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The Enigma of Rescue

On a recent history of The New School for Social Research

July 30, 2020 • by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

The New School for Social Research holds a story of rescue dear. This is the tale of how its co-founder and first president, the economist Alvin Johnson, climbed a mountain of correspondence and paperwork to save scores of German scholars after Nazism’s rise to power in the early 1930s. Johnson ...

On James Baldwin and The New School

What It Means to be a Progressive University

December 28, 2017 • by Julia Foulkes

And it is the local experts who field questions about Baldwin. The most recent request was from the university’s marketing and communications department to confirm that he had, in fact, been a student. The Baldwin estate had agreed that the university could quote him on its website but the estate ...

Exile as Haven

On The New School Dorm Room Doors Vandalized with Swastikas

November 14, 2016 • by Julia Foulkes

Those of us at The New School received news on Saturday that dorm room doors had been vandalized with swastikas. The president has acted swiftly, calling it a hate crime and enacting a zero tolerance policy for such actions. Since this may be an act of students -- entry to ...

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The Enigma of Rescue

On a recent history of The New School for Social Research

On James Baldwin and The New School

What It Means to be a Progressive University

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