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Learned yesterday that the board of the co-op building we'd applied to live in had turned down our application. Disappointing, especial...

By the way, Debra Granik's "Leave no trace" should have won most of those Oscars, or at least been nominated for them. Have a...

Took a break from New School history to participate in a "futuring" workshop run by our cutting-edge MFA program in Transdiscip...

Neither cheesecake nor carrot cake: authentic Sichuan hotpot starter!

I noticed yesterday that my watch battery had entered that capricious stage that marks the end of its efficacy, stopping for stretches of t...

A somewhat different prospect of New School students, this from documentary footage shot in an economics class in 1938. No hats here.

If I've seemed a little logey the last weeks it's because we're trying to buy a co-op in Manhattan. Countercultural in itself -...

New graffiti on the roof!

Here's food for thought: a map of the United States in 1941 including all our colonial territories. Alaska and Hawai'i were yet to ...

The Zhuangzi course proceeds apace, which means we expansively limp and stagger along with the Course hoping eventually to float and drif...

Hanging out in the New School archives with my co-conspirator J, the university archivist and a grad student in psychology interested in ...

Something very special happened in "Religion and the Anthropocene" today. It went like a tremor through the room - everyone fel...

Just a little past the fiftieth anniversary of the famous blue marble photo of the earth from the surface of the moon, here's an image ...

It could get a little tedious to announce the 100th anniversary of each of the New School's first seven classes, but I have to mention ...

I tried teaching about the Bhagavad Gita today, a first. Many of my colleagues in small religious studies programs have to engage it in w...

One hundred years ago today, the New School for Social Research offered its first course, one of seven offered as a teaser for the  planne...