Social Research <noun> : the application of philosophy to social issues.
Vermont <44.2601° N, 72.5754° W> : a rural, mountainous refuge in the United States on the border with Canada, equidistant from Montreal, New York and Boston.
Vermont Center for Social Research <VTSR> : a public center for education and research formed during a crisis in democracy in the United States; a response to the centralization of education into fewer hands and a small number of autocratic institutions.
Focus : social and equitable justice, freedom from tyranny and arbitrary rule, resistance to fascism and nazism; to cultivate the idea of humanity without states and racism, to live without fear, to liberate knowledge from the market, to resist the destruction of nature.
Scope : an international institute offering education beyond the limits of the nation-state; an intellectual and practical network.
History : inspired by the Institute for Social Research which was founded in Frankfurt in 1923, exiled in 1933 to New York.
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