snow – Roth on Wesleyan

A snowy start to the reading period before finals. How perfect.

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Michael S Roth 3 mins ago

Read ⁦@nytdavidbrooks⁩ “If you can understand another person’s perspective, you have a more valuable skill than the skill possessed by some machine vacuuming up vast masses of data about no one in particular.” via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2023/02/02/opi…

N. K. Jemisin 2 days ago

I had nothing but contempt for the College Board before this -- profiteering and education shouldn't mix -- but this craven whitewash of our history in order to appease the neoklans is intolerable. You've become the latest example of the very racism we face, @CollegeBoard. Retweeted by Michael S Roth

Cathy Davidson 13 hours ago

Thank you @OAH. Anyone who studies McCarthyism had to stand up to this now. Right @ACLS1919, @MLAnews, @AmerStudiesAssn @AAUP, @ncte… twitter.com/The_OAH/status… Retweeted by Michael S Roth

Michael S Roth 13 hours ago

Nobody tell @RonDeSantisFL that #BruceSpringsteen is in FL indoctrinating young & old youtu.be/EygSxgytxm4

Michael S Roth 14 hours ago

Read @BadDebutante⁩ “Smart students..can handle paradox. I plan to carry on teaching…The point of education is to produce not just pliant cogs but thinking citizens with knowledge of the rich & expansive ways to be human. That is genuine freedom.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Scott Shepard 2 days ago

Beware of members of the elite (NYT editorial board) telling members of the unwashed masses that they don't need no college education. twitter.com/mroth78/status… Retweeted by Michael S Roth

Jeffrey Goldberg 2 days ago

Governor DeSantis does not want you to read this article: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… Retweeted by Michael S Roth

Michael S Roth 17 hours ago

"the College Board has decided that American students don’t have to know about important contemporary controversies in American life..it eliminated topics like reparations because they were “quite dense” & because students preferred primary sources." nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…

Wesleyan University 19 hours ago

Who are the many voices that make Wesleyan Wesleyan? Meet Tony Zosherafatain '10—director and producer of GLAAD-award nominated "Trans in Trumpland"—as we catch up with him over 8 questions. Retweeted by Michael S Roth

Michael S Roth 18 hours ago

Congratulations! twitter.com/lisabrowndraws…

PS that's my husband. https://t.co/CYGNlWYe94
— Lisa Brown (@lisabrowndraws) February 2, 2023

Dr. Maya C. Popa 20 hours ago

From Anne Carson's Orestes by Euripides: Retweeted by Michael S Roth

test Twitter Media - RT @MayaCPopa: From Anne Carson's Orestes by Euripides: https://t.co/gPGC20TxD5

Matt Jordan 1 day ago

Excited to launch my new book from @uvapress with a talk on Feb 21 @penn_state . #Sound #twitterstorians #technology psu.edu/news/bellisari… Retweeted by Michael S Roth

Shapiro Writing Center 22 hours ago

Come see Raquel Gutierrez, Tuesday 2/7, 6pm Albritton 311. twitter.com/raquefella/sta… Retweeted by Michael S Roth

Michael S Roth 21 hours ago

newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2023/01/31/we-…

“We Write a World Around Those Moments”: A Q&A with Mahogany L. Browne, Shapiro-Silverberg Distinguished Writer in Residence

Michael S Roth 22 hours ago

Read @mobrowne students "wrote about trans identity, first-generation American stories, matriarchs, queerness, family structures, belonging, and the possibility of new homes. @wesleyan_u allowed me some time to think about what I would like to do" #WesCreative

Michael S Roth 22 hours ago

“Our message is clear: Education is too important to our students, to the people of Florida, and to the future of our nation to be put at risk by political whim.” chronicle.com/article/desant…

Michael S Roth 24 hours ago

Read @rossmbenjamin⁩ “I came to realize that only by putting aside my demands for clarity and coherence could I do justice to what was strange, disconcerting, and even baffling in Kafka’s writing” via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2023/02/02/opi…

Michael S Roth 24 hours ago

.⁦@NickKristof⁩ “our linguistic contortions..aren’t actually addressing our country’s desperate inequities or achieving progressive dreams but..are creating fuel for right-wing leaders aiming to take the country in the opposite direction” @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2023/02/01/opi…

Michael S Roth 1 day ago

Gora on Rushdie: “political concerns have always been embedded…in the play of Rushdie’s own style, in the irreverent exhilaration of a prose that works by piling one thing upon another, a digressive grammatical plenitude in which there is room for all.” nytimes.com/2023/02/01/boo…

Caitlin Flanagan 2 days ago

To exclude Ta-Nehisi Coates from any high school course on African American studies is to deny American teenagers a rich part of their own heritage. King Baldwin Coates Do these men build on, or challenge each other's ideas? Jesus Christ, America. Save yourself. Retweeted by Michael S Roth