In its present form the New School is indeed new: It is a recent amalgam of a graduate program called the New School for Social Research with two conservatory-like schools (the Parsons School of Design and the Mannes College of Music) and several less well-known entities.

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Bernstein, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, in The New York Times.

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