is rare for an American intellectual to confront candidly the unresolvable conflict between the elite character of his own class and his democratic aspirations,” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Leadership powerfully expressed Mayor David Holt “Sometimes this language is cloaked in patriotism, but it is really just repackaged bigotry, misogyny and racism. To cast equal opportunity as a threat rather than a goal is to move backward.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o... @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read @epress.bsky.social "all of this is being done under the pretext of protecting Jews, who alone are entitled to protections that other groups apparently don’t merit. It is hard to imagine a more effective way to breed anti-Jewish animus." @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
"I would say the fact there is a public debate about the future of American higher education has no relationship whatsoever to what actions that the administration is taking." lol @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“while Ms. Halligan does not have experience in the museum sector…[she]has competed in the Miss Colorado USA pageant…[and]her confidence and discipline came from a background participating in pageants and sports like basketball.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/a... via @nytimes.com
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Adam Sitze: “We’re also called upon to say why the university deserves its immunity from state power, and what kind of body the university is such that those freedoms are essential to it.” www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
All about the GLEICHSCHALTUNG “the review “aims to ensure alignment with the president’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/a...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Authoritarians need ‘neutral’ leaders “The “review “aims to ensure alignment with the president’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives &restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a... via @NYTimes
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Authoritarianism is not about academic personality conflicts. We can’t claim to value neutrality, freedom of inquiry & speech if we only pursue truths that don’t annoy the administration. Education should encourage practices of freedom—not tyranny. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Like #highered, it’s not about being “too woke” it’s about authoritarianism: “Industry leaders have been left with little choice but to grovel for a presidential reprieve with financial promises and gifts” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/t...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
The “neutrality” leaders want for us nothing less than what Heidegger wanted for Germany in 1933: the self-assertion of the American University! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“the federal government is willing to not obey the laws& a lawless federal government is very frightening..If someone pays a ransom to get their kid back from a kidnapper, I don’t criticize the parents for making a deal…It’s the kidnappers that deserve our criticism.” www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/u...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“Trump has often taken a paradoxical approach to education, pushing to diminish the federal government’s role, even as he tries to wield its power….he has often used federal funding as a..tool to get schools &universities on board with his agenda” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read Prof Igor Mazin www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social “We’re creating a generation of public servants who can’t feel completely secure when they’re out in public, who wonder if they’re safe in their own homes and who fret constantly about their siblings, spouses and children.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
My thoughts on Gaza and Jewish traditions in TIME magazine this morning. time.com/7307712/jewi...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Emily Bazelon: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read Be Austen on community colleges “As Gavin put it, “We are situated more than any other institution in America to deliver on the promises in our original founding documents that everybody deserves a good life.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m... via @NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...
“If the government is going to lay a heavy hand on us, that's not a practice of freedom at all. It becomes a practice of obedience, and that would be a very sad day for the United States.” —Wesleyan University’s President @msroth.bsky.social on @knightcolumbia.org’s podcast #HigherEd #Trump
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social “Professors in the Big Ten have powerful networks, resources, protections, and colleagues. They are teaching all of us that, under the current siege, we must galvanize those networks.” newrepublic.com/article/1983... via @newrepublic.com
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Reading Lamentations this year with greater horror Even jackals offer the breast And suckle their young; But my poor people has turned cruel, Like ostriches of the desert. The tongue of the suckling cleaves To its palate for thirst. Little children beg for bread; None gives them a morsel
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Hear, Oh Israel: "My being melts away Over the ruin of my poor people, As babes and sucklings languish In the squares of the city, “Where is bread &wine?” As they languish like battle-wounded In the squares of the town, As their life runs out In their mothers’ bosoms" www.sefaria.org/Lamentations...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
This week we read the Book of Lamentations See, O LORD, and behold, How abject I have become!
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
"If you’re a teacher, you shouldn’t complain about your students—you should figure out how to teach them. And if you can’t..you actually should just stop teaching. Let somebody else try..because the job..is to create an environment in which they can learn." open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
"we can’t have honest conversations amid Trump’s thuggish, immoral tactics. People across the political spectrum have an obligation to call him out..Trump is making a mockery of..conservative principles..Yet, most conservatives remain silent" @arneduncan.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/an-o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Commish @aacu.org "what are described as ‘best practices and nonbinding suggestions’ will likely cause another wave of anticipatory compliance and overcorrection given the climate of fear and intimidation created by the weaponization of research funds.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Head of @aacu.org "treating people differently is not always unjust, especially when doing so corrects a broader pattern of systemic injustice. Considering race and gender in the context of historic..discrimination..doesn’t..constitute illegal discrimination" www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Listen to Ted Mitchell from @aceducation.bsky.social "this isn’t policy. This is simple extortion and deal-making, which has no place in a democracy." @higherednick.bsky.social @aacu.org @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social @thefireorg.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
My talk with Sean Illing about how the current assault on #highered is part of the attack on #civilsociety. We must resist authoritarianism. youtu.be/ftLYUy_c16o?... via @vox.com
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“This post-literate world favors demagogues skilled at code-switching between the elite language of policy and the populist one of meme-slop. It favors oligarchs with good social media game and those with more self-assurance than integrity.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read “All of this suggests a bigger, more fundamental goal: to shut down debate, cut off services to disfavored communities and dismantle civil society. These actions are unconstitutional, un-American and harm us all.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
"it sends a chilling message across America that, if you have a late-night comedy show, if you have a law firm, if you are working in an educational institution or a library..or in a museum like the Smithsonian, if you don't please the president, you are at risk" @PBS.org www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
The new lawlessness enforcers. No ID, No accountability. No rights....
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
It's not antisemitic to emphasize that Israel now is responsible for civilian starvation in Gaza. It is not unAmerican to say that the US enables this Israeli policy. Making children starve does nothing to free the hostages. Stop this horror now! @nickkristof.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read @ambpressman.bsky.social on neutrality illusion. “They cling to the illusion that they can preserve their independence and integrity while making deals with a strongman, just as Hungary’s elite believed they, too, could emerge unscathed.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read @mollyjongfast.bsky.social “I got that sometimes our country loses its way. But I never thought I would someday live in an America that looked quite so much like my grandfather’s Cold War nightmare.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Come on, people, Trump wanted @colbertlateshow.bsky.social canceled & @npr.org defunded because of very real concerns about #ViewpointDiversity in late night TV & early morning radio. #neutrality @harvard.edu @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @dgraham.bsky.social
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My take: www.politico.com/news/magazin... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
.@Davidfrenchjag.bsky.social “our default posture should be one of open arms. We should take immense pride that people want to come here. And we should welcome as many as we can reasonably absorb. This is our national heritage” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
🙏 "Roth continues to depict..higher education..as a national treasure..The research accomplishments of our universities..have improved the lives of hundreds of millions around the world. And a college education, he declares, is a truly transformative opportunity." www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“an Israel liberated from the..burden of the Holocaust may finally come to terms with the…need for its 7 mil Jewish citizens to share the land with the 7 mil Palestinians living in Israel, Gaza &the West Bank in peace, equality &dignity.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
American democracy today: It also represents an expansion of presidential power, allowing Mr. Trump to functionally eliminate a government department created by Congress, without legislators’ input…The order by the court was unsigned and gave no reasoning" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“what I have noticed in all of their pitches courting American scientists — whether it’s in Australia or Europe or Latin America — is that they’re offering them freedom of inquiry and respect of facts.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
From my talk with @anandwrites.bsky.social If "the government can successfully persecute these elite schools, then it will be very easy for the government to insist on ideological conformity from other schools... [and] so many schools that could object to this don't." the.ink/p/watch-how-...
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Haftarah from Micah today
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
"The pious are vanished from the land, None upright are left among its people; All lie in wait to commit crimes, Every last one traps the other in a net. They are eager to do evil: The magistrate makes demands, And the judge [judges] for a fee; The rich one makes a crooked plea, And they grant it"
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Anti-science isn’t anti-elitist. It just supports the status quo. “The canceled diversity grant programs were intended to make science less elite, by developing a pipeline from poorer areas of the country that tend to be more conservative.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u... via @nytimes.com
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Talked with @anandwrites.bsky.social about how we can call out government overreach to resist the assault on #highereducation & #civilsociety @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social @aacu.org @aceducation.bsky.social @aaup.org @heterodoxacademy.bsky.social @thefireorg.bsky.social the.ink/p/watch-how-...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“It’s no longer about ideas or governing philosophies. It’s about personal allegiance to a single man, whose positions can shift by the day…our country need more leaders willing to pay a political price to uphold what they know is right.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
My take: "Jim Ryan understood his university’s mission, and he worked with “honesty, integrity, trust and respect” to further it...As we approach Independence Day, it is also a reminder that in the face of tyrannical interference, freedom must be fought for." www.meidasplus.com/p/a-message-...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“Your complaints..about being too woke, about not having enough jobs for white people, about too many women in the academy—have found resonance with an authoritarian push to control our spaces,” @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social president Michael Roth said" www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
POTUS’s war on the freedoms of civil society: “Legal experts said they could think of few other instances in which an administration had demanded that a school have its president removed in order to resolve a Justice Department investigation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u... via @nytimes.com
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Neutrality in the face of Nazi threats....We've seen this before. But awarding prizes? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read @nickkristof.bsky.social “Here’s what I see: Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off, and risks of Ebola, tuberculosis and other diseases reaching America are increasing — while medicines sit uselessly in warehouses.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
on false agency being no substitute for science “I see what MAHA is offering. It’s not really about making America healthy. It’s about giving people the illusion of agency in a complicated and scary world. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o... via @NYTOpinion
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“The new culture of political violence is being reinforced. When we move on too quickly from an attack against our society’s organizing ideas, we normalize it. The next shooter..sees a society that accepts violence. Forgetting is dangerous. It encourages repetition.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“Democracy doesn’t fall from any one decision or any one attack. It falls from a thousand cuts that slowly erode our fundamental freedoms. It falls when good people see our democracy sliding backward but still choose to say nothing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Great turnout at #NoKings rally in Great Barrington MA
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
"There shall be one law for you, whether stranger or citizen of the country." Numbers 9:14 #TorahStudy
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“antisemitism seems to be a rare type of bigotry that some intellectuals are uncomfortable rebuking…Jewish Americans [are]at a greater risk of being victimized by a hate crime than any other group..liv[ing]with fears..they never expected to experience in this country” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
From one @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social alumnus to another: Lin presents Tony to Jeffrey url:https://www.wesleyan.edu/about/news/2025/06/blog/tony-charms.html www.wesleyan.edu/about/news/2...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Both of these are true. Antisemitism in the US is real, vicious & breeds the violence of terrorism. The White House is using antisemitism as an excuse to attack universities in order to impose its own ideology (& demand loyalty). We can defend Jews without undermining education.
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“We can not build bananas in America”
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“The vertical relationship creates horizontal obligations. While Christians can certainly differ, for example, on the best way to provide health care to our nation’s most vulnerable citizens, it’s hard to see how we can disagree on the need to care for the poor.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Attacks on #highered are attacks on American freedoms @aacu.org @thefireorg.bsky.social @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social @harvard.edu @chronicle.com @insidehighered.com @aaup.bsky.social @aceducation.bsky.social @facethenation.bsky.social @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy www.cbsnews.com/video/wesley...
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“The Trump administration is really using totalitarian or even authoritarian practices,” Mr. Nadler said. “We have to fight them. We don’t want to be a fascist country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/n...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read @mollyjongfast.bsky.social’s new book about her mother “I write about her, she writes about me,” Ms. Jong said. “If you want to be an honest writer, you have to speak about it all. None of it bothers me.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/s...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“If the government can coerce the richest school in America without due process, it can crush a community college—or a civil-liberties nonprofit—without batting an eyelid.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
David Brooks: “point to the moral rot at the core of Trumpism, which every day disgraces our country…Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most primitive, atavistic tendencies.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...
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“I think it is terribly misguided, counterproductive and another way in which we are shooting ourselves in the foot,” said Michael S. Roth, president of @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read @mashagessen.bsky.social “And so just when we most need to act — while there is indeed room for action and some momentum to the resistance — we tend to be lulled into complacency by the sense of relief on the one hand and boredom on the other.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
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From my Commencement remarks at @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
My Commencement talk @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social: "Practicing education is like practicing democracy..both depend on inclusion rather than segregation. & both are now very much endangered. If we don’t defend education &protect democracy we will lose them as vital parts of our American heritage"
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Over Commencement weekend at @weslpress.bsky.social I talked with @cnn.com about attacks on #HigherEd www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ihmux...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
"We are being asked not to charge into a hail of...artillery fire but only to speak up and to stand up in the face of foundational threats to the principles for which they gave the last full measure of devotion." @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
From my graduation talk @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social "Practicing education is like practicing democracy – both are collaborative, experimental paths of improvement, both depend on inclusion rather segregation. Both are now very much endangered." #FreeSpeech #DefendDemocracy #HigherEducation
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read @nickkristof.bsky.social “Wherever there is authoritarianism, there is corruption.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“We cannot let cruelty stand.” “the inhumanity of these immigration sweeps — the brutal glee of rounding up human beings, people who live and work in our midst — is what brings me closest to irrecoverable despair.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read @michellegoldberg.bsky.social In the twisted logic of Project Esther..also the logic of..Trump’s war on academia— ultra-Zionist gentiles get to lecture Jews about antisemitism even as they lay waste to the liberal culture that has allowed American Jews to thrive” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“The only private individuals left in Germany…are people sleeping.” Beradt suggests that [this] “underestimated the dictatorship’s powers.” By annihilating the boundary between private and political, a state can make even sleep subject to its dominion.” www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Very honored bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
“free expression should also encourage an ability to listen to those with whom one disagrees. Free speech matters when the commitment to diversity creates safe enough spaces for people with very different views to explore those differences.” @velshi.com @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @aacu.org
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
It was an honor to share in the festivities & to celebrate freedom of expression. @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social
More than 600 supporters of writers and free expression gathered for the 2025 PEN America Literary Gala to celebrate the freedoms to write, read and speak and to honor defenders of these rights at a perilous moment. Read more: pen.org/press-releas... #PENGala
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Remembering Anne Greene www.wesleyan.edu/about/news/2...
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
It's not only about the Ivy League and advanced research. It's about destroying independent sources of authority or expertise. @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @aacu.org @thefireorg.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social @aceducation.bsky.social @velshimsnbc.bsky.social @msnbc.com
Michael S Roth (@msroth.bsky.social)
Read Lee Siegel "the conceptual means by which this traditionalist right is attempting to re-establish bygone American myths are right out of a Columbia seminar on poststructuralism: there are no facts, only narratives competing for power" www.newstatesman.com/internationa...