“You may be right that if we bend over and tell Chris Ruffo to hit us in the ass, that he won't really hit us that hard next time, because we're being so nice and bend over for him,” says Wesleyan president Michael Roth, discussing the famed anti-DEI crusader in this week’s episode of The Syllabus. “But I actually don't think that’s true.” Syllabus podcast host Mark Oppenheimer gets Roth to open up about legacy preferences, academic bias in college athletics, artificial intelligence, the history of the student, and recent controversies surrounding Claudine Gay and plagiarism in academia.

Guest Bio: Michael S. Roth became president of Wesleyan University in 2007. He has published several books, the most recent being The Student, A Short History.

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