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Founded in 1934 by immigrant refugees in New York City. Read Alvin Johnson’s introduction to our first issue:http://www.socres.org/vol01/issue0101.htm

Carrying the torch of academic freedom and mapping the landscape of intellectual thought at the New School for Social Research In 1933, the New School’s first president, Alvin Johnson, with support from philanthropist Hiram Halle and the Rockefeller Foundation, initiated an historic effort to rescue endangered scholars from the shadow of Na**sm in Europe at the brink of WWII. These refugees became

the founding scholars of “The University in Exile,” and constituted what became known as the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, now known as The New School for Social Research. Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Political and Social Sciences was launched in 1934 by these scholars, who held the deep conviction that every true university must have its own distinct public voice.

18/07/2025

Nelson Mandela was born today in 1918. He was a radical anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, and he served as South Africa’s first Black and first democratically elected president.

Although himself not a contributor to Social Research, Mandela’s tireless efforts have been celebrated, invoked, and analyzed by our authors. Today, we’re returning to “South Africa: The Second Decade” (Fall 2005) to honor his activism and democratic resonance.

🔗: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/28844

17/07/2025

Is social science a field isolated from political agendas? Contributor Theodore Porter argues that “the idealization of impersonal objectivity as the model of public rationality, sometimes even at the expense of accuracy, is not necessarily what champions of science have wanted.”

Read “Speaking Precision to Power: The Modern Political Role of Social Science” (Winter 2006) here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/527500/pdf

16/07/2025

“The higher education system has been split open by the engineered decline of public universities. . . . For the general public, the overwhelming consequence has been a loss of faith in the university as a space of knowledge and freedom.”—Supriya Chaudhuri

Read Chaudhuri’s analysis of India’s university system—how on-the-ground experience doesn’t embody India’s social imagination of higher education—in our Summer 2025 issue “The Embattled University.”

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/961487

15/07/2025

Philosopher Jacques Derrida was born 95 years ago today in El Biar, Algeria.

Derrida wrote “Of Grammatology,” “Writing and Difference,” “Specters of Marx,” and several other books and essays. He’s known for assigning language to “deconstruction,” or the theory that examines the inconsistencies and incongruities in linguistic expression.

Derrida contributed “Sending: A Representation” to the issue “Current French Philosophy” (Summer 1982).

🔗: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40970865

14/07/2025

Today marks 236 years since revolutionaries stormed the Bastille Prison in Paris—igniting the French Revolution.

To commemorate today’s importance, we’re returning to our Spring 1989 issue, “The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity.” Contributors include Immanuel Wallerstein, Theda Skocpol, Eric Hobsbawm, and Charles Tilly.

Read here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40043646

13/07/2025

For this , we’re returning to our Winter 2022 issue, “Photography and Film as Evidence.”

What does it mean that a majority of the West has access to a cell phone which can capture “objective reality” through videos, pictures, and recordings? What is “reality” if—and when—it’s taken out of context? In our Winter 2022 issue, essayist David Levi Strauss used historic examples of recorded evidence, like JFK’s assassination in 1963, to analyze the piecemeal nature of “recorded reality.”

🔗: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/877236

11/07/2025

Harold Bloom, often dubbed the “most notorious literary critic in America,” was born on this day in 1930 in East Bronx, New York.

Bloom, a long-time professor at Yale, was known for his defense of the Western literary canon. He published The Western Canon and How to Read and Why, among several other influential works.

He contributed “Death and Native Strain in American Poetry” in our Fall 1972 issue, “Death in American Experience.”

🔗: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40043608

10/07/2025

In honor of French writer Marcel Proust’s 154th birthday, we’re returning to Serge Moscovici’s article from Spring 1986, “The Dreyfus Affair, Proust, and Social Psychology,” in which he uses themes from Proust’s novels, like Remembrance of Things Past, to analyze the Dreyfus Affair—a historical event in France marked by antisemitism and scandal.

🔗: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40970404

09/07/2025

Franz Boas, the “father of American anthropology,” was born on this day in 1858 in Minden, Germany.

Perhaps best known for his theory of cultural relativism, Boas advocated for a Western “deemphasis” of cultures—that is, cultures should be understood within their own contexts and norms, and they shouldn’t only be held up to a Western standard.

Read Boas’s only publication in Social Research, “The Diffusion of Cultural Traits,” from fall 1937.

🔗: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40981562

08/07/2025

How are democratic values understood, upheld, and protected within academic contexts? In our most recent issue (Summer 2025), philosopher Judith Butler weighs in on the boundaries between academics’ intra- and extramural speech and different protections given to each by universities.

🔗: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/961486

06/07/2025

For this , we return to our Spring 2016 issue, “The Fear of Art.”

Contributor David Freedberg argues that “fear of art and love of art are two sides of the same coin.” How is art both yielded and suppressed—by democracies and totalitarian regimes alike?
In addition to venerable scholars like Freedberg and Boris Groys, the issue features artists and activists like Shirin Neshat, Chaw Ei Thein, Nikahang Kowsar, and Ai Weiwei.
🔗: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/33649

05/07/2025

Most-read articles in June were, unsurprisingly, from our latest issue, "The Embattled University." Here's the top 5 list from last month:
📌 Lisa Anderson, “From Pursuing Truth to Managing Stress: The Costs and Consequences of the Therapeutic Turn in American Universities” (Summer 2025)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/961483

📌 Judith Butler, “Academic Freedom in a Time of Destruction: Reconsidering Extramural Speech” (Summer 2025)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/961486

📌 Nick Haslam and Melanie J. McGrath, “The Creeping Concept of Trauma” (Fall 2020, reprinted Spring 2024)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/923123

📌 Albena Azmanova, “Free Speech or Safe Speech: The Neoliberal University's False Dilemma” (Summer 2025)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/961484

📌 Len Gutkin, “Institutionalized Incivility” (Summer 2025)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/961489

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