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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.

21/09/2025

This coincides with the autumn equinox. Happy Fall!

We’re returning to “Climate Demands We Change. Why Aren’t We?,” our Fall 2015 issue, as a complement to the Northern Hemisphere’s transition to autumn, which is consistently and unpredictably impacted by climate change. What does it mean to reconcile changing climates and the human conceptualization of seasons?

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/32790

20/09/2025

Political philosopher Leo Strauss was born on this day in 1899 in Kirchhain, Germany.

A staunch believer in the “Greats” of Western philosophy, like Socrates and Aristotle, Strauss was adamant about the role of political philosophy in both macro political and micro individual life. He wrote “What Is Political Philosophy?,” “On Tyranny,” and other books. In 1938–48he was a professor at the New School, during which period he served on the editorial board of Social Research.

Read one of Strauss’s two contributions to Social Research, “On the Intention of Rousseau,” for Winter 1947: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40982184

19/09/2025

“Whether some version of civility is essential to democratic politics, . . . it is indispensable to institutionalized intellectual life.”—Len Gutkin in “Institutionalized Incivility” for “The Embattled University” (Summer 2025).

Read his article here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/961489

18/09/2025

It’s —you know what that means.

“Explanation” was published in the summer of 1989. Although a shorter issue, its contributors—including Amartya Sen and Daniel M. Hausman—sought to exert “explanatory” forces to different facets of cultural, psychological, political, economic, and literary thought.

🔗: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40043647

17/09/2025

The US Constitution was signed today in Philadelphia in 1787, marking an international bend toward democracy.

To commemorate , we’re returning to Fall 1987, “The Bicentennial of the Constitution,” a collection of responses to, analyses borne from, and contributions to the centuries-long discourse inspired by the signing of the US Constitution.

Read it here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40043640

16/09/2025

Breyten Breytenbach was born on this day in 1939 in Bonnievale, South Africa.

Breytenbach, an artist and activist, was imprisoned for 7 years for his involvement in anti-apartheid work. He worked across several mediums—paint, poetry, prose, playwriting—to critique South Africa’s institutionalized racism.

He wrote “The Long March from Hearth to Heart” for our Spring 1991 issue “Home: A Place in the World.”

You can read it here! https://www.jstor.org/stable/40970632

14/09/2025

It’s day!

We’re returning to “Patience” (Fall 2023). With authors including Cass Sunstein, Noam Yuran, Paul A. Komesaroff, and Rukmini Bhaya Nair, the applicability of patience is scored through economics, poetics, culture, religion, and digital life—a hearty spread of disciplines and analyses.

You can read it here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51243

13/09/2025

Philosopher Alain Locke was born on this day in 1885 in Philadelphia.

Locke is credited with spurring on the Harlem Renaissance with his book “The New Negro,” which ignited a cultural movement. He was the first African American recipient of the Rhodes scholarship. In addition to teaching philosophy at Howard University, he was also extremely active in the art world. For a time, Locke was also a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research.

He wrote a book review of “The Way of the South” by Howard W. Odum for our June 1948 issue.

Read it here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40982215

11/09/2025

Today we’re honoring the victims of the tragedy that occurred on 9/11/2001, which claimed a total of 2,977 lives.

Our issue “Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses” (Winter 2004) was in large part inspired by 9/11 and its aftermath. It includes a discussion on “Politics of Fear After 9/11: Can the Past Inform the Present?” where contributors examine the pervasive domestic fear of terrorism. How was that fear dispelled or used? Was that fear weaponized? In a more macro way, how do we navigate a post–9/11 world?

Read Kenneth Prewitt—among other contributors—here: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2004.0026

10/09/2025

Scientist/paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould was born today in 1941 in New York City.

He developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which in evolutionary biology is the phenomenon where evolution is largely stable except for quick, explosive episodes of rapid change. Gould was a prolific scientist known for his visibility in the public eye, publishing dozens of books and essays about evolution and the natural world.

He provided the keynote address published “In the Company of Animals” (Fall 1995), and you can read it here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40043691

09/09/2025

“Ours is an age that has no patience for persuasion—or the openness and civility upon which it depends. We prefer confrontation, action—ideally direct action—or, as one protester announced to the assembled throng on my campus, ‘escalation until our demands are met.’”—Jonathan Veitch for “The Embattled University,” our most recent issue (Summer 2025).

Read Veitch’s “The Burned-Over District: The Horses of Instruction and the Tygers of Wrath,” chronicling student protests and universities’ respective interventions: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/961491

07/09/2025

For this , we’ll be returning to “Political Theology” (Spring 2013). It’s often been argued that politics and organized religion must coincide—that there cannot be one without the other. And, given the global rise of right-wing Christian ideologies, we’re interested in what our authors had to say.

With contributors from Avishai Margalit to Richard J. Bernstein to Simon Critchley, there’s an array of analyses that target different religions, different politico-religious dogmas, and different critiques of religion.

Check it out here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/28891

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