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The New School · Philosophy

12.0% of The New School's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

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The New School: 12.0% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy courses fall

9%Far left92–100
37%Left75–91
51%Center-left59–74
4%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
57 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

GPHI 6662 · Constituting Revolutionary Government96

Philosophy

This course examines what it might mean to constitute a revolutionary government. Questions to be addressed include: How to analyze the complexity of revolutionary possibility? How to sustain mobilizations and mass movements that seek a…

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NPHI 3550 · Decolonial Thought96

Philosophy

Modernity has a dark side to it, colonialism, without which it would not have come into being. The history of coloniality is that of an imposition of power structures at various levels: economic, epistemic, political, and racial and gender…

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GPHI 6307 · Climate Violence/Climate Justice93

Philosophy

Climate justice is an urgent demand given the disproportionate impacts of climate change and other forms of human-caused environmental degradation on people and places least responsible for causing the problem, in particular poor,…

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Furthest right

None. The New School Philosophy has 57 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

  • Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
The New School · Philosophybias_left_share12.0—476—
Philosophybias_left_share2.72.4 – 3.17,780—
Formula
100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval
Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot
gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats
Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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