I think that "New School" maybe the one that Bob Kerrey runs...but, I may be wrong.
Yeah. It was founded as, and still is, a Marxist institution. Apparently McVain went here to balance his visit to Jerry Falwell's right-wing version of this indoctrination camp.
During WWII it had a "University in Exile" where academics from Fascist countries were made welcome. Academic exiles from Communist paradises, of course, were not.
A typical New School graduate student can bore you to tears with Marx, Hegel, Foucault and Derrida, but has never read Locke, Smith, De Tocqueville, or the Federalist Papers, cannot list three of the ten Amendments in the Bill of Rights, and knows nine ways to roll a joint but cannot start a lawnmower, bait a fishook, or hang a picture on the wall. They're essentially unemployable.
Most of the New School types are too hip to take SATs (not required), but if they did they'd be 350 to 400 points below their "peers" at Harvard and Yale, slightly below those schools' Affirmative Action admissions. Most of them come from parents (or single mothers) that work in government or academia.
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