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Michael S Roth

8 months

My new book explores how we invest so much in students because we want them to be learning freedom, to think for themselves in the company of others. #students #HigherEd #History @wesleyan_u

Yale University Press

@yalepress

8 months

Michael S. Roth @mroth78 on his new book with Yale Univeristy Press, The Student: A Short History! #education #students #history

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

7 months

Nothing is more patronizing &Orientalist than the romanticization of Hamas’s butchers, whom many Arabs despise. The denial of their atrocities by so many..is an attempt 2fashion acceptable heroes out of an organization that dismembers babies &defiles the bodies of murdered girls.

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7 months

The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous Inhumane Toxic and Historically False. And it rejects totally indeed makes impossible the two states of Israel & Palestine that is the only way this is important but do read whole article b4 you condemn it.

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4 years

"I didn’t like the outcome [in] 2008..But I had a duty to concede, &I did so w/o reluctance.A concession isn’t just an exercise in graciousness. It is an act of respect for the will of the American people,a respect that is every American leader’s first responsibility” John McCain

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

And here we are: “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” – “1984” GeorgeOrwell

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@mroth78

6 years

Read how @HamiltonMusical creators continue to inspire creativity @Wesleyan_u today #WesCreative @Lin_Manuel

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

Tired but still dreaming about a good 2020, Mathilde sends best wishes for the new year from ⁦ @wesleyan_u ⁩

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

2 years

Read ⁦ @davidfrum ⁩ “Racist ideology is an evil in itself. But the American exception that bathes this country in blood &grief..is not that we are uniquely susceptible to racism... The American exception is the unique ease of access to weapons.”

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

Sometimes, when a country loses a war, the central govt disappears, leaving chaos, shortages of essentials, etc. We are losing a war against the virus.The central govt is absent from the field but somehow still noisily present, crying for the Confederacy, dreaming of monuments.

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

Just voted @wesleyan_u at 6:45 am — No waiting & delighted to see students there already from @wes_wlax #E2020 @Wes_engage @wes_athletics

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

6 years

Colleges should agree with @nytdavidbrooks on this: "People who don’t have regular contact with people they disagree with become intellectually dishonest quickly." #IntellectualDiversity @HdxAcademy #LiberalEducation

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

Read ⁦ @anneapplebaum ⁩ “By talking about Hunter Biden, the Trump family...also hopes to deflect attention from their own greatest weakness, namely the amoral, kleptocratic nepotism that they embody like no family ever before in American history.”

You’re Not Supposed to Understand the Rumors About Biden

To raise doubts about the Democratic nominee, right-wing-media smears don’t even need to make sense.

www.theatlantic.com

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

Read ⁦ @jbouie ⁩ “A president who speaks of shooting people in the street — who elevates those who threaten to shoot people in the street — cannot be separated from the individual who does, eventually, shoot people in the street.”via @NYTOpinion

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@mroth78

4 years

Read ⁦ @NickKristof ⁩ “We imprisoned the homeless tax cheat for trying to get her son a decent education, & we elevated the self-entitled rich guy with an army of lawyers and accountants so that he could monetize the White House as well” @NYTOpinion

Opinion | Who’s the Tax Cheat: The Lady in Jail or the Man in the White House? (Published 2020)

Donald Trump knows that taxes are for the poor.

www.nytimes.com

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

What if after we washed our hands, we began the work necessary to elect competent representatives who took seriously the interests of ordinary people? We could take a break from time to time to wash again, but then stop this madness by really engaging in the public sphere. #E2020

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

You gotta rest between zoom calls #Lola

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

3 years

Or?

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

1 year

. @jelani9 “Trump did not single-handedly inject..intolerance, racism, nativism, belligerence, &a durable sympathy for anti-democratic behavior into the [GOP], &there is no reason to believe that his absence would cause them to evaporate” via @NewYorker

The Enduring Power of Trumpism

No matter what becomes of Donald Trump, the forces of intolerance, racism, and belligerence he harnessed in American politics will persist.

www.newyorker.com

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@mroth78

3 years

Read @NickKristof “Educated white Americans are now repulsed at the thought of systems of separate and unequal drinking fountains for Black Americans but seem comfortable with a Jim Crow financing system resulting in unequal schools for Black children”

Opinion | If Only There Were a Viral Video of Our Jim Crow Education System (Published 2021)

The George Floyd case may represent a milestone of progress in criminal justice. But can we expand this recognition of unfairness and inequity to other spheres?

www.nytimes.com

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

2 years

Lola found a way to beat the heat.

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

3 years

This is a pathetic attempt to stifle one of the most important voices about US history. We'd welcome @nhannahjones here @wesleyan_u

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

10 months

. @wesleyan_u will work to diversify its student body..by recruiting more students from low-income and rural communities..the institution also remains focused on increasing financial aid. “Ending preferential legacy admission is the easy part,” via @WSJ

Wesleyan University Ends Legacy Preferences in Admissions

The liberal-arts college said it would end legacy preference in its admissions practices, after the Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action earlier this summer.

www.wsj.com

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

Read @crampell "our admissions flatlined because Trump announced and then delayed signing a new refugee ceiling for the 2020 fiscal year. This delay led to a complete moratorium on admissions."

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

2 months

My take: "incidents of hate on college campuses are appalling, but they should not distract us from the most important task right now: getting aid to Palestinians in Gaza while there is still time to save lives." @insidehighered

Cease-fire now: “neutrality” is complicity (opinion)

Michael S. Roth pushes back against calls for college leaders to stay silent.

www.insidehighered.com

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

Remembering your @wesleyan_u #CommencementSpeech 2008: “it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential and discover the role that you’ll play in writing the next great chapter in the American story

Barack Obama

@BarackObama

4 years

Congrats to the high school Class of 2020, as well as to the teachers, coaches, and most of all, parents and family who’ve guided you along the way. Thanks for letting me be part of your big day!

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

22 days

"On campuses across the country, Islamophobia &antisemitic harassment can destroy the conditions for learning, but mass arrests of peaceful protestors &the censorship of speakers for their political views only undermine academic freedom in the long run."

Academic Freedom Is More Important Now Than Ever

We only have academic freedom because of guarantees established by generations of political struggle.

time.com

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

1 year

Such nonsense. Many schools have been protecting academic freedom a long time. The serious threat now isn’t from students, trigger warnings, celebrity speakers being heckled. No, it’s from governments defunding #highered , banning books, decimating tenure

Opinion | These universities are pushing back on censorious students. Finally.

Cornell, Penn. State and others defend academic inquiry, which has been under assault for too long.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

So sad to say goodbye to our beloved #Mathilde

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

Read ⁦ @anneapplebaum ⁩ “The point is not to compare Trump to Hitler or Stalin; the point is to compare the experiences of high-ranking members of the American Republican establishment to the experiences of Frenchmen in 1940, or of East Germans”

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

Read ⁦ @NickKristof ⁩ on courts & social change “it is difficult for people who are denied voting rights to protect their voting rights, and judicial passivism in these cases would have buttressed discrimination, racism, sexism and bigotry” @NYTOpinion

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

5 months

Why are we so easily fooled? The same people who today say they are worried about antisemitism on campus were worried just last week about the "war on Christmas."

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

She is as sweet as she looks! #Lola

Wesleyan University

@wesleyan_u

4 years

🎶 Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets 🐾 Meet Lola, the newest member of the family of @mroth78 and University Professor of Letters Kari Weil! We look forward to seeing this sweet face around campus. #TogetherWes #DogsOfWesleyan

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

5 months

“Our campuses should never be so protective that intellectual confrontation is off-limits, and they should foster forms of inclusion and respect..We can say “no” to calls for violence while cultivating the free speech essential for learning.” #SafeEnough

Opinion: College presidents are supposed to be moral leaders, not evasive bureaucrats

Leaders at University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and MIT failed to show moral clarity and good sense with evasive answers regarding calls for the genocide of Jews.

www.latimes.com

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

2 years

Devastating essay by @andrewscurran & @HenryLouisGates "Such were the limits of the era’s humanism &universalism: the Enlightenment’s quest to improve the human condition seemed perfectly compatible with the economic imperatives of African chattel slavery"

Inventing the Science of Race | Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran

In 1712 King Louis XIV of France signed the lettres patentes that formally established Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences, Belles Lettres, and Arts, a

www.nybooks.com

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

Read ⁦ @FrankBruni ⁩ “I want as many broadly educated, deeply reflective citizens and leaders as possible...when it comes to treating one another like fuller human beings, we need all the help we can get” #LiberalEducationMatters via @NYTOpinion

Opinion | The End of College as We Knew It? (Published 2020)

Restaurants get eulogies. Airlines get bailouts. Shakespeare gets kicked when he’s down.

www.nytimes.com

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@mroth78

4 years

Read ⁦⁦ @cwarzel ⁩ “The idea is simple: If low-risk people don’t socially distance, then the entire containment process is not effective...it’s more likely that a low-risk individual will expose a high-risk individual to the virus.” via @NYTOpinion

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@mroth78

4 years

In order to be safe enough spaces for learning, colleges must have access to rapid testing, basic contact tracing & provide guided, supportive isolation. We must also provide (masked) opportunities to socialize without large crowds. #HarmReduction #SafeEnoughSpaces

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@mroth78

4 years

Read ⁦ @NickKristof ⁩ “Trump isn’t trying to quell violence in Portland. No, he’s provoking it to divert attention from 140,000 Covid-19 deaths in the United States. Once again, he’s tear-gassing peaceful protesters to generate a photo op” @NYTOpinion

Opinion | In Portland’s So-Called War Zone, It’s the Troops Who Provide the Menace (Published 2020)

If President Trump is actually trying to establish order, he is stunningly incompetent.

www.nytimes.com

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@mroth78

4 months

My take on why educators should encourage civic engagement ...because if we "don’t participate in the public sphere then the public sphere will be further degraded by the loudest and dumbest voices.” @wesleyan_u @ctzns_schlrs @aacu via @BostonGlobe

The impossible role of university presidents: ‘Who would take this job in this day and age?’ - The...

Public attacks, government interference, and the polarized political climate have made it more challenging than ever to run a major university.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

6 years

Liberal education from St. John’s prez “Education should prepare you for all of your life. It should make you a more thoughtful, reflective, self-possessed and authentic citizen, lover, partner, parent and member of the global economy.” via @FrankBruni

Opinion | The Most Contrarian College in America (Published 2018)

What’s the highest calling of higher education? St. John’s College has some enduring answers.

www.nytimes.com

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

Congratulations!

PEET Karolczak

@DurianPeet

4 years

Congratulations to my daughter Sophie, who #graduated -at-home this morning from @Wesleyan_U ! Not quite the ceremony anyone was expecting but the online version was still beautiful! Next stop... University of Toronto for her PhD!

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

The political conventions are over, & now all colleges & universities must defend the right to vote, encourage civic engagement & make it easier for their eligible students & surrounding communities to cast ballots. It’s core to our mission in #HigherEd @aacu @wesleyan_u #E2020

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

9 months

First copy of THE STUDENT: A SHORT HISTORY arrived from @yalepress You can preorder now (please).

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

What if every eligible student was reminded (again & again) this semester to register and vote? Along with our #E2020 partner schools, we’ll do this @wesleyan_u Whether you are online or on a campus, #Vote like your education depended on it. It does.

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@mroth78

3 years

Today I once again will have the incredible experience of presiding over Commencement @wesleyan_u . We'll be on the same field where my Mom and I took this pic in 1978. #Grateful

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

A preview of my #Commencement2020 remarks tomorrow @wesleyan_u "We need your help in social distancing, to be sure, but we more profoundly need your help in social knitting, reweaving a civic fabric that has been pulled apart in the defense of inequality and privilege."

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@mroth78

1 year

Read ⁦ @MichaelEDyson ⁩ “Ye, Irving and the rest of us would do well to remember that African Americans and Jews are passengers on the same ship facing the ferocious headwinds of bigotry and hatred.” via @NYTOpinion

Opinion | Blacks and Jews, Again (Published 2022)

Blacks and Jews have competed, quarreled and jostled with each other to gain attention and empathy for our struggles and the injustices we confront.

www.nytimes.com

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@mroth78

1 year

My take: “Higher education in the United States can be pragmatic without being conformist, and liberal education can inspire students to think for themselves in ways that include learning from people with views different from their own.” @wesleyan_u

Perspective | Some see liberal arts education as elitist. Why it’s really pragmatic.

A liberal arts college president describes why the field meets the moment in which the United States finds itself.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@mroth78

4 years

Read disturbing ⁦ @bariweiss ⁩ “even those who seek to uplift the marginalized can’t seem to find their voice when it comes to Jews facing anti-Semitism” via @NYTOpinion

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@mroth78

5 years

Read Zadie Smith "what insults my soul is the idea—popular in the culture just now...that we can and should write only about people who are fundamentally “like” us: racially, sexually, genetically, nationally, politically, personally." via @nybooks

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@mroth78

4 years

First snow of the season @wesleyan_u

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

2 years

Read @mervatim "Between the person and the page lies the prism of fiction, always. No genre can avoid it. Even criticism, if it is to speak of the lives and works of the dead, must bring the dead to life—the words of the past distilled in the words of the present." @nybooks

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

In #HigherEd some of our students are on campus, some virtual. Doesn't matter. 7 Weeks Until Election Day & efforts to suppress the vote continue. We must inspire students and teachers to: Organize, Register, and Turn Out to Vote. @Wes_engage #E2020

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@mroth78

2 years

Read @DKThomp :"But those who spend a lifetime delaying gratification may one day find themselves rich in savings but poor in memories, having sacrificed too much joy at the altar of compounding interest. There is more to life than optimized savings habits"

All the Personal-Finance Books Are Wrong

They tend to treat their readers like fools without willpower. So you could argue that they’re wrong for the right reasons.

www.theatlantic.com

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@mroth78

4 years

I LOVE this library @wesleyan_u

Wesleyan Library

@Wesleyan_Lib

4 years

Wow, look at this - students! Studying in the library! Even from 6 feet away and with most of your faces covered, it’s so good to see you again.

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@mroth78

5 years

Well, I made a post I didn’t intend to. I am sorry. I should take a break from Twitter.

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@mroth78

4 years

Mary Shelley Died on this day “My soul glowed with love and humanity, but am I not alone, miserably alone? You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing?”

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@mroth78

1 year

Lola is off to teach "Art and Ideas" @wesleyan_u ! Wish her luck!

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@mroth78

4 years

Yesterday I walked over to where I stand every year @wesleyan_u to congratulate our graduates. We won't be able to do that on campus this May, but we will find another time when it's safe! #MissingStudents

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@mroth78

4 years

Read ⁦ @NickKristof ⁩ “Death certificates may record the coronavirus as the cause of death, but in a larger sense vast numbers of Americans died because their government was incompetent” #DidntHaveToBeThisWay via @NYTOpinion

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@mroth78

4 years

Statement from @wesleyan_u "Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd. We speak their names with sorrow and with anger…We witness, and we are disgusted; we witness, and we are enraged; we witness, and we mourn." @Wes_engage #BlackLivesMatter

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@mroth78

3 years

These guys clearly didn't see the "no visitors" sign @wesleyan_u

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@mroth78

4 years

Read @AdamWeinstein "This all sent the same message. That message has been received by men around the country..who seem to believe that Trump, Barr, Cotton & the border patrol speak to them directly. The message is: Join the fascist party. We’re winning"

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

1 year

I have a little book coming out at the end of the summer. You can pre-order. The Student: A Short History

The Student

From the president of Wesleyan University, an illuminating history of the student, spanning from antiquity to Zoom “[Roth] has a clear vision for what i...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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@mroth78

3 years

Early morning on the first day of classes @wesleyan_u Looks like Lola is ready!

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@mroth78

4 years

Even though this Commencement was unlike any other, I still felt joy & admiration for the achievements of students ⁦ @wesleyan_u ⁩ & gratitude for the support of families, faculty & staff #WesTogether

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@mroth78

10 months

. @Yair_Rosenberg “Because anti-Semitism has produced centuries of material pinning humanity’s problems on its Jews, a person convinced that an invisible hand is conducting world affairs will eventually discover that it belongs to an invisible Jew.”

The Most Shocking Aspect of RFK Jr.’s Anti-Semitism

What’s surprising isn’t that Kennedy voiced an anti-Jewish conspiracy, but that it took this long.

www.theatlantic.com

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@mroth78

2 years

Read ⁦ @ebruenig ⁩ “Nihilism arrives not as society fading quietly to dust but as fruit flush with lurid color, ripening until it bursts. It is the fruit of a culture of death.” ⁦ @TheAtlantic ⁩

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@mroth78

4 years

Watching the grand "Angels in America" with a student @wesleyan_u "The worst thing about being sick in America...is that you're booted out of the parade...That's America. It's just no country for the infirm."

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@mroth78

9 months

Read @DavidAFrench “Trump & his allies will abuse our nation whether we hold him accountable or not. The abuse is the constant reality of Trump and the movement he leads…only accountability has any real hope of stopping the abuse.” via @NYTOpinion

Opinion | Appeasing Donald Trump Won’t Work

A conservative legal argument offers a path to avoid a second term, if only there were the will to take it.

www.nytimes.com

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@mroth78

1 year

Read ⁦ @michelleinbklyn ⁩ on radical right-wing destruction of academic freedom, local control, and open inquiry. This is not conservatism. The stench of ethno-nationalist authoritarianism will suffocate education. via @NYTOpinion

Opinion | This Is What the Right-Wing Takeover of a Progressive College Looks Like (Published 2023)

The slow and steady dismantling of New College of Florida.

www.nytimes.com

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@mroth78

5 years

So many great colleges in this country & you don’t have to buy your way into them. No ‘special admissions track’ for the rich needed. The real scandal is that poverty is so hard to escape because there is a separate K-12 education system for the poor.

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@mroth78

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Mark Mazower on Columbia “one may find the protesters infuriating, intolerant and self-righteous. But the one thing they have not been in these days is violent.” via @ft

The week that shook Columbia

Protests over Gaza at the New York university have led to divisions and arrests. History professor Mark Mazower gives a first-hand account

www.ft.com

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@mroth78

5 years

“There’s an algorithmic bias that inherently benefits hate and negativity and anger” #HowFascismWorksToday ⁦ @jasonintrator ⁩ via @NYTimes

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@mroth78

4 years

Build an Anti-Racist Community in Which Hatred and Intolerance Have No Place -- Statement from @wesleyan_u leadership

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@mroth78

1 year

Congratulations @wesleyan_u alum Thomas Kail! Bravo!! “what is Broadway for if not a “Sweeney” that, however rare, is this well-done?” via ⁦ @nytimesarts ⁩

Review: The Many Thrilling Flavors of a Full-Scale ‘Sweeney Todd’ (Published 2023)

Sondheim’s masterpiece, restored to its proper size and sung to the hilt by Josh Groban, makes a welcome Broadway return.

www.nytimes.com

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@mroth78

5 years

Thinking of & reading @AdyBarkan as he struggles against ALS and for our future “It was through collective struggle, I began to realize, that I could find my personal liberation. I could transcend my dying body by hitching my future to yours.” #EyesToTheWind #MakeMeaning #BeAHero

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4 years

My take on why Trump needs violence “A climate of fierce intensity is easily transformed into a climate of fear, and this president has a gift for leveraging the fears of others to his own benefit” via @thenation

Violence Is Donald Trump’s Mother Tongue

As the latest episodes reveal, the “Trump and Violence Show” is the president’s cynical attempt to promote a response in the streets that might actually require law enforcement action.

www.thenation.com

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@mroth78

2 years

I do think it is a problem, both for conservatives and for Wesleyan.

David Decosimo

@DavidDecosimo

2 years

I’d be curious to hear @mroth78 reflect on whether he thinks this represents a problem for Wesleyan: .01% of students ID as conservative & 86% ID as liberal, making it arguably the most politically uniform campus in the US & far less politically diverse than Hillsdale or BYU.

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@mroth78

3 years

Read ⁦ @michelleinbklyn ⁩ “With the rush to ban critical race theory, conservatives already gave up posturing as defenders of free speech. Still, this sudden mania for book banning is striking.” via @NYTOpinion

Opinion | A Frenzy of Book Banning (Published 2021)

The right-wing war on school libraries.

www.nytimes.com

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@mroth78

8 years

. @NickKristof "Jesus’ message morphed from “love your neighbor” to “Democrats are the enemy.” God should sue.

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@mroth78

4 years

Lola Weil-Roth has joined the family!

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

12 days

Thanks very much!

Jan-Albert Hootsen

@jahootsen

12 days

I think @wesleyan_u president Michael S. Roth gives a good example of how the leadership of a university should respond to the current situation. (Image via @carlosbravoreg )

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1 year

Read ⁦ @jbouie ⁩ “we face an organized political movement to undermine this grant of universal rights and elevate the rights of states over those of people, in order to protect and secure traditional patterns of domination and status.” via @NYTOpinion

Opinion | The Real Threat to Freedom Is Coming From the States

We have a long history with various forms of sub-national authoritarianism.

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

Read powerful, sad review by @jenszalai on @benjaminwittes & @Susan_Hennessey “What makes the current presidency truly unprecedented, they say, is how Trump combines a seething vindictiveness with a total lack of interest in governing.” via @nytimesbooks

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

5 months

We are trying to organize students in an initiative called Democracy2024 ( #D2024 )

Opinion: College presidents are supposed to be moral leaders, not evasive bureaucrats

Leaders at University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and MIT failed to show moral clarity and good sense with evasive answers regarding calls for the genocide of Jews.

www.latimes.com

Mark Jacob

@MarkJacob16

5 months

More Nazi talk from Trump. Immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” We’ve got 11 months to fight against a MAGA fascist dictatorship. Get your friends and family to see sense and help us save our country.

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@mroth78

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Common sense truths from @NickKristof about powerful effects of earl childhood education “Families desperately need help. In other countries, they get it. In the United States, they get empty homilies about the importance of family.”

Opinion | Turning Child Care Into a New Cold War (Published 2021)

Republicans talk a good game about families. And then stiff them.

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

“In these days of malicious mendacity and vulgar mediocrity” I’d endorse @MichaelEDyson ...

Michael Eric Dyson

@MichaelEDyson

4 years

Many of my followers across the country have asked me who I’m supporting for the presidency. I’m proud to offer my endorsement of Vice President @JoeBiden as our nation’s next president. This video explains why. I hope you’ll join me in supporting this worthy man for president.

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

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"Many institutions today have forgotten that liberal education itself was meant to teach the art of choosing, to train the young to use reason to decide which endeavors merit the investment of their lives." @nytopinion @AEI

Opinion | The Art of Choosing What to Do With Your Life (Published 2022)

The liberal arts can help students lead happier lives.

www.nytimes.com

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

1978 with my Mom at graduation. Getting suited up soon for #commencement2020 @wesleyan_u

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

2 years

Excited to swim this evening ⁦ @wesleyan_u ⁩ in my first race in 30 years! Lifeguards on duty! ⁦ @wes_athletics ⁩

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

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.⁦ @jbouie ⁩ “Institutions matter, but so does virtue..Even if it is insincere, the performance of virtue helps inculcate those values in the public at large. It says..this is how we behave, even as we fight for power &political influence” @nytopinion

Opinion | This Is What Happens When Republicans Tear Off Their Masks (Published 2022)

Even by the degraded standards of 2022, it has been shocking to watch conservative media personalities and politicians respond to the brutal attack on Paul Pelosi.

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

4 years

May I point out that @JasonAdamK is a @wesleyan_u alumnus & prof (now working from home)

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Michael S Roth

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Welcome #Classof2022 to ⁦ @wesleyan_u ⁩

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

5 years

One of the great #Homecoming victories for @Wes_Football to claim #LittleThree championship #CardinalPride @wesleyan_u @wes_athletics #WeAreWes

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

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ICYMI "A truly robust civic education must encompass the full suite of aptitudes necessary for good citizenship."

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@mroth78

1 year

Read @JenLouiseWilson "remember that this is the first sign of trouble — if books are banned, that means things are going wrong. It means that you are surrounded by force, fear and ignorance, that power is in the hands of barbarians.” @nytimesbooks

‘One Cannot Explain It With Words’: The Holocaust by Bullets (Published 2023)

Anatoly Kuznetsov’s documentary novel “Babi Yar” relives the Nazis’ execution of tens of thousands of Jews in 1941.

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

1 year

My take on the most important theorist of history in the last 100 years. @histandtheojrnl @ekleinberg @mervatim @sojournerlife @wesleyan_u @MIHJournal @theoryofhistory @Crittheory @GutkinLen

Los Angeles Review of Books

@LAReviewofBooks

1 year

"White was an ironic anti-foundationalist – a thinker eager to undermine the ways that we moderns have found new gods to worship or essences to piously respect." @mroth78 considers Hayden White’s “The Ethics of Narrative.”

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Michael S Roth

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Congratulations to @Wes_Lacrosse coach JOHN RABA for being named @NCAADIII Coach of the Year by @USILA_Lax @Wes_Athletics @wesleyan_u #CardinalPride

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

6 years

We need serious study of #Conservative ideas on university campuses for #IntellectualDiversity , but we must reject efforts to #UniteTheRight through scapegoating. @HdxAcademy My review of Scruton:

Defending Conservatism, and Seeking Converts (Published 2018)

Roger Scruton’s “Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition” is intended not only for the author’s political allies but for liberals too.

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Michael S Roth

@mroth78

3 years

Read the always insightful ⁦ @jbouie ⁩ on possible historical analogies for understanding our present ( ⁦ @jelani9 ⁩ too) via @NYTOpinion

Opinion | The G.O.P. Isn’t Going to Split Apart Anytime Soon (Published 2021)

But is the party in danger of fracturing over its wavering commitment to democracy?

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