NYC's New School for Social Research is traditionally identified with a progressive analysis, though how far they may have wandered from this mission in recent years may be worth questioning. The Historical Studies program states that:
"Its mission is to rejuvenate the empirically based social sciences with humanities-inspired, linguistically informed, and pictorially sympathetic approaches, and to provide The New School for Social Research-an institution that represents the most refined European critical tradition-with an archive and a perspective on the world that works "from the outside in," unsettling dominant perspectives with a radical alterity of global pasts."