Our next department seminar is Wednesday, December 10 at 11:15am with Cody Cook (Yale University). Cody is presenting "The Short-Run Effects of Congestion Pricing in New York City". (Details below)

Please ask friends and alumni to send a letter to the New School President, Provost, and Board of Trustees to demand that they CUT THE CUTS! To send a letter follow this link: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-t… To learn more go to linktr.ee/aauptns American Association of University Professors UAW Local 7902

FRIENDS ALUMNI SUPPORTERS, please see the quoted tweet for information on a quick and easy way you can support New School faculty, staff, and students by demanding the admin CUT THE CUTS! Thank you very much!!!

The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is now accepting applications for the 2026-27 Visiting Scholars program. For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website: hope.econ.duke.edu/fellowships Come join us!

The New School prez, who is not a social scientist, does not have a PhD & has never been involved in PhD education, wants to remake a storied center of graduate social research into a Silicon Valley Ideology trade school staffed with adjuncts and devoid of research or researchers

Former NSSR Dean and historian of The New School, Judith Friedlander has written to Joel Towers and TNS trustees. She minces no words. “The underlying strategy, as I understand it, for restructuring these programs, is to produce PhD’s primarily with an adjunct faculty.”

“The New School was founded by leading scholars of the day, committed to doing serious research in the social sciences and philosophy while they fiercely defended academic freedom.” A New School saved at the expense of the NSSR would not be saved at all!

If you are going to read one thing about the difficulties, opportunities, and long-term leadership missteps at The New School, make sure it is this piece (whose author I do not know): utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/liner-…

Our first department seminar of the spring semester is Wednesday, February 25 at 11:15am with Joanna Venator (Boston College). Joanna is presenting "Reproductive Policy Shocks and Defensive Investments in Contraception". (Details below)