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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.

16/09/2026

in 1939 was South African writer, poet, and anti-apartheid activist Breyten Breytenbach. His works embedded searing political critiques and opposition to the ruling regime, leading to years of solitary confinement and exile.

In the 1991 essay "The Long March from Hearth to Heart," he reflected on Ahmad Baba, the 16th-century Timbuktu Islamic scholar exiled across the Sahara by Moroccan conquerors, exploring themes of displacement and resilience.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40970632

15/09/2026

: In 1935 N**i Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws that stripped Jews of citizenship and institutionalized antisemitism, taking yet another step toward the “final solution.”

Henri Zuckier argued in “The Twisted Road to Genocide” (published in 1994) that the Holocaust was the self-seduction of a nation down a twisted, psychological road to brutality.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40971039

13/09/2026

Alain Locke, in 1885 in Philadelphia, was a pioneering African American scholar, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, and a prominent philosophy professor who profoundly shaped the Harlem Renaissance.

In our Summer 1948 issue, Locke reviewed sociologist Howard Odum’s book “The Way of the South,” critiquing its flawed solutions to racial migration and calling for genuine democratic leadership and integrated in*******al collaboration.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40982215

11/09/2026

On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we reflect on George Kateb’s "A Life of Fear" as we remember all the lives lost.

Kateb examines the roots of tragedy and warns against the creeping tyranny of state violence and torture.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/527365/pdf

10/09/2026

Celebrating Stephen Jay Gould, in 1941 in New York. A paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, Gould coauthored the theory of punctuated equilibrium and popularized science to millions. He was a professor at Harvard University and worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

In his 1995 keynote at "In the Company of Animals," he reflected on Robert Burns's poem "To A Louse" to explore human perspectives on invertebrates, as well as nature and humanity.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40971110

09/09/2026

Death isn’t the end anymore—at least, not with our technology.

In Fall 2026’s “Disrupting Death,” guest editors Joseph E. Davis, William Hasselberger, and Paul Scherz go through how grieftech and emerging tech are rewriting mourning, memory, and the human condition.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/1000062

07/09/2026

Is work a divine curse or our highest expression?

This , explore our complicated relationship with labor, leisure, and human potential with Alan Ryan’s “Keeping Busy.”

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/527402/pdf

06/09/2026

Why do we still cling to the idea that grief is private and meant to be overcome?

On the heels of our just-published issue “Disrupting Death,” we revisit philosopher Burkhard Liebsch’s article from 2016 in which he challenges the “quadripartite dogma” of mourning, arguing that grief can instead be a powerful political force that connects us to the world.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/631161

05/09/2026

It’s a new month. Let’s see what our readers favored in the last month of summer.

📍 Gina Schouten, “The Philosophy and Politics of Liberal Feminism” (Spring 2025) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/956295

📍 Ellen Schrecker, “McCarthyism: Political Repression and the Fear of Communism” (Winter 2004) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/527373

📍 Jerome Bruner, “Life as Narrative” (Spring 1987, republished Fall 2004) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/527352

📍 Regina Rini, “What Socrates Didn't Write” (Summer 2026) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/992283

📍 Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, “Doing Politics with Animals” (Winter 2023) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916348

03/09/2026

How do philosophy and cognitive science tackle the mysteries of the mind?

This goes back to Spring 1993’s “Mind,” with John R. Searle on consciousness, Hubert L. Dreyfus on intentionality, and more.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40043662

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