Change (Snow) Happens – Roth on Wesleyan

Green Foss Hill earlier this term.

First snow on Andrus Field and Foss Hill.

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Michael S Roth 6 hours ago

Many years, ago visiting NYC late one night I headed to Bemelan’s Bar at Carlyle to listen to incomparable Barbara Carroll play piano...there was #TonyBennett I started to say something silly like how much I loved his..” Isn’t SHE amazing,” he said smiling. #LoveAndRespect

Michael S Roth 10 hours ago

So much to love about #TonyBennett on his birthday, but this with #AmyWinehouse is right up there. youtube.com/watch?v=_OFMkC…

Michael S Roth 11 hours ago

Congratulations to this wonderful scholar/teacher! @wesleyan_u @goldfishglitter #WesEducation newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2020/07/30/shu…

Shusterman Awarded $1.8M NSF Grant to Design and Test Preschool Math Games

Michael S Roth 18 hours ago

Read powerful ⁦@MargaretRenkl⁩ “I have been thinking about the way human beings, the deadliest predators of all, keep finding new ways to destroy everything that sustains the planet that sustains us.” #CareAboutSuffering via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2020/08/03/opi…

Michael S Roth 1 day ago

“To take time to see the things we need to set our courses toward or against; the things we need to think about to know what we should do next. To trust in careful observation and expertise, in its sharing for the common good.” ⁦⁦@HelenJMacdonald⁩ nytimes.com/2020/07/29/mag…

Michael S Roth 2 days ago

Read @NewYorker review Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on Phillis Weatley "rereads Phillis’s story, and, to an extent, rewrites it: the life of the first documented African-American poet is set forth in verse by a Black poet of the 21st century" @weslpress newyorker.com/books/under-re…

MaggieCaroline 2 days ago

I’ll be chanting Kol Nidre via crowdcast/zoom this year. If you’re looking for a place to attend/hear/sing/ etc. sign up here: (obviously, free) eepurl.com/g72h61 Retweeted by Michael S Roth

Michael S Roth 2 days ago

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Michael S Roth 2 days ago

"We monitor the pandemic’s spread with concern. So many lives lost, so much dislocation, so many in distress...to provide an educational oasis in these troubled times, we must cooperate to protect the most vulnerable and break the chains of transmission." roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2020/08/01/aug…

August Begins with Thoughts of the Fall

Michael S Roth 2 days ago

Joel Fineman told me when I was a student that it showed you were unsure of yourself and were compensating twitter.com/RitaFelski/sta…

genuinely curious: why the academic tic of repeatedly using the phrase "of course" in one's writing? Its main function seems to be to create an in-group and exclude others. Also used to bolster one's claims via appeals to a higher authority: "of course, as Lyotard argues..."
— Rita Felski (@RitaFelski) July 30, 2020

Michael S Roth 2 days ago

Gee, I wonder if other countries have thought of that.... twitter.com/_RoxanneRobert…

The Lincoln Project on trolling Trump: “The fact that we’re able to use his mental infirmity and addiction to television to freeze him and manipulate him serves a broader purpose for the overall campaign in terms of...disorganizing and disorienting him.” https://t.co/0YyAVjUcgF
— Roxanne Roberts (@_RoxanneRoberts) August 1, 2020

Michael S Roth 2 days ago

Read @dsallentess Congress “should distribute some portion of that needed public health appropriation in the form of bonus funds to states that establish formal regional collaborations for addressing the crucial matter of testing.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

Michael S Roth 2 days ago

Read @jasonintrator “If we only ever worried about regimes that were fascist, we would be helpless in the face of social and political movements that sought eventually to transform liberal democracies in more fascist direction” english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2… via @elpaisinenglish

Michael S Roth 2 days ago

"Yes, there’s a certain satisfaction in being critical of our authors, but isn’t it more interesting to put ourselves in a frame of mind to find inspiration in them?" opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/10/you… twitter.com/AgnesCallard/s…

"Why are we persuaded that we know more than the texts that precede us? The advantage of our hindsight is compensated for by their robustness, resilience, and continuing resonance"

"Context Stinks" by @RitaFelski: historicism obscures the sociability & (nonhuman) agency of texts pic.twitter.com/E8JFd1qq64
— Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) August 1, 2020

Michael S Roth 3 days ago

Amazing ⁦@parul_sehgal⁩ on "desperate resurrections” “What is this perplexing obligation to endure?What are the limits and consolations of language? What is the self that can survive the death of a beloved child?Do we still call that existence life? nytimes.com/2020/07/28/boo…

Michael S Roth 3 days ago

“Memorial Drive forces the reader to think about how the sublime Southern conjurers of words, spaces, sounds & patterns protect themselves from trauma when trauma may be, in part, what nudged them down the dusty road to poetic mastery” ⁦@KieseLaymon⁩ nytimes.com/2020/07/30/boo…

Michael S Roth 3 days ago

Presidential animosity towards foreigners goes way back. John Adams: “We have had too many French philosophers already” ⁦@jenszalai⁩ ⁦@JuliaRoseKraut⁩ via ⁦@nytimesbooks⁩ nytimes.com/2020/07/30/boo…

Michael S Roth 3 days ago

Read ⁦@DwightGarner⁩ on the great new book by ⁦@Isabelwilkerson⁩ “It takes resolve and a strong stomach to stare at the particulars, rather than the generalities, of lives under slavery and Jim Crow and recent American experience.” via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2020/07/31/boo…

Michael S Roth 3 days ago

So true! This, as you know, also made him an extraordinary teacher! I am still trying to learn from him. twitter.com/ritafelski/sta…

Having Richard Rorty as a colleague transformed my way of writing--I don't always agree with his ideas but I continue to marvel at his ability to convey complex thoughts in colloquial and engaging prose
— Rita Felski (@RitaFelski) August 1, 2020

Michael S Roth 3 days ago

@sara_mccrea So sorry, Sara.