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The New School

Your servant is a member of the faculty of politics of the New School for Social Research. Let no man stare in amaze; for the New School has probably the highest degree of academic freedom to be found in the United States. Dr. Max Lerner, with whom I happen to disagree on a number of considerable points, also is a member of that faculty. For the New School is not caught in the clutch of ideology—not nowadays. When, a few years ago, that eminent Tory in the line of Hume, Professor Michael Oakeshott, was appointed to a chair at the London School of Economics, Mr. R. H. S. Crossman moaned in the pages of the New Statesman: O, Israel, how is thy glory departed!

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The New School

Your servant is a member of the faculty of politics of the New School for Social Research. Let no man stare in amaze; for the New School has probably the highest degree of academic freedom to be found in the United States. Dr. Max Lerner, with whom I happen to disagree on a number of considerable points, also is a member of that faculty. For the New School is not caught in the clutch of ideology—not nowadays. When, a few years ago, that eminent Tory in the line of Hume, Professor Michael Oakeshott, was appointed to a chair at the London School of Economics, Mr. R. H. S. Crossman moaned in the pages of the New Statesman: O, Israel, how is thy glory departed!