Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

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.

Michael S. Roth

Boas and His Students

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

Biography &amp; Autobiography

Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education

Reasoning in Rough Times

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

The Anatomy of Grief

De Melancholia

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Critical Theory

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

Religion as We Know It

The Lost Art of Scripture

We Need to Resacralize the World

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal

Religion

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.