Michael S. Roth is president of Wesleyan University. A paperback edition of his Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech and Political Correctness will be published this fall.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
A Philosopher in Hard Times
Samantha Rose Hill traces Hannah Arendt’s intellectual biography....
We Can Do Better: On Richard Rorty’s “Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism”
Michael S. Roth examines Richard Rorty’s “Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism.”...
Boas and His Students
Michael S. Roth explores “Gods of the Upper Air” by Charles King....
Reasoning in Rough Times
Michael S. Roth considers "Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education," the recently published book by Jonathan Marks....
De Melancholia
Michael S. Roth dissects "The Anatomy of Grief," the new book by Dorothy P. Holinger....
We Need to Resacralize the World
Michael S. Roth considers "Religion as We Know It" by Jack Miles and "The Lost Art of Scripture" by Karen Armstrong....
