A few weeks after Roy died, I went back and read Eight Hours For What We Will. It begins with the description of how Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and Modiste Aronstamm opened an ice-cream parlor and lunchroom in Worcester, hoping that the profits…

Here are three things I never heard Roy Rosenzweig say:

1. "I'D LIKE TO HELP, BUT I'M TOO BUSY"

This is perhaps the most important sentence in an academic's vocabulary. As an assistant professor, I get one or two…