In an exclusive story, education watchdog Campus Reform noticed a new course on economics at The New School, the private New York university known for its “progressive” approach to education. The course plans to teach students that “(eco)feminism” and “(eco)Marxism” are “viable alternatives” to present-day capitalism.
The course instructor is Bhumika Muchhala, who describes herself as a “feminist and decolonial political economist” on her X biography.
Muchhala also co-hosted a discussion on "climate reparations" last summer, according to her X account.
Reacting to the course description, Family Research Council education expert Meg Kilgannon says students enrolled in the course are future business leaders who are learning more than world economic systems.
“It’s fair to assume that if you're going to teach a course like this,” Kilgannon reasons, “you are more sympathetic to Marxist ideology than you are to capitalist economics."
Kilgannon’s suspicion about the course does describe New School ideology. The university brags online that “radical ideas and progressive solutions” have been part of going back to its founding in the 1920s.
The present-day university teaches approximately 10,200 students on its campus in Greenwich Village, the upper-class neighborhood known for its artists, writers, and musicians. The median income in Greenwich Village is approximately $165,300, more than double the median income for the remainder of New York City, meaning the neighborhood is filled with wealthy communist ideologues.
New School’s website also states students have “academic freedom” to find their own path in the world, a claim that is common on most campuses, but right-leaning college students have learned “academic freedom” typically goes in one direction.
Asked how to counteract the Marxist ideology, Kilgannon says Christian universities should not sit idly by as these future Leninists prepare to enter the corporate word.
"We need to make sure that that our Christian universities are prepared to offer courses that are, of course, the opposite of this ideology,” she says, “so that there is a Christian worldview represented in every place."
